Campaigns and petitions to end trophy hunting of threatened wildlife species in South Africa.
Although Nikela is not an activist organization we do share information on issues we in principle agree with. One such issue is trophy or canned hunting of lion, rhino, leopard, elephant and any and all wildlife species.
We are for wild-life not wild-death!
To join the campaign against canned hunting please consider this from Bev with the Campaign Against Canned Hunting [CACH]:
From Bev with the Campaign Against Canned Hunting:
Melissa Bachman is one of the most destructive people I have had the displeasure to come across.
She and others like her have systematically destroyed nature at its finest and have the cheek to sit over the victim with stupid grins on their faces. They are the worst kind of persons, thinking that they have the right to take a life for fun. They have killed more wildlife than I have seen in my 65 years of life. What a disgrace.
In March 15th – 2014 -, there will be a coordinated protest campaign in certain cities around the world to protest the failure of conservation authorities to ban canned hunting. If the march is in your city please go. Keep watching here for details.
You can also go to these petition sites and sign:
https://www.causes.com/v2actions/1760085-a-petition-to-cites-secretariat
Lastly below is a draft letter (please make it personal if you have time) we would like you to send to the government addresses listed below. It is time that we, as caring individuals, make ourselves heard. Lets make them hear us.
All the best
Bev.
CACH
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Sample Letter
To whom it may concern.
We refer to your failure to ban the despicable practice of canned hunting. Canned Hunting is any hunt where the target animal is unfairly prevented from escaping the hunter either by physical constraints such as fencing or by mental constraints such as being hand reared and habituated to humans. It follows that any hunt of a captive bred animal is a canned hunt. It also follows that virtually all sport and trophy hunting in South Africa is canned to a greater or lesser extent.
Quite apart from the unacceptable cruelty which is the business model of the whole industry, is the threat to wild lion populations from the growing lion bone trade to Asia.
We ask you to take meaningful steps to bring this sordid industry to an end before it wrecks our legitimate tourism industry, and causes regional extinction of wild lion populations.
Canned hunting is an outdated, cruel blood sport that lacks ethical sportsmanship and does not foster conservation of endangered species in the wild. It most definitely reflects poorly on our culture and should be considered a crime against society, humanity and nature. To shoot a confined, tame animal and call it recreational hunting and conservation is simply ludicrous; this is not science, this is not conservation, this is not species survival. It is wanton destruction.
Kind regards
{Your Name}
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Send to
These are all the emails from below so you can copy and paste for your convenience. I have left the list so you can see who your emails are going to.
okumalo@environment.gov.za;;mtjiane@environment.gov.za; permits@kznwildlife.com; sharronh@kznncs.org.za; jan@mtpa.co.za; nel@dteea.fs.gov.za; boing@dteea.fs.gov.za; lydia.onsongo@gauteng.gov.za; cscholtz@half.ncape.gov.za; cites@ledet.gov.za; noluthando.bam@deaet.ecape.gov.za; bdiole@nwpg.gov.za; j.donaldson@sanbi.org.za; smeintjes@environment.gov.za; pmosana@environment.gov.za; okumalo@environment.gov.za; john.scanlon@cites.org; marceil.yeater@cites.org; ben.jvanrensburg@cites.org; david.morgan@cites.org;
South Africa
Management Authorities / Autoridades Administrativas / Organes de gestion
1a)…Ms Olga Kumalo
Department of Environmental Affairs
Email: okumalo@environment.gov.za
1b)…Mr Mpho Tjiane
Department of Environmental Affairs
Email: mtjiane@environment.gov.za
Scientific Authorities / Autoridades Científicas / Autorités scientifiques
1)….The Chief Executive: CapeNature
Fauna, Flora, CITES & Hunting
NO CANNED HUNTING TAKES PLACE IN THE W.C. PROVINCE
Web: http://www.capenature.co.za
2)….The Chief Executive Officer
KwaZulu Natal Wildlife
Email: permits@kznwildlife.com; sharronh@kznncs.org.za
3)….The Chief Executive Officer
Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency
Email: jan@mtpa.co.za;
4)….The Head of Department
Free State Department of Tourism, Environmental and Economic Affairs
Email: nel@dteea.fs.gov.za; boing@dteea.fs.gov.za
5)….The Head of Department
Gauteng Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Environment
Email: lydia.onsongo@gauteng.gov.za
6)….The Head of Department
Northern Cape Department of Tourism, Environment and Conservation
Email: cscholtz@half.ncape.gov.za; dpaulse@half.ncape.gov.za
7)….The Head of Department
Limpopo Department of Economic Development, Environment and Tourism
Email: cites@ledet.gov.za
8)….The Head of Department
Eastern Cape Department of Economic Affairs, Environment and Tourism
Email: noluthando.bam@deaet.ecape.gov.za
9)….The Head of Department
North West Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Environment
Email: bdiole@nwpg.gov.za;
All correspondence to the Scientific Authority should be addressed to
10)…Department of Environmental Affairs
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11)…Chair of the Scientific Authority
Mr John Donaldson
Email: j.donaldson@sanbi.org.za
Enforcement Authorities / Autoridades de observancia / Autorités de lutte contre la fraude
1)….Ms Sonja Meintjes
Department of Environmental Affairs
Email: smeintjes@environment.gov.za
2)….Mr Phillemon Mosana
Department of Environmental Affairs
Email: pmosana@environment.gov.za
CITES INTERNATIONAL.
CITES Secretary General – John Scanlon –(The Big Boss)
Email: john.scanlon@cites.org
Chief, Legal Affairs & Trade Policy – Marceil Yeater –
Email: marceil.yeater@cites.org
Chief, Enforcement Support – Ben Janse van Rensburg –(Hmmm, South African???)
Email: ben.jvanrensburg@cites.org
Chief, Scientific Services – David Morgan –
Email: david.morgan@cites.org
Thanks for getting involved! Let’s get more people understanding why it’s better to shoot with a camera and not a gun.
Thanks for posting this Margrit. Many cities all over the world are now involved in the Global March for Lions on 15th March, and more are joining as time goes by. Looks like it is going to be a success.