PRETORIA, South Africa, August 17, 2018 (ENS) – South Africa has opened hunting season on leopards after two years of grace. The Department of Environmental Affairs has given permission to shoot two ...

Wiese told Kruger Sightings that she was with her uncle and two friends just after breakfast when nearby vervet monkeys started making alarm calls, indicating a predator was nearby. “Singita's staff ...

WASHINGTON— Animal protection and conservation groups sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for failing to propose stricter protections for African leopards under the U.S. Endangered Species ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that all leopards may qualify for “endangered” status under the Endangered Species Act. The decision comes in response to a legal petition ...

Holidays to shoot endangered leopards are being sold online for up to £116,000, The Independent can reveal – while a long-promised UK ban on trophy hunt imports remains stalled. Big-game tour ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, March 29, 2022 (ENS) – The High Court of the Western Cape Friday ruled against South Africa’s Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment on its 2022 hunting and ...

Hunters who have a lot of money will not target “Big 5” game animals in South Africa. The ban is temporary and it comes a year after Cecil the Lion was killed in Zimbabwe. The leopard hunt ban will be ...

A research team led by Dr. Samual Williams of the Department of Anthropology at Durham University in the UK conducted a long-term trap survey from 2012 to 2016 in order to study the leopard population ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - For the first time in decades, hunters with deep pockets cannot target the so-called "Big 5" game animals in South Africa because the government has imposed a ban on leopard ...

Talk about an intimidating breakfast guest. A leopard recently wandered into the restaurant of a luxury hotel in South Africa while hunting its breakfast. Erika Wiese, 39, took a video of the visitor ...