Scientists believe that African leopard populations are plummeting due to habitat loss, prey depletion, persecution by people, poaching for the illegal skin trade and unsustainable trophy hunting. The ...

However, it has a much darker history. Trophy hunters in the 19th century considered elephants, buffalo, leopards, lions, and rhinoceros the most sought-after animals in Africa due to the difficulty ...

But trophy hunting today, especially of the so-called big five in Africa (elephant, lion, leopard, rhino, and Cape buffalo), brings with it a larger set of moral and financial questions.

Wild populations of African leopards are thought to be declining because of habitat loss and fragmentation, human persecution, illegal wildlife trade, ceremonial use of skins, prey decline and poorly ...

Trophy hunting is effectively the legal ... conservation is not flying to South Africa and shooting a rhino, shooting a leopard, standing over a giraffe. "If you’re going to come to Africa ...

Though not common in Kenya, trophy hunting is a big issue in South Africa. New research reveals that South African citizens and international tourists want to see an end to trophy hunting ...

South Africa’s No 1 amateur Astin Wade Arthur is only too aware of what’s at stake this week with the playing of the R&A Africa Amateur Championship which gets under way at Leopard Creek from ...