The Endangered Wildlife Trust’s Wildlife in Trade Programme aims to raise awareness of wildlife laws in the domestic pet transporting industry and ensure that domestic pet transporters and other operators across South Africa understand the legal requirements for transporting wildlife.
Erratic climate patterns and long drought seasons in Southcentral Uganda have seen crops dry up and wither. In addition to this, farmers also face the crop damage by Endangered Grey Crowned Cranes.
Integrated farming promotes the responsible use of natural resources and addressing challenges using local capacity. After a recent knowledge exchange in the Cedarberg, communal farmers confidently took the lead identifying local issues, formulating intervention measures, mobilizing resources and capacity, and implementing relevant solutions.
One of the by-products of the Covid-19 pandemic was much lower levels of human activity related to lockdowns enforced in many countries to reduce the spread of the disease. This decrease in human activity has been named the “anthropause”.