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1 month ago | southafricatoday.net | IQ Score |Philip Jacobson

Police in Indonesia charged at least 11 people in the month of March with wildlife crimes after a tiger was butchered in Riau province and alleged traffickers were found with body parts in the semiautonomous province of Aceh. In West Sumatra province, conservation officials successfully trapped a young female tiger whose leg had previously been amputated, likely in a snare trap. Sumatran tigers are a critically endangered subspecies of tiger and fewer than 400 are believed to remain in the wild.

Feb 5, 2025 | southafricatoday.net | IQ Score |Latoya Abulu

For the past decade, Jimmy Mahachi has advocated for his community’s right to water and the preservation of the Cleveland Dam wetland, a peri-urban wetland in the Zimbabwean capital Harare. The wetland is threatened by sand mining, development and the overexploitation of water resources. Some residents of the New Mabvuku suburb where Mahachi lives haven’t had running water for more than 30 years, forcing them to collect water from unprotected and even contaminated sources.

Feb 4, 2025 | southafricatoday.net | IQ Score |Latoya Abulu

While human rights principles have advanced, there is insufficient clarity or political will in some quarters of the conservation sector to translate them into practice.