Emmanuel Koro
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Sadc yet to act upon Cites ivory trade ban
Koro is a Johannesburg-based international award-winning environmental journalist who writes on environment and development issues in Africa.
By Emmanuel Koro
Oct. 28, 2022
What’s wrong with Cites?
Nothing at all, if judged by other UN agencies.
By Emmanuel Koro
Dec. 8, 2022
What’s wrong with the UN’s Cites?
It isn’t, but the issue enhances the NGOs’ money-raising capabilities.
By Emmanuel Koro
Dec. 9, 2022
Wildlife communities’ voices must be heard
It is here where the world is given a new lens to catch a rare glimpse of the little-known, stunning and mind-set-changing international hunting benefits.
By Emmanuel Koro
Jan. 12, 2023
Feature: Why trophy hunting will never stop in Africa despite opposition
As along as international hunting continues to bring socio-economic and conservation benefits to Africa, nothing will stop it
By Emmanuel Koro
Feb. 23, 2023
Inside Botswana communities’ 21st century international hunting windfall
Without it, Botswana hunting communities would have never known what it feels like to democratically determine how to meet their own socio-economic needs.
By Emmanuel Koro
Mar. 16, 2023
Is Sadc ready to unlock wildlife’s trade value?
Instituting new legal means of trading ivory would create opportunities to put poachers, illegal ivory trade syndicates and the animal right groups fundraising industry out of business.
By Emmanuel Koro
Apr. 6, 2023
Feature: Camilla gets it right on carrying ivory rod — anti-ivory use groups don’t
In an interview, Botswana Chieftainess Rebecca Banika said, “It’s indeed a good move for the Queen of England to show support for the need to use wildlife products such as ivory.
By Emmanuel Koro
Apr. 21, 2023
Will Queen Camilla buckle under pressure from anti-ivory activists?
“We find the demand by the animals rights groups that Queen Camilla should not use an historic ivory rod as totally unreasonable,” said chairman of the Southern Africa Community Leaders Network
By Emmanuel Koro
Apr. 29, 2023
Feature: Sadc loses iconic conservationist
In an interview this week, former Campfire chairpersonand president of the Hwange Painted Dog Project, Jerry Gotora said Jonga succumbed to prostate cancer.
By Emmanuel Koro
May. 11, 2023
Is hunting threatening Botswana elephants?
The Botswana rural communities recently said that “hunting is the largest and booming industry that we have ever known in the 21st century.”
By Emmanuel Koro
Jun. 2, 2023
FEATURE: International hunting benefits wildlife-producer communities
Kamona said the fact that wildlife roams freely in Tanzania’s wildlife-producer communities indicated that it’s safe.
By Emmanuel Koro
Jun. 27, 2023
Feature: Big pharmaceutical companies exposed for theft, high prices
This background suggests that Harris’ issues with Novartis should be taken very seriously by the US government.
By Emmanuel Koro
Jul. 24, 2023
Hunting benefits truths can collapse anti-hunting groups
They want to review it at committee stage where it is now.
By Emmanuel Koro
Jul. 28, 2023
When lobbying and the laws work against good governance
In Namibia’s Anabeb Community, wildlife ‘told’ the local residents to abandon cattle production. There, the benefits from wildlife are greater than those from cattle.
By Emmanuel Koro
Aug. 18, 2023
‘Artificial ivory opens another way to end ban on ivory trade’
The same can occur for this new artificial ivory — a chemically compounded material spun on a 3-D printer into the shape of an elephant’s tusk or a specific product design.
By Emmanuel Koro
Sep. 22, 2023
Global conservation cowards harming people and wildlife
Much of that sympathy is directed towards Africa’s big five and nothing raises the level of sympathy more than opposing the culling of elephants.
By Emmanuel Koro
Oct. 6, 2023
Life-changing international hunting benefits the world can’t ignore
Indeed, this is what sustainable development is all about — when both the environment, including wildlife and the people’s wellbeing is simultaneously and continuously improving.
By Emmanuel Koro
Oct. 13, 2023
Life-changing international hunting benefits the world cannot ignore
Where there was no access to basic health, international hunting revenue has supported the construction of Masoka Clinic.
By Emmanuel Koro
Oct. 13, 2023
Botswana communities’ hunting benefits inspire SA counterparts
In this remarkable example of human-wildlife coexistence in Botswana, animals are also constructing respectable senior citizen homes.
By Emmanuel Koro
Nov. 17, 2023
Zambia’s cancellation of hunting tender faces community pushback
Almost nowhere in pro-international hunting and wildlife-rich Southern Africa has a senior government official ever single-handedly cancelled a legal and approved hunting tender.
By Emmanuel Koro
Dec. 21, 2023
‘Come hunt in Kalahari Desert’
Mr Miaennies said that the Khomani San Community is so underdeveloped and lacks one of the most basic necessities for humans — clean drinking water.
By Emmanuel Koro
Jan. 12, 2024
SA political parties ignore rural communities’ needs
The communities’ demands for benefits from natural resources are supported by South Africa’s constitution.
By Emmanuel Koro
Mar. 8, 2024
Spotlight on South Africa’s democracy
“For South African citizens, however, the equation has evolved in a totally different way.
By Emmanuel Koro
May. 10, 2024
Kruger Park neighbours to start hunting
Besides bringing comparatively more money to a hunting community, the single international hunter also has a comparatively far less impact on the environment.
By Emmanuel Koro
Aug. 9, 2024
Successful technique used in SA now helping Harris to defeat Trump
He hopes everyone named Harris will cast his or her ballot for their “cousin”.
By Emmanuel Koro
Nov. 1, 2024
Where villagers are eternally grateful for international hunting benefits
Dube urged those advocating for a ban on international hunting to consider taking Hwange’s elephants to their own countries.
By Emmanuel Koro
Dec. 13, 2024
Should humans focus only on saving big wild animals from extinction?
That is shameful in light of what is coming in terms of population demands and tourism opportunities.
By Emmanuel Koro
Apr. 17, 2025
Cites, spare a thought for creepy crawlies
Each of the four was sentenced to a fine of US$7 700 or a year in prison for violating Kenya’s wildlife conservation laws.
By Emmanuel Koro
May. 23, 2025
Where wildlife populations ‘vote’ for international hunting
This argument is at the heart of a must-watch video documentary, The Last Wild Islands, produced by South Africa-born United States-based Robert Kroger.
By Emmanuel Koro
May. 29, 2025
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