Current Press Releases
SOUTH AFRICA’S CONTROVERSIAL SALE OF IVORY TO CHINA SPELLS TOTAL DISASTER FOR AFRICA’S ELEPHANTS
16 July 2008
Click HERE for more. ARA STATEMENT ON SHOOTING OF KWAZULU-NATAL HIPPO
15 July 2008
Click HERE for more. ARA POSITION ON CAPTURE AND RELOCATION OF VAGRANT HIPPO IN KWAZULU-NATAL SUBSEQUENT TO ALLEGED
HIPPO-RELATED DEATH
13 July 2008
Click HERE for more. ELEPHANTS FACE BLEAK AND CRUEL FUTURE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
Click HERE for more.ANIMAL RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS WILL TAKE TOUGHER STANCE IF GOVERNMENT DISAPPOINTS ON ELEPHANT ISSUE
Click HERE for more.THE AUCTIONING OFF OF 50 WHITE RHINOS: SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL PARKS DOUBLESPEAK
Click HERE for more.Examine what you eat on World Day for Animals: October 4
Click HERE for more.ANIMAL ACTIVISTS WITH BLOOD-COVERED HANDS CONVERGE OUTSIDE CITES MEETING TO PROTEST IVORY TRADE
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Startling Findings of Animal Rights Africa Report on the Poaching of Wild Animals in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia
The illegal killing of wild animals poses an urgent threat to their survival and involves enormous cruelty, untold suffering, pain and death for individual animals, family groups and social networks. The raison d’etre for this report was to get an overview of the current scale of illegal killing of wild life in South Africa and the southern African region more broadly.Read More
South Africans Oppose “Canned Hunts”
of Wild Animals
LONDON-New polling data from South Africa unequivocally confirms national support for banning
so-called canned hunts, where customers pay huge sums to slaughter captive bred lions
confined in enclosures.Read More
Press Release Archive
Animal Rights and Animal Welfare
03 January 2007
That the National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals NSPCA)
and the Animal Anti-Cruelty League (AACL) felt the need to issue a joint press release on
January 2007Read More
Hunting of Large Predators
14 December 2006
Animal Rights Africa (ARA) calls for an immediate, national moratorium on all hunting of
]large predators and thick skinned mammals . . . Read More
THUKELA ELEPHANTS FIND SANCTUARY AT LAST
14 November 2006
Nine African elephants condemned to death earlier this year have finally made the long journey by road
to a safe haven in the Limpopo Province.Read More


