Current Press Releases
HUNTING IN SOUTH AFRICA: A BLOODY MESS
Date : 05 Jul 2010Animal Rights Africa (ARA) has just released a key report which takes an in-depth look at hunting activities in South Africa...
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LONLINESS AND CAPTIVITY ALMOST CERTAINLY KILLED ZOO GORILLA HOBBIT
Date : 14 Dec 2009Sad-eyed Hobbit, who was 26-year old when he died, was a male Western Lowland Silverback gorilla who arrived in South Africa in 1988 from the Jersey Zoo in the UK on a long-term loan agreement with the National Zoological Gardens in Pretoria. ...
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THINK OF THE BULL TOM0RROW
Date : 04 Dec 2009Animal Rights Africa (ARA) is extremely disappointed that the Judge ruled against us. We are also saddened and frustrated that the Respondents refused to allow Animal Rights Africa (ARA) to monitor and document the ukweshwama ritual. ...
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FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS AFRICA IT IS ABOUT THE BULL AND INCLUSIVE JUSTICE
Date : 02 Dec 2009Animal Rights Africa (ARA) is heartened by the decision yesterday of the Pietermaritzburg High Court Judge, Nic van der Reyden, to postpone until this coming Friday 4th December, his decision on whether or not to issue a court order against the bare-handed ritual killing of a bull at the Zulu First Fruits Festival at the Royal Kraal in KwaZulu-Natal this coming Saturday, December 5.
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MEDIATION ATTEMPT SNUB BY ZULU KING MEANS UKWESHWAMA COURT ACTION CONTINUES
Date : 25 Nov 2009The legal action launched by Animal Rights Africa (ARA) in the Pietermaritzburg High Court yesterday in an attempt to obtain an interim interdict to halt the bare-handed killing of a bull at the Zulu royal kraal...
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ANIMAL RIGHTS AFRICA GOES TO HIGH COURT OVER UKWESHWAMA RITUAL
Date : 22 Nov 2009Animal Rights Africa (ARA) will be going to the High Court in Pietermaritzburg on the 24th November 2009 to try and end the extremely cruel Ukweshwama ritual...
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ANIMAL RIGHTS ORGANISATION APPEALS TO PUBLIC FOR HELP TO STOP KILLINGS ON ROBBEN ISLAND
Date : 02 November 2009Animal Rights Africa (ARA) is outraged at the illegitimate killing of the deer, rabbits and guinea fowl, which have populated the Island for centuries and form an integral part of its heritage.
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SPECIAL REPORT ON RHINOS IN SOUTH AFRICA
Date : 31 August 2009In the past few months a war of words has erupted between SANParks and Animal Rights Africa over the management of rhinoceroses in South Africa's national and provincial Parks and on private land.
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ARA RESPONSE TO RECENT STATEMENT BY DEPUTY POLICE MINISTER FIKILE MBALULA COMPARING ANIMALS TO CRIMINALS
Date : 25 August 2009Animal Rights Africa (ARA), is grossly saddened at the recent comments made by Deputy Police Minister, Fikile Mbalula, at a meeting of Community Police Forum (CPF) members and police station heads from across the Western Cape to discuss concerns about crime.
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SOUTH AFRICAN ANIMAL ORGANISATIONS UNITE AND CALL FOR BETTER ANIMAL PROTECTION LEGISLATION AND ENFORCEMENT
Date : 17 August 2009“Violence begets violence”, delegates were told at the ‘South African Law Review Consultation Workshop’ held at the Chalsty Conference Centre, Law School, at the University of the Witwatersrand on 13 August 2009.
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RHINOS, RED HERRINGS AND RUSES: ARA RESPONDS TO SANPARKS CEO
Date : 16 July 2009"Red herrings and spin-doctoring" is how Animal Rights Africa (ARA) spokesperson, Michele Pickover, reacted to claims made by SANParks CEO, Dr David Mabunda, during a media briefing in Pretoria on July 14, 2009.
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RHINOS UNDER SIEGE IN SOUTH AFRICA: PUBLIC CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE MORATORIUM ON HUNTING AND TRADE
Date : 14 July 2009"Appalled", was the response from Animal Rights Africa (ARA) to the news that SANParks is selling hundreds of Rhino and other animals from the Kruger National Park and allowing hunters to kill Kruger animals by actively promoting and allowing hunting along Kruger's ever-increasing porous borders.
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CANNED PREDATORS: MASSIVE ANIMAL WELFARE CATASTROPHE PREDICTED
Date : 15 June 2009There is a misconception that the recent case lost by the South African Predator Breeders Association means the death knell of the canned hunting and breeding industry.
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SWINE FLU AND FACTORY FARMS: THE LINK
Date : 01 May 2009As the world stands on high alert in anxious anticipation of a Swine Flu pandemic that started in Mexico and could literally affect billions of people worldwide in a matter of months, we cannot ignore the legitimate discourse linking Swine Flu with the indefensible ills of factory farming.
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SOUTH AFRICA’S SHAME: SECRET ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION
Date : 19 April 2009April 24th is World Day for Animals in Laboratories (WDAIL). Every year on the 24th of April worldwide attention is drawn to commemorate the suffering and abuse of animals used in research laboratories, agricultural facilities and the development of arms and other weapons.
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GOVERNMENT CONSERVATION AGENCIES BLAMED FOR MONKEY BUSINESS
Date : 14 April 2009"Very disturbing and requiring urgent intervention and collaboration on the part of the provincial nature conservation authorities, animal rights and welfare agencies and national government", was how Animal Rights Africa (ARA) responded to this week's MNET's Carte Blanche expose of living conditions and alleged neglect and abuse of animals at Monkey Town situated near Somerset West in the Western Cape.
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ANIMAL PROTECTIONISTS, CONSERVATIONISTS AND CIVIL SOCIETY UP IN ARMS AT VAN SCHALKWYK'S APPARENT CONTEMPT FOR PRESCRIBED PUBLIC CONSULTATION PROCESSES
Date : 2 Feb 2009Stakeholders who represent the views of many people, both locally and internationally, concerned about the continued use of brutal wildlife trapping and killing methods in South Africa were left shell-shocked after it became apparent that the national Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism's (DEAT) consultation process for the so-called 'Damage Causing Animals" Norms and Standards, was a sham and fundamentally flawed.
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CITES SANCTIONED SALE OF 51 TONNES OF SOUTH AFRICAN IVORY A DISGRACE
Date : 6 Nov 2008South Africa's largest and most vocal animal rights organization, Animal Rights Africa (ARA), says that the CITES sanctioned ivory auction to be held in South Africa on November 6, 2008 signals a deeply tragic future for elephants globally and is a shame filled event for South Africans who are pursuing a more just , more principled and more caring future.
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SILENCES AND SPINDOCTORING: TRYING TO ACCESS GOVERNMENT INFORMATION ON ELEPHANTS IN SOUTH AFRICA
Date : 22 Oct 2008The implementation of the controversial Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEAT) legislative policy on elephants (the National Norms and Standards on the Management of Elephants in South Africa) which was promulgated eight months ago, has been put to the test by Animal Rights Africa (ARA), who have just completed a two-month investigative report.
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HERITAGE BRAAI DAY = SUPPORT FOR OPPRESSION AND SUFFERING
22 September 2008Animal Rights Africa is appalled that the National Heritage Council and Archbishop Tutu are promoting Braai Day as a way of celebrating our heritage. Tutu is the patron of Braai4Heritage and apparently when asked what are vegetarians supposed to do on National Braai Day later this month he replied "They can stand and watch". The practice of the ‘braai' represented in many countries around the globe, barbeque in America, 'barbi" in Australia, etc, has long been a cultural and social tradition primarily associated with camaraderie. Unfortunately, this ritual is also associated with the cruel and unnecessary slaughter of animals.
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SCANDALOUS CANNED HUNTING STATISTICS REVEAL THAT MINISTER VAN SCHALKWYK IS GUILTY OF DOUBLESPEAK
17 September 2008A recent written reply by the Director-General of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEAT) to a question put in Parliament by the Democratic Alliance has once again sounded the alarm on the canned hunting industry in South Africa.
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SOUTH AFRICA'S CONTROVERSIAL SALE OF IVORY TO CHINA SPELLS TOTAL DISASTER FOR AFRICA'S ELEPHANTS
16 July 2008Click HERE for more.
ARA STATEMENT ON SHOOTING OF KWAZULU-NATAL HIPPO
15 July 2008Click HERE for more.
ARA POSITION ON CAPTURE AND RELOCATION OF VAGRANT HIPPO IN KWAZULU-NATAL SUBSEQUENT TO ALLEGED HIPPO-RELATED DEATH
13 July 2008Click HERE for more.
TRADING IN MISERY: THE SOUTH AFRICAN VIVISECTION INDUSTRY'S EXPLOITATION OF INDIGENOUS PRIMATES
04 June 2008Click HERE for more.
ELEPHANTS FACE BLEAK AND CRUEL FUTURE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
25 February June 2008Click HERE for more.
ANIMAL RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS WILL TAKE TOUGHER STANCE IF GOVERNMENT DISAPPOINTS ON ELEPHANT ISSUE
22 February 2008Click HERE for more.
THE AUCTIONING OFF OF 50 WHITE RHINOS: SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL PARKS DOUBLESPEAK
20 February June 2008Click HERE for more.
Press Release Archive (2007)
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
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
