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Defend Truth

Don Pinnock

Don Pinnock is a Daily Maverick journalist specialising on environmental issues.

Latest Work

How the world’s top trophy hunters are killing off leopards

9 June 2025

How the world’s top trophy hunters are killing off leopards

5 min

14

Parliament backs NSPCA demand to end captive lion breeding in SA

4 June 2025

Parliament backs NSPCA demand to end captive lion breeding in SA

6 min

4

Forget cats, forget traps — bring in the puff adders to revolutionise pest control

2 June 2025

Forget cats, forget traps — bring in the puff adders to revolutionise pest control

4 min

5

Conservation world mourns loss of visionary leader Sharon Haussmann

2 June 2025

Conservation world mourns loss of visionary leader Sharon Haussmann

2 min

2

Compassion collides with cruelty — the suffering of animals and the toll on the woman who defends them

2 June 2025

Compassion collides with cruelty — the suffering of animals and the toll on the woman who defends them

5 min

6

Minister to remove wrecks from small SA harbours after outcry by fishers

27 May 2025

Minister to remove wrecks from small SA harbours after outcry by fishers

4 min

1

$When the elders fall silent — how the loss of elephant matriarchs fractures a society$

25 May 2025

When the elders fall silent — how the loss of elephant matriarchs fractures a society

5 min

3

‘It’s a calling… someone has to do it’ — NSPCA inspector on why she endures the danger and the heartbreak

22 May 2025

‘It’s a calling… someone has to do it’ — NSPCA inspector on why she endures the danger and the heartbreak

5 min

1

Parliament pushes for urgent action on Mawana’s roaming elephant herd

21 May 2025

Parliament pushes for urgent action on Mawana’s roaming elephant herd

5 min

0

Fears of a syndicate plot to wipe out all Lowveld vultures after 100 more poisoned

19 May 2025

Fears of a syndicate plot to wipe out all Lowveld vultures after 100 more poisoned

6 min

1

Thousands of pangolins, 193,000 elephants — how crime networks are hollowing out Africa’s wilderness

18 May 2025

Thousands of pangolins, 193,000 elephants — how crime networks are hollowing out Africa’s wilderness

6 min

1

Hout Bay Harbour is a wreck, give us action not ‘glossy’ plans, fishers tell minister

15 May 2025

Hout Bay Harbour is a wreck, give us action not ‘glossy’ plans, fishers tell minister

6 min

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