Monday, 12 October 2026Daily Edition · No. 034

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Conservation can protect how animals live, too: South Africa’s top court keeps wellbeing safeguards

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South Africa’s Constitutional Court has rejected a hunters’ association’s challenge to animal wellbeing provisions in biodiversity legislation. The decision preserves the requirement to consider animals’ wellbeing when making decisions about how wildlife is managed, conserved and used.

Protecting wildlife can mean more than preserving populations: these safeguards keep individual animals’ health and quality of life part of conservation decisions.

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