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Defend Truth

Don Pinnock

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

Email: [email protected]

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

Our Burning Planet, Maverick News

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

by: Don Pinnock

Parliament backs NSPCA demand to end captive lion breeding in SA

South Africa, Our Burning Planet, Maverick News

Parliament backs NSPCA demand to end captive lion breeding in SA

by: Don Pinnock

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

South Africa, Our Burning Planet

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

by: Don Pinnock

Conservation world mourns loss of visionary leader Sharon Haussmann

South Africa, Our Burning Planet

Conservation world mourns loss of visionary leader Sharon Haussmann

by: Don Pinnock

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

Our Burning Planet, DM168

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

by: Don Pinnock

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

South Africa, Our Burning Planet, Maverick News

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

by: Don Pinnock

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

Africa, World, Our Burning Planet, Maverick News

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

by: Don Pinnock

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

World, Our Burning Planet

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

by: Don Pinnock

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

South Africa, Our Burning Planet, DM168, Maverick News

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

by: Don Pinnock

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

South Africa, Our Burning Planet

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

by: Don Pinnock

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

Our Burning Planet, Maverick News

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

by: Don Pinnock

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

Our Burning Planet, DM168

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

by: Don Pinnock