The Botswana Environment Statistics Wildlife Digest 2014 reported that the results of an elephant census carried out by the Department of Wildlife and National Parks (DWNP) in 2003 showed the number t...Read More
A Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA) is defined as a component of a large ecological region that straddles the boundaries of two or more countries encompassing one or more protected ...Read More
We all know how important the right to vote is, right? We will all mostly probably reply, if asked, that the right to vote in free and fair elections is what makes our country a democracy. However I w...Read More
Ted Reilly was familiar to me long before I actually met him; as one of the legendary figures of wildlife conservation in Southern Africa; spoken of with respect and reverence alongside other greats l...Read More
This thread on the Africa Geographic website (link below) motivated me to try to contribute positively to this pro / anti-hunting debate that is often unnecessarily polarizing and acrimonious. I...Read More
Unfortunately, wild animals that are a cost to land owners in any way will always be killed, this is how land use change works. In some countries killing has become ritualized and monetized to become ...Read More
This article, which has been divided into three sections, was written by Dr. Salomon Joubert in 2010. INTRODUCTION In the past few years the control of elephant numbers by means of culling as a valid ...Read More
This article, which has been divided into three sections, was written by Dr. Salomon Joubert in 2010. Elephant census What had been conveyed to me was that a statement had been made to the effect that...Read More
A short distance from my house in one of Germany’s oldest nature reserves, the ‘Siebengebirge‘-Nature Park, lies a romantic building, the Dragon Castle, a never inhabited chateau with an impress...Read More
The Selous Game Reserve, at around 50,000 km2, is Africa’s largest legally gazetted wilderness area. No habitation, no cultivation, no cattle, no people apart fromreserve staff, some tourists an...Read More