Author: Zig Mackintosh
Has the Animal Rights Group, IFAW, Captured Zimbabwe’s Parks and Wildlife Management Authority?
In September 2019, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) signed a “Partnership agreement” with Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) relating to the Hwange... Read More
Elephants Making a Plan.
This delightful story was published in the March 1966 edition of “African Wild Life”, the official magazine of the Wild Life Protection and Conservation Society of South Africa. Are elephants capa... Read More
Preservation or Conservation?
The Natal Parks Board took the first biologist onto its staff in 1953. Gradually over the years, more scientists joined. The scientific staffs brief was “to conduct research into those aspects o... Read More
Wilderness Leadership School.
Since Dr Ian Player and Magqubu Ntombela started the Wilderness Leadership School in 1957, over 70 000 people worldwide have been through it. The courses have subsequently become broader and include a... Read More
Conservation as a Subject at School?
Should conservation be a part of the education syllabus and taught as a separate subject at school? This question was the topic of an editorial by Miss C. Bond in the publication “Natal Wildlife... Read More
We Have Simply Lost Our Way.
A Wildlife Symposium, organised by the Natal Fieldwork Section, was held at Pretoriuskop, South Africa, from the 15th to the 20th May 1968, 53 years ago. In this article, Mr. T. C. Robertson, who pres... Read More
To Fence or Not to Fence?
Landscape conservation is more important than the fate of individual species but is the idea of human-wildlife coexistence always possible, and at what cost? A 2013 paper by Craig Packer and 57 other ... Read More
A Less Glamorous Narrative: The Mpungini Conservation Area.
Martiens Potgieter is a burly, handle-bar mustached maize farmer from Normandien KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, who came to the area as a child in 1970. He has lived, worked, and played here ever since.... Read More