Author: Zig Mackintosh
Photo-Tourism Versus Safari Hunting Versus Both? By Kevin Leo-Smith.
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
“SUSTAINABLE USE” AND “NATURE CONSERVATION”: WHO INVENTED THE CONCEPTS? -A View from Germany -Dr. Rolf D. Baldus.
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
Selous Game Reserve: A Unique Wilderness. By W. Alan Rodgers and Rolf D. Baldus
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
Tanzania’s Selous Game Reserve in Trouble. Part 3: The Stiegler’s Gorge Dam. By Dr. Rolf D. Baldus
In 1982, the World Heritage Committee, the intergovernmental decision-making body of the World Heritage Convention, decided to inscribe the Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania on the World Heritage list. ... Read More
The Largest Dam of East Africa in Africa’s Largest Game Reserve: An Ecological Disaster in the Making. By Dr. Rolf D. Baldus.
Tanzania’s Selous Game Reserve in Trouble: Poaching, Dams and Mining. Part Two The First Attempt to Build a Dam at Stiegler’s Gorge Tanzania’s largest river, the Rufiji, cuts through the ... Read More
