Author: Zig Mackintosh
The International Wildlife Conservation Council.
The United States Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has announced the creation of the International Wildlife Conservation Council. The Council will provide advice and recommendations to the Secreta... Read More
Why Did the Safari Hunting Ban in Botswana Fail Both the Wildlife and the Communities?
Botswana’s tourism industry is largely nature-based, relying on wildlife resources. In the 1990’s the Community-based Natural Resource Management program (CBNRM) was adopted. The idea? Whe... Read More
Rebuilding the Wildlife Sector in Zimbabwe. Dr. Rolf Baldus and Dr. Graham Child
The recent political events in Zimbabwe have raised the expectations of a revival in the country’s fortunes. Hopefully the wildlife sector won’t be left out. In 2005 Dr. Rolf Baldus and the late D... Read More
The Sulieman Markhor of the Torghar Mountains.
The Islamic Republic of Pakistan is strategically situated between South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. The Torghar or “Black Mountain” range is situated in northeastern Balochistan near... Read More
Book Review: Overkill by James Clarke.
Ninety percent of the world’s megafauna (its larger creatures) have disappeared since humans migrated from Africa and fanned out across the rest of the world. Within a very short time the megafauna... Read More
Wildlife at War in Angola. Book Review by Dr. George Hughes.
Wildlife at War in Angola By Brian J. Huntley Over the past two centuries, Africa has been the scene of some of the greatest, most dramatic, and most shameful, ecological and environmental catastrophe... Read More
The Birth of Game Ranching in Zimbabwe.
Towards the end of the 1950’s a small group of cattle ranchers, who were also committed wildlife conservationists, pioneered the game ranching industry in Zimbabwe. The idea developed from the theor... Read More
Cecil moment or Cecil movement.
In a rather curious paper by David W. Macdonald et al. (Cecil: A Moment or a Movement? Analysis of Media Coverage of the Death of a Lion, Panthera Leo) the authors try to figure out if the reaction to... Read More