Author: Bugs van Heerden
Can Land Easements Save Africa’s Wildlife? By Calvin Cottar.
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
The Day Logic Died. By Trevor Oertel.
In music circles the 3rd of February 1959 will always be remembered as “The Day the Music Died” with the tragic death in an aircraft crash of Buddy Holly (That’ll be the Day), Ritchie Valens (La... Read More
Encounters with some ugly ladies. The Idler Column, Mecury Newspaper.
THERE was this ugly female breastfeeding in public. Sies! No, it wasn’t the Street Shelter for the Over-Forties, it was at Mlilwane Game Sanctuary in eSwatini, which they used to call Swaziland. We ... Read More
Conservation and Conspiracies. By Trevor Oertel.
Don Pinnock has got his piss in a froth, again. This time it’s with South Africa’s Department of Environmental Affairs. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2018-10-29-selling-rhino-horn-its-ti... Read More
Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Current determinants of wildlife conservation. Part 3. By Douglas Wise.
Rights and welfare. In human societies, it is generally accepted that, with human rights, come responsibilities. These include a tacit agreement not to harm other members of one’s own society and ... Read More
Trophy hunting as a conservation tool. By Dr. Andrew Taylor.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it, has long recognised that well-managed an... Read More
The Conservation Imperative Activities, August 2018. By Bugs Van Heerden.
The Conservation Imperative was busy during the month of August contributing to youth education as well as addressing a parliamentary portfolio committee. From 7_13 of August I teamed up with a group ... Read More
Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Current Determinants of Wildlife Conservation. Part 2. By Douglas Wise.
Carrying capacity Absenting predation, disease and intra-species aggression, populations of mammalian wildlife and humans are ultimately constrained by the ecosystem services available to them. Thom... Read More