Category: African Wildlife Conservation
Masses of Murders
How ironic that one of the most invasive species on the planet, the house crow, Corvus splendens, is inextricably dependent on the presence of another of the world’s most impactful – human... Read More
Tit for Tat-A Kitty Funded By Captive Cats
On 5 July 2022, Jens Ulrik Hogh of the Nordic Safari Club debated with Will Travers, of the Born Free Foundation, on Sky News. Anti-hunting debaters typically claim that hunting isn... Read More
Wilderness as a Form of Landuse.
In the March 1966 edition of African Wildlife (The official magazine of the Wildlife Protection and Conservation Society of South Africa), John Pringle writes about the concept of wilderness areas bei... Read More
Deleterious Effects Downstream
It is said, particularly by people who study watersheds, that “We all live downstream”. And that is very true. Even those living near headwaters are probably affected in some way by activities occ... Read More
Game Control in National Parks. By A. M. Brynard.
In the June 1967 edition of African Wildlife, the official magazine of the Wildlife Protection and Conservation Society of South Africa, researcher A. M. Brynard’s talk to the Transvaal fieldwor... Read More
The Hartmann’s Mountain Zebra
Equus zebra hartmannae, Hartmann’s mountain zebra, occurs in three formally protected areas in South Africa, the Goegap Nature Reserve, Augrabies Falls National Park and Richtersveld National Park. ... Read More
Tuskless Elephants: Part 3.
A 1995 paper by H. Jachmann et al., “Tusklessness in African Elephants a Future Trend”, is fascinating. The South Luangwa National Park (SLNP) and the Lupande Game Management Area (LGMA) cover nea... Read More
Tuskless Elephants: Part 2.
In 1965 N. Owen-Smith from the University of Natal Wild-Life Society led a research team into the Mana Pools Game Reserve in the Zambezi Valley to try and figure out the proportion of tuskless elephan... Read More