Category: African Wildlife Conservation
Moz Parks Foundation.
INTRODUCTION The past months have been quite extraordinary for MozParks Foundation: several wildlife rescues, community work, overseas events, awards and articles in the National newspapers – not ba... Read More
The Elephant in the Room.
On April 4, 2014, USFWS suspended imports of safari hunted elephant trophies due to insufficient information on the status of elephant in Zimbabwe and an outdated elephant management plan. It has take... Read More
The Bawa Hunting Concession, Mozambique.
Animal rights groups claim that safari hunting does nothing for wildlife or ecosystems. The Bawa hunting concession spans almost one million acres across the South bank of Lake Cabora Bassa. It incorp... 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
Strategies for Elephant Management by Douglas Wise.
The principal concern for those managing elephants in most of their populations relates to their declining numbers. Causes of the declines are well understood and ascribable principally to poaching,... 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
A Voyage of Discovery. By Bugs Van Heerden.
Over the last month and a half I have done some traveling or a bit of a discovery mission. I started with the AGM at the reserve which I own shares in in Botswana. My involvement in this reserve gives... Read More
Elephant Effects on Ecosystems by Douglas Wise.
Elephants have been described as landscape engineers and, above certain population densities, they make considerable impacts upon the habitats in which they reside. In certain highly sensitive envir... Read More