Category: African Wildlife Conservation
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
Tuskless Elephants: Part 1.
The March 1966 edition of African Wild Life, the official magazine of the Wild Life Protection and Conservation Society of South Africa, features an interesting article about tuskless elephants in the... Read More
Has the Animal Rights Group, IFAW, Captured Zimbabwe’s Parks and Wildlife Management Authority?
In September 2019, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) signed a “Partnership agreement” with Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) relating to the Hwange... Read More
Elephants Making a Plan.
This delightful story was published in the March 1966 edition of “African Wild Life”, the official magazine of the Wild Life Protection and Conservation Society of South Africa. Are elephants capa... Read More
Preservation or Conservation?
The Natal Parks Board took the first biologist onto its staff in 1953. Gradually over the years, more scientists joined. The scientific staffs brief was “to conduct research into those aspects o... Read More
Wilderness Leadership School.
Since Dr Ian Player and Magqubu Ntombela started the Wilderness Leadership School in 1957, over 70 000 people worldwide have been through it. The courses have subsequently become broader and include a... Read More