Category: African Wildlife Conservation
To Fence or Not to Fence?
Landscape conservation is more important than the fate of individual species but is the idea of human-wildlife coexistence always possible, and at what cost? A 2013 paper by Craig Packer and 57 other ... Read More
A Less Glamorous Narrative: The Mpungini Conservation Area.
Martiens Potgieter is a burly, handle-bar mustached maize farmer from Normandien KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, who came to the area as a child in 1970. He has lived, worked, and played here ever since.... Read More
Botswana’s Buffalo Fence.
Any Third-World nation that seeks to export beef to international markets, especially in Europe, must meet high standards of veterinary hygiene and disease management. In the early 1970s, the European... Read More
Land Use Options
Conservation is all about the best land-use options. In this short video the Bubye Valley Conservancy’s anti-poaching manager, Norman English looks into the land-use option that the conservancy has ... Read More
Why Aren’t We Talking About This?
Discussions on conservation in Africa generally center around iconic game species. But conservation is not about “Cecil the lion”. Broadly non-timber forest products (NTFPs) can be defined... Read More
Burping Cows or Free-Range Wildlife?
Wildlife utilization is an integral part of the Namibian economy. There would be no reason to keep the wildlife if it had no tangible value. It boils down to land use, cows and ploughs, if not wildlif... Read More
Ecosystem Services.
An ecosystem is a dynamic complex of plants, animals, microorganisms and their non-living environment interacting as a functional unit. Central to understanding this is that people are integral parts ... Read More
Appropriate and Sustainable Land Use.
In a 2009 paper, The Economics of Wildlife Conservation Policy in Kenya, Michael Norton-Griffiths states that although Kenya is some 580,000 km2 in area, only 15% supports continuous agricultural prod... Read More