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Born A Crime.
Trevor Noah’s evocatively titled autobiography “Born a crime” reminded me of an article I wrote about the 2013 attempt to list species as invasive. The power behind Trevor’s title lies in the ... Read More
The Sulieman Markhor of the Torghar Mountains.
The Islamic Republic of Pakistan is strategically situated between South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. The Torghar or “Black Mountain” range is situated in northeastern Balochistan near... 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
Book Review: Overkill by James Clarke.
Ninety percent of the world’s megafauna (its larger creatures) have disappeared since humans migrated from Africa and fanned out across the rest of the world. Within a very short time the megafauna... Read More
Are the Environmental Principles Really That Necessary?
I have concentrated in recent articles on the importance of the environmental principles set out in section 2 of the South African National Environmental Management Act (NEMA). This is because NEMA ... Read More
John Hume, a True Rhino Conservationist.
Three years ago I met John Hume who has been dubbed the worlds largest rhino breeder. I saw first hand how he runs his farm and had an opportunity to talk to him for hours and meet some of the happy r... Read More
Wildlife at War in Angola. Book Review by Dr. George Hughes.
Wildlife at War in Angola By Brian J. Huntley Over the past two centuries, Africa has been the scene of some of the greatest, most dramatic, and most shameful, ecological and environmental catastrophe... Read More