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To Be or Not To Be A Bee, As, Officially, A Fish Instead
When is a bee a fish? No, that’s not the opening line to a corny joke. Rather, it is a legal designation California lawmakers recently bestowed upon four endangered bee species in order to officiall... Read More
Maintaining Biodiversity — Who Will Pay the Price?
On a weekly, sometimes even daily basis, the news and social media are full of gloom and doom stories forecasting the sixth mass extinction, increasing biodiversity losses, and accelerating land conve... Read More
WAR IS PEACE – Online Reactions to The Death of Tolstoy the Tusker
Tolstoy, the human, was a Russian writer in the 19th century. Best known for his voluminous novel, War and Peace. Tolstoy, the African savanna elephant, was a tusker, best known for his lo... 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
Charcoal Snap-Facts from The State of The Wildlife Economy Report.
Charcoal is one of the most important non-timber forest products in Africa. It meets the energy needs of about 800 million people, or 65% of the population. It has high energy content, easy to store a... Read More
A Reel World Example
Conservation discussions nowadays, particularly those on social media, might lead many to mistakenly believe that people are mostly polarized in their views and that land outside of cities is either p... 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