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The Management of Elephants and Related Management Issues in the Kruger National Park. Part 1. By Dr. Salomon Joubert.
This article, which has been divided into three sections, was written by Dr. Salomon Joubert in 2010. INTRODUCTION In the past few years the control of elephant numbers by means of culling as a valid ... Read More
The Management of Elephants and Related Management Issues in the Kruger National Park. Part 2. By Dr. Salomon Joubert.
This article, which has been divided into three sections, was written by Dr. Salomon Joubert in 2010. Elephant census What had been conveyed to me was that a statement had been made to the effect that... Read More
“SUSTAINABLE USE” AND “NATURE CONSERVATION”: WHO INVENTED THE CONCEPTS? -A View from Germany -Dr. Rolf D. Baldus.
A short distance from my house in one of Germany’s oldest nature reserves, the ‘Siebengebirge‘-Nature Park, lies a romantic building, the Dragon Castle, a never inhabited chateau with an impress... Read More
Selous Game Reserve: A Unique Wilderness. By W. Alan Rodgers and Rolf D. Baldus
The Selous Game Reserve, at around 50,000 km2, is Africa’s largest legally gazetted wilderness area. No habitation, no cultivation, no cattle, no people apart fromreserve staff, some tourists an... Read More
Kruger Park Casual Observations. By Dr. Salomon Joubert.
I recently had the privilege of spending a month leisurely and idly travelling through the southern half of the Park in the company of my wife and, for a few days, friends.With the exception of the Pr... Read More
The Day Logic Died. By Trevor Oertel.
In music circles the 3rd of February 1959 will always be remembered as “The Day the Music Died” with the tragic death in an aircraft crash of Buddy Holly (That’ll be the Day), Ritchie Valens (La... Read More
Encounters with some ugly ladies. The Idler Column, Mecury Newspaper.
THERE was this ugly female breastfeeding in public. Sies! No, it wasn’t the Street Shelter for the Over-Forties, it was at Mlilwane Game Sanctuary in eSwatini, which they used to call Swaziland. We ... Read More
