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Tanzania’s Selous Game Reserve in Trouble. Part 3: The Stiegler’s Gorge Dam. By Dr. Rolf D. Baldus
In 1982, the World Heritage Committee, the intergovernmental decision-making body of the World Heritage Convention, decided to inscribe the Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania on the World Heritage list. ... Read More
China’s Bold New Policy Delivers A Ray Of Hope For Tigers And Rhinoceros. By Hank Jenkins.
On October 29, 2018 the State Council of China announced its decision to rescind the 25 year old prohibition on the domestic use of tiger bone and rhinoceros horn. Rhinoceros and tigers are two iconic... Read More
Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Current determinants of wildlife conservation. Part 3. By Douglas Wise.
Rights and welfare. In human societies, it is generally accepted that, with human rights, come responsibilities. These include a tacit agreement not to harm other members of one’s own society and ... Read More
The Largest Dam of East Africa in Africa’s Largest Game Reserve: An Ecological Disaster in the Making. By Dr. Rolf D. Baldus.
Tanzania’s Selous Game Reserve in Trouble: Poaching, Dams and Mining. Part Two The First Attempt to Build a Dam at Stiegler’s Gorge Tanzania’s largest river, the Rufiji, cuts through the ... Read More
Book Review: The Rhino’s last stand by Clive and Anton Walker. Dr. John Hanks.
Clive Walker has a deserved reputation for being one of Africa’s conservation champions, a prolific writer, talented wildlife artist, and one of those rare public speakers who never fails to captiva... Read More
Trophy hunting as a conservation tool. By Dr. Andrew Taylor.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it, has long recognised that well-managed an... Read More
The Conservation Imperative Activities, August 2018. By Bugs Van Heerden.
The Conservation Imperative was busy during the month of August contributing to youth education as well as addressing a parliamentary portfolio committee. From 7_13 of August I teamed up with a group ... Read More