Tag: African conservation
Citizen Hunter: The Story of SA Hunters
From its humble beginnings in 1949, when 50 hunters met in a coffee shop in the Pretoria Zoo when there seemed no hope for the future of wildlife in South Africa, SA Hunters and Game Conservation Asso... Read More
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
The Humane Society is notorious for its “surveys” about public sentiment around hunting. A 2017 poll, they claim, shows deep and widespread opposition to trophy hunting (suspiciously that pag... Read More
Masses of Murders
How ironic that one of the most invasive species on the planet, the house crow, Corvus splendens, is inextricably dependent on the presence of another of the world’s most impactful – human... Read More
Wilderness as a Form of Landuse.
In the March 1966 edition of African Wildlife (The official magazine of the Wildlife Protection and Conservation Society of South Africa), John Pringle writes about the concept of wilderness areas bei... 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
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 2.
In 1965 N. Owen-Smith from the University of Natal Wild-Life Society led a research team into the Mana Pools Game Reserve in the Zambezi Valley to try and figure out the proportion of tuskless elephan... Read More