Tag: animal rights
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
Spitting in The Face of Sustainable Use
Sustainable use is the utilization of any resource that does not lead to its long-term degradation or depletion, thereby maintaining its potential to meet the needs of not only the resource itself but... Read More
Has the Animal Rights Group, IFAW, Captured Zimbabwe’s Parks and Wildlife Management Authority?
In September 2019, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) signed a “Partnership agreement” with Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) relating to the Hwange... Read More
We Have Simply Lost Our Way.
A Wildlife Symposium, organised by the Natal Fieldwork Section, was held at Pretoriuskop, South Africa, from the 15th to the 20th May 1968, 53 years ago. In this article, Mr. T. C. Robertson, who pres... Read More
To Fence or Not to Fence?
Landscape conservation is more important than the fate of individual species but is the idea of human-wildlife coexistence always possible, and at what cost? A 2013 paper by Craig Packer and 57 other ... Read More
A Less Glamorous Narrative: The Mpungini Conservation Area.
Martiens Potgieter is a burly, handle-bar mustached maize farmer from Normandien KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, who came to the area as a child in 1970. He has lived, worked, and played here ever since.... Read More
Botswana’s Buffalo Fence.
Any Third-World nation that seeks to export beef to international markets, especially in Europe, must meet high standards of veterinary hygiene and disease management. In the early 1970s, the European... Read More
Land Use Options
Conservation is all about the best land-use options. In this short video the Bubye Valley Conservancy’s anti-poaching manager, Norman English looks into the land-use option that the conservancy has ... Read More