Tag: conservation
Preservation or Conservation?
The Natal Parks Board took the first biologist onto its staff in 1953. Gradually over the years, more scientists joined. The scientific staffs brief was “to conduct research into those aspects o... Read More
Wilderness Leadership School.
Since Dr Ian Player and Magqubu Ntombela started the Wilderness Leadership School in 1957, over 70 000 people worldwide have been through it. The courses have subsequently become broader and include a... Read More
Conservation as a Subject at School?
Should conservation be a part of the education syllabus and taught as a separate subject at school? This question was the topic of an editorial by Miss C. Bond in the publication “Natal Wildlife... 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