Tag: elephant
Tuskless Elephants: Part 3.
A 1995 paper by H. Jachmann et al., “Tusklessness in African Elephants a Future Trend”, is fascinating. The South Luangwa National Park (SLNP) and the Lupande Game Management Area (LGMA) cover nea... 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
Tuskless Elephants: Part 1.
The March 1966 edition of African Wild Life, the official magazine of the Wild Life Protection and Conservation Society of South Africa, features an interesting article about tuskless elephants in the... Read More
Elephants Making a Plan.
This delightful story was published in the March 1966 edition of “African Wild Life”, the official magazine of the Wild Life Protection and Conservation Society of South Africa. Are elephants capa... 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
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