Tag: wildlife
Tit for Tat-A Kitty Funded By Captive Cats
On 5 July 2022, Jens Ulrik Hogh of the Nordic Safari Club debated with Will Travers, of the Born Free Foundation, on Sky News. Anti-hunting debaters typically claim that hunting isn... 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
Maintaining Biodiversity — Who Will Pay the Price?
On a weekly, sometimes even daily basis, the news and social media are full of gloom and doom stories forecasting the sixth mass extinction, increasing biodiversity losses, and accelerating land conve... Read More
Bloody Carnage, Bloody Ridiculous.
Ninety-five rhinos poached over the past few months in Hluhluwe/Umfolozi Park is bloody carnage but also predictable, and here’s why. The conservation philosophy that South Africa developed in t... 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
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