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By Doug Wise The title is deliberately provocative because most formally protected wildlife areas in Africa adopt a management strategy that relies upon “letting nature take its course”.  Why?  I suggest that there are essentially two reasons: 1) Most available funding for such areas is now spent on policing (anti-poaching)

By Dr Salomon Joubert This article, which has been divided into two sections, was written by the late Dr Salomon Joubert in 2017. It is as pertinent today as it was then. Introduction Censusing of animal populations in medium to large conservation areas plays a crucial role in many of

When Ted Davidson, the park's first warden, arrived in Hwange in 1922, he realized that the provision of water was the key factor in the park's development. The region is semi-arid, with an average annual rainfall of around 25 inches, most of which falls between November

Zambeze Delta Safaris took over Coutada 11 in Mozambique 30 years ago. The country was emerging from a bitter and bloody civil war, and the wildlife in the region had all but been obliterated. Mark Haldane, his professional hunters, and a small anti-poaching team went to work on rehabilitating the

Human-wildlife conflict can be defined as any interaction between humans and wildlife that negatively impacts human social, economic or cultural life on the conservation of wildlife populations or the environment. Current strategies revolve around "resolving "and "mitigating" conflict.  This approach is either too simplistic or short-sighted