Staff Writer

Natural ecosystems are very fragile, and it is extremely difficult to restore them once they are lost. Zambia's Lunga Busanga Game Management Area (GMA) borders the Kafue National Park to the north. The tsetse fly (Glossina sp.) carries the Trypanosoma parasite, which causes sleeping sickness in humans and

By Prof Brian Child As humans, hunters seek excellence and measure a multifaceted safari by the size or age of the horns on the animal, getting bragging powers by having a trophy bigger than their peers. Unlike farming or hunting for meat, hunting for trophies is discriminating in the extreme.

If communities are not going to benefit from conservation, conservation is not going to survive. Safari hunting is one way of ensuring a sustainability tool, but it is not going to solve the problem of elephants. We simply have too many in these areas. But hunting, at least in the

By Dr. Salomon Joubert Water provision in the Park has come a long way since the early 1930s. Essentially, the underlying motivation for providing artificial water points was to try and achieve larger numbers of animals (for the sake of tourists) by enticing them to waterless areas with sufficient, under-utilized

The deadly gin trap's origins in Mozambique are rooted in the devasting war that gripped the country for decades. During the war, thousands of destroyed military vehicles lay discarded across the sub-region. The leaf springs of these vehicles provided the primary material for the local blacksmiths, who used

By Zig Mackintosh Progress is perhaps inevitable, but must it come at any cost? Can a nation of people be expected to embrace wildlife conservation after forced eviction from ancestral lands, where the outside world places a higher value on the life of a wild animal than their own? The