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Snare Busters: Wildlife Rescue

Snare Busters: Wildlife Rescue

The Snare Busters Program is not just about removing snares from the bush. The volunteers are also involved in wildlife rescue operations. Their policy is the same as other reputable conservation organizations, where they don’t intervene if the injuries are natural unless it is an endangered species. The work

Zimbabwe Professional Guides Association Outreach Program

Zimbabwe Professional Guides Association Outreach Program

The Zimbabwe Professional Guides Association (ZPGA) realized that there are a lot of critics of safari hunting around the world. These armchair critics voice their opinions from their keyboards, causing immeasurable damage to meaningful conservation initiatives. Instead of being reactive to these criticisms, ZPGA decided to proactively engage with the

The Essence of Life

The Essence of Life

The Kizigo Game Reserve in Central Tanzania has no perennial rivers or natural lakes. With the increasing frequency of droughts in the region, the Tanzania Wildlife Authority (TAWA) amended its conservation policy for the game reserve. Previous ideology centered on minimal interference with natural systems, including the provision of artificial

PATROL - VOLUME 15

PATROL - VOLUME 15

Why Is Kenya’s Wildlife Policy 60 Years Behind Southern Africa? A 2016 paper by Joseph Ogutu, Senior Statistician University of Hohenheim et al., noted that over the past four decades, populations of almost all the common wildlife species in Kenya have fallen to one-third or less of their previous

Issues Facing Rural Life in Scotland

Issues Facing Rural Life in Scotland

Poaching, bad governance and political football are issues that are not unique to Africa; it is a worldwide malaise. The Countryside Alliance is a political campaigning force that promotes and protects the rural way of life. The Alliance represents the interests of its members and supporters in parliament, in the

Vultures As Indicators

Vultures As Indicators

Looking for snares is not always an easy task, but aerial help in the form of circling vultures can assist. Vultures spot animals caught in snares from a great height and can lead anti-poaching teams to the site. Poachers know this and often poison animal carcasses to kill vultures to

Rudimentary Tools of the Poachers’ Trade

Rudimentary Tools of the Poachers’ Trade

Professional hunter Fico Vidale and his team, with a government game scout, caught an armed poacher on the Katanga Plateau on the northern border of the Kafue National Park in Zambia. The poacher was stalking a large herd of buffalo. The local village gunsmith had fashioned the stock. The barrel