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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

Why Is Kenya’s Wildlife Policy 60 Years Behind Southern Africa?

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 levels. https://shrturl.app/sWNoJm Concurrently, livestock numbers, most notably sheep

PATROL - VOLUME 14

PATROL - VOLUME 14

Conservation By Foreign Decree The US Fish and Wildlife Service considers the conservation benefit of listing domestic species on the endangered species list much higher than that of foreign species listing. READ NOW Retaliatory and Commercial Poaching of Leopard (6-minute Video) The market for leopard skins seriously threatens the conservation