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Hunting safari operators in Tanzania are expected to undertake conservation work within their leased concessions.  Ganam/EBN operate in the Kizigo West and Kizigo Central game reserves in Western Tanzania and has conducted a variety of projects since moving into the area, which include opening 1,000 km of roads,

Mike Holliday is the wildlife manager at the Glen Ample Estate in the Scottish Highlands, and over the past 35 years, he has had to contend with many different management issues. In the early years, poaching was an issue for a variety of reasons, but Mike was able to overcome

An ecosystem is a dynamic complex of plants, animals, microorganisms and their non-living environment interacting as a functional unit.  Central to understanding this is that people are integral parts of ecosystems.  This fact is something the preservationists conveniently overlook, especially when it comes to discussing conservation in Africa.  Ecosystem Services

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 fieldwork section of the society was published. This was 56 years ago before elephant culling started in the Kruger

German Gamazo Hohenlohe manages a countryside estate that has been in the family for almost 150 years. The property is unique in that it is a mixture of ancient oak trees and pastures (called a dehesa) and a Mediterranean forest that is thousands of years old. Because of the soil&

In 1965, N. Owen-Smith from the University of Natal Wildlife Society, led a research team into the Mana Pools Game Reserve in the Zambezi Valley to try and figure out the proportion of tuskless elephants. The team found that of the 150 elephants on which it was possible to determine

The poaching of predators and scavengers is on the increase for a variety of reasons. There is a lucrative market for the supply of animal body parts for the muthi (traditional African medicine) trade, as well as an increasing demand in the East. Poisoning poached animal carcasses is the preferred