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At the end of the 19th century, no more than 20 Spanish ibex were left in the Gredos mountain range. The population experienced a significant decline due to several factors, including habitat loss, poaching, and disease. Concerned with the situation, a group of hunters met with King Alfonso XIII, himself

Charlton McCallum Safaris INTRODUCTION Dear Friends, Let me start by thanking you all for your continued and unwavering support, which has helped immeasurably in keeping DAPU going. The 2022/2023 rainy season was precisely average, and whilst total rainfall was almost identical to the 2021/2022 season, the monthly averages

Informants play an essential part in any anti-poaching initiative. Guides Against Poaching (GAP) are innovative in creating informant networks across Zimbabwe. Honey production provides an income source to rural communities, and a good relationship can be established by providing them with active hives, bee-keeping training, and access to markets. Once

By Zig Mackintosh Landscape conservation is more important than the fate of individual species but is the idea of human-wildlife coexistence always possible, and at what cost? A 2013 paper by Craig Packer and 57 other authors, "Conserving Large Carnivores: Dollars and Fence" https://www.researchgate.net/publication/

Professional hunter Pete Fick was a game ranger in Zimbabwe’s Department of National Parks and Wildlife in the 1980s and was stationed on the shores of Lake Kariba in the Chete Safari Concession. Every year, Pete helps the department with meat and fish anti-poaching operations in the region for

By Hank's Voice To maximize patrol effectiveness, understanding how and where poachers work is essential. Systematically collected, large-scale information on that is sparse, especially in East Africa. But, a recent study by Rija and Kideghesho (2020) in the Serengeti ecosystem of northern Tanzania provided some such knowledge.   https:

John Laing from Guides Against Poaching explains how poacher syndicates have their own poaching “concessions”. These syndicates rely on suppliers to provide the material for snares. Every poacher has his method of setting up a snare by which he can claim any animal caught in it as his; a calling