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By Prof Brian Child The purpose and importance of quotas—a form of regulation that costs the landholder or community some degree of sovereignty—needs to be analyzed. Where wildlife proprietorship replaces a tragedy of the commons, quotas set in distant administrative capitals serve no purpose; they are administrative window

By Zig Mackintosh Resource-hungry China has prioritized relationships with Africa to gain access to the continent's vast natural resources. In 2000, the 3-yearly Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) was established to boost trade, investment and aid. Unlike the Western World's insistence on "aid consensus"

Ethiopia currently has five safari hunting outfitters conducting safaris in remote wilderness areas. Jointly, they are responsible for protecting over 2000 sq. km of Mountain Nyala habitat. Instead of using a government-controlled conservation approach, safari outfitters opted for a different management program utilizing community empowerment. Communities that border Forestry Priority

By Dr Salomon Joubert Since the mid-1960s, when elephant censuses were initiated, the recorded calf percentages have remained remarkably stable. The only exceptions were 1967 and 1995, when they were 11.3% and 10.1%, respectively. In both cases, this could most likely be attributed to observer bias as the

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