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The game ranching industry in South Africa in the 1960s was based primarily on venison production and a small amount of photographic tourism. There was very little demand for white rhinos because they were specially protected animals; they couldn’t be safari hunted. Private landowners didn’t want rhinos because

By Dr Salomon Joubert Senegalia nigrescens is arguably the most important woody plant in the Kruger National Park (KNP) ecosystems. It is highly nutritious, selectively browsed by all browsers, from duiker to giraffe, and provides primary nesting sites for at least four of the KNP vulture species and several of

Part of Mozambique Wildlife Alliance’s (MWA) mission in Mozambique is to mitigate and manage human-wildlife conflict by implementing measures to promote tolerance. A component of that program is collaring elephants with GPS devices. Once the collars are deployed, MWA can monitor their location in real-time and determine the likelihood

A seminal study on the Henderson Ranch in Zimbabwe by two Fulbright scholars, doctors Mossman and Dussman from Humboldt University in California, discovered that properly managed wildlife was worth more in terms of its profitability to the landowner than domestic livestock. And so, the philosophy of game ranching was born.

By Prof Brian Child The term trophy hunting has risen to prominence since 2010 (Di Minin, Clements et al. 2021) through pejorative branding by Western special interest groups to encapsulate the image of entitled, rapacious, obese, white men killing beautiful animals for fun, to extinction, and in harmful ways. “Trophy

The early managers of Zululand’s wilderness areas discovered that managing wildlife populations in finite regions is complex, especially with growing impoverished, rural communities as neighbors. They had to be innovative in their approach to the issues, so the concept of adaptive management was born. Adaptive management simply means controlling

By Dr Salomon Joubert (This is an excerpt from a longer article, Kruger National Park Elephant Population: Current Situation and Management Considerations.) International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW): in a booklet, Elephants, Facts and Fables, by Prof Rudi van Aarde, it is stated that: “IFAW has partnered with the Conservation