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By Dr. Salomon Joubert Water provision in the Park has come a long way since the early 1930s. Essentially, the underlying motivation for providing artificial water points was to try and achieve larger numbers of animals (for the sake of tourists) by enticing them to waterless areas with sufficient, under-utilized

The deadly gin trap's origins in Mozambique are rooted in the devasting war that gripped the country for decades. During the war, thousands of destroyed military vehicles lay discarded across the sub-region. The leaf springs of these vehicles provided the primary material for the local blacksmiths, who used

By Zig Mackintosh Progress is perhaps inevitable, but must it come at any cost? Can a nation of people be expected to embrace wildlife conservation after forced eviction from ancestral lands, where the outside world places a higher value on the life of a wild animal than their own? The

Mozambique has a vast network of protected areas, about 25% of the territory. That responsibility comes with many challenges. The Mozambique Wildlife Alliance (MWA) is a local Mozambican nonprofit organization that was conceptualized, created and then developed to address specific conservation issues in Mozambique. The idea was to create a

By David Cook Since the ban on trade was imposed in respect of both elephant ivory ( barring a few one-off badly managed ivory auctions sanctioned by CITES ) and rhino horn, both species have been in steady decline primarily as a result of poaching but also suitably aggravated by human/wildlife

27,500 elephants, or 5% of Africa’s total, live in Botswana's farming areas. This is more than Namibia and Zambia’s total population. In Ngamiland, in the North-West district alone, there are around 160,000 people, an estimated 238,000 cattle, and about 9,000 agricultural fields.

By Prof Brian Child The spread of Western civilization was synonymous with the spread of domestic species and the domination of nature, often with deleterious consequences (Monbiot 2022). Importantly, the economic superiority of domestic species did not drive this, but because, for deep historical reasons, farmers owned livestock but were