The Great Elephant Census (GEC)The Great Elephant Census (GEC)
Its faults and its foibles I was taken to task at last year’s (2016) CITES meeting – by the IUCN’s Rosie Cooney (Chair of the International Union for the Conservation
Its faults and its foibles I was taken to task at last year’s (2016) CITES meeting – by the IUCN’s Rosie Cooney (Chair of the International Union for the Conservation
An article on that appeared in the online magazine AFRICA GEOGRAPHIC “The BIG LIE about lion trophy hunting” recently came to my attention. You can find it here I cannot
The Great Elephant Census (2016) provides insufficient information to properly gauge the true status of Africa’s elephant populations. The GEC figures presented, record the numbers of elephants counted across the
The lions which “escaped” from Kruger National Park this week. They did not “escape from the park”. And they were not “curious” – as some people have suggested. They “escaped”
Elephant Management in Kruger National Park (4) In Blog 3 on this subject, I said that I would explain the rationale about managing excessive elephant populations and the justification for
Johannesburg – The proposal that CITES should change the status of the African elephant by placing the species on the (endangered) Appendix I list, has no validity. As long as
This inexpensive little book was written as a ‘handbook for nature lovers’ at the behest of South Africa’s three main hunter associations. It explains the principles and practices of wildlife
This book simply had to be written! Its subject has been the author’s all consuming passion for as long as he can remember – thus he has a deep and
One must also understand that the Number One wildlife management objective of a national park is the maintenance of its species diversity (the healthy maintenance of all the plants and
The Black Rhinoceros Now let’s have a look at the black rhinoceros which, after the elephant, is next in line in the human-created African icon ranking. After elephants, I know