Poaching Issues Along the Banks of the Zambezi River

PATROL - VOLUME 57

Normalizing Hatred and Hypocrisy: The Con-selfserving-ationists of the UK's Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting (and those who agree with them) By Hank's Voice The celebrity led, UK based, Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting (CBTH) must not be making enough money from selling their ugly T-shirts and

The Hidden Crisis - Africa's Largest Wildlife Crime (3-minute Video)

When we think of African wildlife crime, we picture this. Poaching. Ivory. International trafficking. But there's a hidden crisis unfolding across Africa that dwarfs these headlines. Every single day, across every habitat. While around 20,000 elephants are killed annually for ivory… …millions of African animals disappear into

When Conservation Meets Community (6-minute Video)

An extraordinary partnership in the ancient granite landscape of the Matobo Hills of Western Zimbabwe is proving that private enterprise and community can thrive when wildlife is used sustainably. When the Johnson brothers, Guav and Courteney, partnered with the communal land residents who had long struggled with poverty and limited

Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) in African Conservation

Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) is an approach to conservation that recognizes the economic value of ecosystem services and creates financial incentives for their protection. PES involves transactions where a beneficiary or user of an ecosystem service makes payments to individuals or communities whose land management decisions affect the provision