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Key Takeaways * African conservation is chronically underfunded: available money meets only 10 to 20 percent of needs, with an annual gap exceeding one billion dollars. * Funding flows from seven distinct streams, sorted by origin and by whether it is earned, granted, or market-generated, each with its own reliability and
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By Prof Brian Child Key Takeaways * We killed almost everything first. Market hunters cut bison from 60 million to a few hundred and slaughtered 25,000 passenger pigeons a day. Modern conservation was built on the wreckage. * The men who saved wildlife misread why it was dying. Roosevelt blamed greedy
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Key Takeaways * 750,000 people live on Kruger's western boundary, a fast-growing population shaped by apartheid-era forced removals. * Settlement-driven habitat loss is the central, irreversible pressure. Between 1993 and 2006, settlement area grew by almost 40 percent, woodland fell by about 27 percent, and roadside
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By Hank's Voice In 1673, German political philosopher Samuel von Pufendorf wrote, “More inhumanity has been done by man himself than any other of nature’s causes.” Now, over 350 years later, this theme is played out regularly on social media and in the legacy media, in the
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Setting up a new anti-poaching operation takes more than boots on the ground. In this video, Derek Littleton from LUWIRE in the Niassa Reserve of Mozambique explains why information is sometimes more useful than firepower and why turning villagers into allies works better than treating them as adversaries. He&
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By Dr Daniel Stiles Key Takeaways: * An invasive big-headed ant (Pheidole megacephala) is displacing the native acacia ant that defends whistling-thorn trees against elephants at Ol Pejeta. * Big-headed ants don't bite elephants. In invaded areas, elephants break trees at five to seven times the rate
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By Marco Pani Key Takeaways: * Hunting concessions across seven SADC countries cover roughly 1.16 million sq km of habitat. That's nearly double the 618,000 sq km of protected land in national parks in those same countries. * Most of Africa's elephants and lions live outside
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The Ugandan Wildlife Authority (UWA) at Murchison Falls HQ has warehouses filled with snares and traps confiscated from poachers. These come in all shapes and forms, from wheel-traps (gin traps) to spiked wheels. As a means of destroying them, the steel traps and snares are used as reinforcement in
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The management of the Lugenda Foundation, based in the Lugenda Wildlife Reserve (LUWIRE) in the Niassa Special Reserve of Northern Mozambique, is exploring how to change community mindsets. They want to address the issues that create barriers to community success in food security and livelihood options. It is a fact
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Managing 4,500 square kilometers of wilderness, the Lugenda Wildlife Reserve faces unique challenges, including limited tourism revenue, unstable regional conditions, and the presence of over 5,000 community members living within its boundaries. The Lugenda Foundation was established in June 2023 as a fully compliant Mozambican entity serving as
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By Prof Brian Child Key Takeaways: * Wildlife has been miscast as a public good. * The governance regimes for wild resources no longer match their economic characteristics. * Treating wild species as public goods results in an inequitable allocation of costs and benefits. * Benefits are global, but costs are local. * Rhino owners
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By Dr Daniel Stiles Captive big cat collections from around the world, among the poaching threats now facing big cats, are being hoovered up by one mega-zoo in India that calls itself Vantara – ‘Star of the Forest’ in Hindi. Looking only at five big cat species that are held