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On an ordinary day in a Botswana wildlife reserve in 2015, a camera trap caught a leopard doing something extraordinary. She was moving along a track she knew well. Nothing stood in her way. No dogs. No electric fences. No one with a rifle. And then she stopped, turned, and
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By Prof Brian Child Key Takeaways * Wild resources are taxed and regulated in ways no farmer would tolerate for livestock. A South African farmer needs 17 permits to sell a springbok and one to sell a sheep. That asymmetry shifts land-use decisions against wildlife. * Wildlife is priceless to society
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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&