Seeing elephants in the wild is a timelessly awe-inspiring experience. There are only three living species today: the African savannah elephant, African forest elephant, and Asian elephant. They are the remnants of a once prosperous lineage of megaherbivores called proboscideans, whose evolutionary epic spanned 60 million years and some 200 species. The African continent was […]
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There is a surge in the use of health hazard mining chemicals across Africa which pose a threat to humanity, wildlife and livestock. Zimbabwe being an agro-based nation where small scale farmers rely on ploughing using livestock, which is therefore, at the centre of citizens’ sources of sustainable livelihoods. Meanwhile, wildlife has become an important […]
Mountains are home to more than 85% of the world’s amphibian, bird and mammal species. Lowland slopes are rich in animal and plant species. And rugged, high-elevation environments, although lacking such biological diversity, play a key role in maintaining biodiversity in the wider mountain catchment area. The variation in mountain ecosystems also allows humans to […]
The Cross River gorilla, forest elephant, Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees and some other fauna and flora are on the verge of going extinct as a result of human exploitation of the Cross River forests which stretch across the Nigerian border into Cameroon. The human activities in and around these forests–poaching, trafficking, lumbering and mining–constitute crimes against the […]
Human-wildlife conflicts are a challenge for authorities in African countries where people live near protected areas. Programmes for communities to participate in wildlife tourism and share its benefits have been put forward as one solution. Those benefits are substantial in Tanzania. Wildlife tourism is a major source of foreign revenue for the country. In 2021, […]
Gaborone — Botswana is galvanising the support of southern African countries to lobby against moves by Europe to ban the import of wildlife trophies from Africa. The southern African country, its local communities and the Botswana Wildlife Producers Association said it was important to amplify voices against Europe’s efforts to ban trophy hunting. Trophy hunting […]