The best solution would be for African governments to enter into long-term 50/50 partnership agreements with Black Economic Empowerment business enterprises. Government should provide the land, the habitats, the animals and the basic policy guidelines – and it should retain a watchdog role to ensure that the principles of the national wildlife policies are not... »

In March, Conservation Force began accepting sponsorships from select commercial-industry service entities. This was a long time coming but is a natural progression. Partnerships between the commercial and non-profit conservation communities are renowned in the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. The best example is the 12 percent excise tax imposed on all firearms,... »

Even in my own time all the great game of Southern Africa was in places still abundant, and a scene, which I once witnessed in October 1873, will never fade from my memory. I was at that time hunting elephants in the country to the south-east of the Victoria Falls, and one afternoon, when approaching... »

National parks, today, are becoming ever more complicated business enterprises with sometimes-huge personnel establishments; and unless they are run as successful businesses, in the long term, they will not survive. People skills -how to manage people – is, therefore, one of the most important attributes that the head of a national park organization needs... »

There have been a number of seizures of elephant tusks for various reasons and litigation is building across the country. Tusks from Zimbabwe have been seized in Atlanta and New York because they were scrimshawed with the Big Five on one side. The legal identification markings were not affected by the surface-deep etching and... »

Elephant populations once extended over most of Africa, including what is now the Sahara desert. Today they are confined to sub-Saharan Africa where they occupy a total area of around five million sq kilometers. Their range is rapidly diminishing in the face of an exploding human population desperate for more and more land. International... »

With the wealth of information, which must be stored in the native’s mind about animals and their ways, it is with the utmost difficulty that any of it can be elicited. If asked a question, he is so occupied with trying to give you the answer you want, trying not to give himself away... »

What I am about to say applies more to the rest of Africa than it does to South Africa, at this time. Nevertheless, in due course, it will apply to South Africa, too. So this chapter is not out of context with the South African situation. Although South Africa’s wildlife management practices are more... »

The Professional Hunters Association of Africa also recognized Eric Pasanisi for his uncommon leadership in conservation of the African lion. They awarded him the prestigious Ox of Okavango Conservation Award and $5,000. The funds are contributed by Triangle Bar Farms Corp./Fred P. Mannix. Eric in turn chose that the funds be directed to Conservation... »

Since the first settlement of Europeans at the Cape of Good Hope in the seventeenth century, two species of the indigenous fauna of South Africa have become absolutely extinct These are the blaauwbok (Hippotragus ietuaphaeus) and the true quagga (Equus quagga). Both these animals, however, were nearly related to species which still exist in... »