During the quarter of a century succeeding the year 1871 (during which I first visited South Africa) the range of the buffalo had been very much curtailed, but up to 1896 these animals were still numerous in many of the uninhabited parts of the country, and especially so in the Pungwe river district of... »
At CITES 1989 the delegates were told that it would cost US $ 200 per square kilometer to protect Africa’s elephants in their natural habitats against commercial poachers. And that to similarly protect black rhinos it would cost a staggering US $ 1 200 per square kilometer. The cost of applying these protective measures... »
The 15th Conference of the Parties of CITES was held in Doha in March. The results from the hunting community perspective were mixed. On the positive side, the U.S. proposal to Uplist polar bear to Appendix I was soundly defeated as it should have been. Kenya’s proposal that no country make any further proposal... »
There would be a carrot-and-a-stick incentive in this agreement to which the local people would have to agree if they wanted the benefits. The carrot would be the community levies. The stick would be the high cost to the community of every animal found poached. This penalty would be the removal from the quota... »
Dr. Dale E. Toweill is a wildlife manager, author and hunter-conservationist who will be a tremendous asset to Conservation Force. We are lucky to draw professionals with his talent and experience. Dale has spent more than 30 years managing wildlife in the West. As the statewide leader of trophy species programs for the state... »
Natives, whose villages are on a big river or lake, live almost entirely on fish. The smaller streams and dambos, which dry up in the dry weather, they stake across at intervals, to prevent the fish from escaping, and when only a small pool is left, as the dry weather progresses, they spear the... »
The park undertook, also, to upgrade the people’s agricultural endeavors and to help to build the schools and clinics and whatever else the people needed, through an innovative national-park-sponsored NGO program. Huntable male animals, earmarked for culling, would NOT be culled. Instead they would be killed by high-fee-paying hunters, in special hunting zones within... »
The 2007 USF&WS regulation against the import of “crafted” or “worked” trophies of listed species is being litigated in Federal District Court in Atlanta and New York. In both cases, hunters’ Appendix II elephant tusks were seized because they had the Big Five scrimshawed/pencil etched on one surface. Conservation Force has filed motions to... »
As was to be expected, the rhinoceroses were the first to go, but the buffaloes, in spite of their prodigious numbers in many parts of South Africa only a generation ago, did not long survive them, for wherever the epidemic of rinderpest penetrated in 1896 it almost completely destroyed all the buffaloes which up... »
