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October 1, 2019 In Conservation & Wildlife Management, Editorial, Featured, October 2019 - Volume I-4, Rural Communities & Hunting By Gerhard R. Damm

Protectionist NGOs Obstruct Real Conservation–And the Dunning-Kruger Effect keeps them in power

By Gerhard R. Damm

READ TIME 9 MINS

Through social media, protectionist NGOs are flourishing. Anti-hunting groups broadly refuse—or refute—scientific research and often ignore socio-economic factors while collecting millions in donations and saddling range states and rural communities with high conservation costs. It doesn’t have to be this way.READ MORE

October 1, 2019 In Conservation & Wildlife Management, Editorial, News from the Regions, October 2019 - Volume I-4 By Silvio Calabi

Hunting & Social Media: Namibia Has a Position on That–Today’s hunters must take the Worldwide Web into account

By Silvio Calabi

READ TIME 4 MINS

Social media posts of happy hunters with dead animals often dismay anti-hunters and non-hunters alike, with predictable negative consequences. Namibia’s Ministry of Tourism and Environment, which regulates that country’s safari trade, has said it wants to ban such posts outright. NAPHA, Namibia’s professional hunting body, has countered with a social-media code of conduct. All hunters everywhere should think long and hard before publicizing trophy photos.READ MORE

July 1, 2019 In Conservation & Wildlife Management, Editorial, July 2019 - Volume I-3, Rural Communities & Hunting By Malan Lindeque & Rosalia Iileka

Conservation First

By Malan Lindeque & Rosalia Iileka

READ TIME 10 MINS

This editorial highlights the “trial by ordeal” that hunting is now being subjected to and asks some questions of those who engineer global anti-hunting campaigns. What will happen to biodiversity and rural communities if hunting is consigned to the dustbin of history? The hunting community also faces stark choices. Hunters not conforming to long-term sustainability objectives—those who do not put conservation first, and who fail to convey a convincing message—will self-destruct. Malan Lindeque and Rosalia Iileka suggest solutions.READ MORE

July 1, 2019 In Conservation & Wildlife Management, Editorial, July 2019 - Volume I-3 By Silvio Calabi

The Yellowstone Bison Range War – As the Old West collides with the New, America’s icon, the bison, is caught in the middle

By Silvio Calabi

READ TIME 12 MINS

The American bison’s near-miraculous revival sprang from handfuls of animals in ranches, zoos and national parks. Yellowstone National Park today holds several thousand bison, but neighboring states do not allow them entry for fear of spreading disease to domestic cattle. In response, excess bison are slaughtered—a practice that is being called the “second persecution of the American bison.” Allowing bison to repopulate the West is a complex and challenging issue that involves many stakeholders. African nations such as Botswana and Namibia can show the US how to accomplish this.READ MORE

How The Truth On Community Wildlife Conservation In Namibia Is Twisted
April 1, 2019 In April 2019 - Volume I-2, Editorial, News from the Regions, Rural Communities & Hunting By Gerhard R Damm

How The Truth On Community Wildlife Conservation In Namibia Is Twisted

By Gerhard R Damm

On February 26th, 2019 Mongabay.com (‘News & Inspiration from Nature’s Frontline’) published an unusually long article called “It pays, but does it stay? Hunting in Namibia’s community conservation system”, replete with photos, graphs, statistics and videos. In it, the author, John Grobler, heaped scathing criticism on Namibia’s Wildlife Conservation Model.READ MORE

January 1, 2019 In Editorial, January 2019 - Volume I-1 By Gerhard R Damm & Kai Wollscheid

The Future for Hunting

By Gerhard R Damm & Kai Wollscheid

The best chance to secure social acceptance for hunting lies primarily in the transparent implementation of and compliance with scientifically grounded sustainability rules, secondly in the full recognition of the role of local rural people in wildlife management, and thirdly in the behavior of hunters in the field and how they present themselves to the public. These three tenets, important as they are individually and in combination, should be adaptable and sensitive to varying local cultural, political and social contexts, and integrate local knowledge and cultural practices.READ MORE