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Researchers found a startling 87 benefits accrued from elephants beyond conventional uses such as hunting, poaching and tourism.

That’s the advice of Professor Rob Slotow, who says protected areas need to be sufficiently diverse and robust.

Because of their size and visible effects on vegetation, Kruger Park’s elephants are a highly emotive subject, fuelling acrimonious debates, cries of ‘too many elephants’ and ‘Kruger has an elephant problem’ — followed by demands for ‘unavoidable culling’. The reality is far mor...

PRESIDENT Samia Suluhu Hassan has approved the release of 1.2bn/- to build 19 special wildlife warden outposts near game protected areas and national parks to control incursions of wildlife on farms and homesteads across the country.

People exposed to a disaster in their communities are likely to experience depression in the long-term with black Africans, women, those who are illiterate and the poor at greatest risk, a University of KwaZulu Natal study suggests.