Dexter Chilunda, head of law enforcement at Liuwa Plain National Park in Zambia, was on May 23, 2014 “on duty, making checks on the camps in the park, when he was shot dead by unknown people,” believed to have been poachers, Zambia Wildlife Authority spokesperson Readith Muliyunda told media. Liuwa Plain National Park is managed […]
Anthony Hall Martin, 68, founder of African Parks Foundation
Anthony Hall-Martin, 68, died of cancer on May 21, 2014. Author of 10 books and more than 80 published scientific papers, Hall-Martin during a long tenure as chief of conservation development for the South African National Park Service led the establishment of Table Mountain National Park, overlooking Cape Town, and other national parks including Agulhas, […]
Evictions to clear a park in Ethiopia
New Scientist columnist accuses African Parks Foundation While land invasions and their aftermath destroy the remnants of wildlife protection in Zimbabwe, the African Parks Foundation has reportedly introduced to Ethiopia the heavy-handed relocation of longtime land occupants in the name of conservation that helped to create the pressures leading to the Zimbabwean debacle. “Ethiopia wants […]