by Adam Cruise | Aug 10, 2022 | News
By Mqondisi Dube, VOA News Five southern African countries, with more than half the continent’s elephants, are conducting a first-ever aerial census to determine the elephant population and how to protect it. Light aircraft will fly simultaneously across the...
by Adam Cruise | Nov 22, 2021 | News
By Donald Matthys, Namibia Economist The partner states of the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA), Namibia, Botswana, Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe last week launched the first-ever coordinated aerial survey of elephants in Windhoek. Speaking at...
by Adam Cruise | Aug 24, 2021 | News
By Ellanie Smit – The Namibian Sun Preparations for a Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA)-wide synchronised aerial survey have been stepped up to determine accurate numbers and seasonal distributions of African elephants found in the...
by Adam Cruise | Aug 16, 2021 | News
By Leonard Ncube, The Herald / All Africa The Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA-TFCA) requires about US$3 million to conduct an elephant census through an aerial survey before the end of the year. KAZA secretariat executive director, Dr Nyambe...
by Adam Cruise | Nov 4, 2020 | News
By Mbongeni Mguni – Bloomberg Green Botswana may have found a solution to its elephant overpopulation: It’s going to encourage some of them to leave the country. Botswana’s tourism industry, which accounts for a fifth of the economy, is heavily reliant on the...