Posted by Chris & Mathilde Stuart on Friday, January 22, 2016,
Over the last few days we went through our scientific papers, scanning those still only in old paper format to keep and to put them all onto our webpage (you may have noticed already?). We came across a paper Chris read at the South African Museums Association Conference for Education Officers in Grahamstown in 1983 - some 33 years ago! We would like to share the first section of this paper with you - as nothing has changed (and not much has been achieved) in those 33 years.
"Conservation Edu...
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Posted by Chris & Mathilde Stuart on Tuesday, January 19, 2016,
Up to 2014 game prices in South Africa soared, driven by a
small number of wealthy buyers. Some game species saw prices at auctions soar
by 5 times over the course of six years. In that year game ranching was valued
at over 12 billion Rand. One saw the likes of billionaires Anton Rupert paying
the obscene price of R 40 million for a single Buffalo bull, Cyril Ramaphosa
joined the fray paying similar prices. Then along came the mutant colour forms,
the ‘Golden Wildebeest’ (we have blogged ...
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