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Animal Studies Journal 2021 10(2): [Review] Marcus Byrne and Helen Lunn. Dance of the Dung Beetles: Their Role in Our Changing World. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2019. 228 pp.
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In a meeting of rhino owners, wildlife vets, conservation NGOs, eco-economists, security experts and SANParks organised by Daily Maverick 168, the outline of a conservation framework began to emerge to offset the alarming decline in the number of wild rhinos in South Africa, where most live.
Key to this would be patrolled strongholds within and outside national parks until poaching can be brought under control. We also need a new global narrative that sees all rhinos as an international herd and a biodiversity treasure. And every rhino keeper, state or private, should be regarded as their custodians.
In a previous article we outlined the problems and bitter polarities in the rhino debate. Asking for a relaxation of entrenched positions with a view to solutions, we called together a wide range of people with specialist knowledge.
Call to reset our relationship with nature, taking mankind out of the centre 06 May 2021 - 15:21 By Mila de Villiers
“When a pandemic arises it puts everything that s wrong with our approach to nature and wildlife conservation to the forefront.”
This statement à la award-winning local investigative wildlife journalist and author, Adam Cruise.
Cruise is speaking to me via Zoom from his home on the outskirts of the southern cape seaside town of George about his latest title,
It s Not About the Bats: Conservation, the coronavirus and how we must re-set our relationship with nature.
“Well, no. Not really,” he answers in response to whether the writing of this book happened to be an unfortunate coincidence with regards to a global pandemic.
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Staff at a Lichfield care home say there is “light at the end of the tunnel” after receiving the first dose of their coronavirus vaccine.
The Spires care home
Residents and workers at The Spires are among the first batch of locals to receive the COVID-19 jabs.
General manager Amy Doyle said the vaccinations had “lifted spirits” after the challenges of the coronavirus crisis.
“Last year was a year like no other and the vaccine feels like the light at the end of the tunnel.