It is a sad irony that our universities have become repositories of intellectual rigidity and severely limited intellectual space. I can’t say anything about the privately-owned and run conservancies, but the so-called ‘community conservancies’ are instruments of disenfranchisement of our people. Other examples are white people eating ‘game meat’ and black people eating ‘bush meat’, white ‘hunters’ and black ‘poachers’ and so forth. Fencing them is violence against locals; a policy failure that is bad for conservation because conservation requires the buy-in of local people to achieve any long-term success.Yes, literally. But I speculate that it may have been disturbance by the SGR construction work and permanent human presence in the park.

Source: Standard Digital August 29, 2020 09:33 UTC