Tswalu Kalahari Reserve hosted the 2024 annual meeting of The Long Run, from the 28th of October to 1st of November.
Yves Vanderhaeghen
Conservation is often a hard sell. However, the business of conservation has a heft that appeals to both governments and people looking for pathways out of poverty in Africa.
Climate change biologist Dr Shannon Conradie. Winner of the 2024 $150 000 JWO research grant.
An elephant moves across a boundary. On one side, in Etosha National Park for example, it’s an asset. But then, as it steps over what may sometimes be an imaginary boundary, it’s a cost.
Dr Winnie Kiiru doesn’t go so far as to say that researchers from Europe or America are killing Africans. But if scientists asked the right questions, or stretched their focus a bit, lives could perhaps be saved, she argues.
Professor Kevin Gaston: “our personalised ecologies are in decline”.
Andre Crawford-Brunt’s vision is to build the “Netflix of nature”.
Edith’s Checkerspot butterfly Euphydryas editha. This unlikely champion of resilience is an unglamorous, unadventurous butterfly that normally travels less than a few hundred metres in its two-week life.
Dr Camille Parmesan is a climate change researcher who knows what it feels like to have one’s habitat wither.
His name’s Bond, William Bond, and he says it’s time to put fire to the veld. To save it.