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Theses and Dissertations (Centre for Wildlife Management): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-03-27)The world is losing its wildness – in the form of both wilderness areas and the ecological functioning of wildlife populations. While most literature investigates this loss as the negative consequences for biodiversity ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Globally, carnivores face countless threats; and in some cases, these threats are worsened by a lack of population data. In South Africa, conservation has become largely confined to small, fenced, protected areas. It is ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013-10)The African lion, Panthera leo, has suffered dramatic population and range declines over the last few decades and is listed as Vulnerable to extinction by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Quantification ...
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Veldtipes, verspreiding van die groter soogdiere, en enkele aspekte van die ekologie van Kaokoland (University of Pretoria, 1980)Initiated in 1975, the purpose of this study was to obtain basic ecological information needed for the conservation, management and utilization of the fauna and flora of Kaokoland, S.W.A. Accordingly the vegetation of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1997)The Grassland biome of South Africa is ofmajor importance to this country's agriculture, mining and conservation practices. The extent of urbanisation and economic activity within this biome has led to the destruction ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)Growing populations, urbanization, environmental awareness with resultant regulations and water scarcity have resulted in a search for alternative water sources. Municipal wastewater reclamation and reuse is a necessity ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1988)Philosophical, general, physiographical, climatological, biotic and plant ecological aspects as well as the availability of browse and the habitat preferences of the larger animals were investigated to serve as a basis ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-08-14)Black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) are classified as critically endangered on the IUCN red data list (IUCN 2010). In Ndumo Game Reserve in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, a black rhino population has seen a decline ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011-05-25)The African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) is one of Africa’s most endangered species, with fewer than 5,000 individuals surviving in the wild. Most of the remaining populations are increasingly fragmented and small, making ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2009-03-02)Please read the abstract in the section 06back of this document
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-02-22)The black lechwe Kobus leche smithemani) is an antelope that belongs to the family reduncinae. Its current population is confined to the Bangweulu Basin in the northern Zambia. This research was undertaken to assess its ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1999)The range use behaviour and activity patterns of a single herd of disease-free Cape buffalo Syncerus caffer in the Willem Pretorius Game Reserve, Free State, was investigated. This reserve falls outside the historical ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-12-07)Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-09-07)This study was conducted in the ‘Uruq Bani Ma’arid Protected Area, on the western edge of the ‘Rub al Khali of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The dispersal of different groups of Arabian oryx Oryx leucoryx (Pallas, 1777) was ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-09-07)Five lions were reintroduced to the Welgevonden Private Game Reserve in 1998. These lions were studied to increase the limited knowledge of the ecology of reintroduced lions on small wildlife reserves, and to provide ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-02-01)This study was done in the communal area surrounding Makoko village and in the adjacent conservation area within the Kruger National Park, Mpumalanga province, South Africa. The structure of the woody vegetation within the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-01-31)The food selection pattern of zebra and blue wildebeest in terms of quality and quantity was studied in the Northern Province Lowveld on a site originating from gabbro geological formations. At the same time a comparison ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1979)The study area lies in the central Okavango Delta, Botswana, and was proclaimed a game reserve extension on 2nd July 1976. Peoples of Khoisanoid origin first colonized the area. Bantu speaking baYei followed in about 1750 ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011-06-27)The outlook for Nile crocodiles in the Olifants River does not look optimistic. Since the increase in capacity of the Loskop and Flag Boshielo Dams, the crocodile population was left with no basking or nesting sites and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011-06-23)This dissertation both proposes and records the ongoing implementation of a ‘Landsafe’ integrated conservation and development model for the customary commons of Zambia. In Volume I, a geographical historical perspective ...
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