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What does fieldwork in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area look like? What do academic scholars have to say about the biodiversity crisis the world is facing? Visit our blog to read more about rewilding news from our research projects and beyond. In this blog, we share stories and reflections from our research, in relation with current events in the world of nature conservation and rewilding.

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Global foot-and-mouth disease control policy and its effects on Botswana’s people and wildlife

Global foot-and-mouth disease control policy and its effects on Botswana’s people and wildlife by Wisse van Engelen Last week the European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (EuFMD) celebrated its 70th anniversary. Launched on ...
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Short film: The Southern Buffalo Fence

Short film: The Southern Buffalo Fence by Wisse van Engelen Disease transmission is an often overlooked form of human-wildlife conflict, yet animal diseases and veterinary interventions often mediate human-wildlife relations. As part of my PhD ...
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Removing fences, reintroducing herding: how the redomestication of cattle may lead to wilder landscapes

Removing fences, reintroducing herding: how the redomestication of cattle may lead to wilder landscapes by Wisse van Engelen The picture above shows a common sight in Botswana. Cattle are often seen straying along roads, as ...
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Beastly Tension

Beastly Tension by Manuel Bollmann Tierische Anspannung, in German, can be translated to both the title of this blog entry and the ‘operation of a draught animal’, as it is commonly used in South Asia, ...
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Dealing with research fatigue and expectations during fieldwork

Dealing with research fatigue and expectations during fieldwork A personal reflection by Julia Brekl The village youth participating in a CV-writing workshop hold by the researcher It can be one of the greatest challenges of ...
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New publication: “Complexities of multispecies coexistence”

New publication: “Complexities of multispecies coexistence: Animal diseases and diverging modes of ordering at the wildlife–livestock interface in Southern Africa” by Wisse van Engelen The full text, published in Environment and Planning E: Nature and ...
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Rewilding for whom? Coexisting with wildlife against the biodiversity crisis

Rewilding for whom? Coexisting with wildlife against the biodiversity crisis by Léa Lacan & Michael Bollig Wildebeests in the Simalaha conservancy (Zambia) – Picture by Léa Lacan 01.04.2023 Global leaders are currently meeting in Montreal with ...
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