Black Lechwe magazine is the journal of the Wildlife and Environmental Conservation Society of Zambia. Black lechwe magazine focuses on wildlife and environmental conservation issues in Zambia.
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So what is the point of this diatribe? The point is by paying attention to the changes in our own immediate ecosystem, the ectoparasites in the hippopotamus, the mysteries of the straw-coloured fruit bat, the Lukushashi River Floods, deforestation, population growth, destructive agricultural practices and the air travel that tourism involves. We can perhaps draw attention of our colleagues and peers to the bigger picture. So when the apocalypse happens we can at the very least acknowledge that we were the masters of our own demise. I don’t think the dinosaurs were privileged with this insight.
George Allison
Executive Committee Chairman
Date: q406
NEWS
PROFILE
EMELIA PHIRI SUNKUTU, ENVIRONMENTAL LAW EXPERT
ABBREVIATIONS
BOOK REVIEW
CAMPS
NOTES
Honey Badger kills Sharpe’s Grysbok
PUCHWE WELCOMED AT KASANKA park
OBITUARY
BRANCH NEWS
BRANCH NEWS
Lusaka
FEATURES
CHUMAMABOKO, FIRST OF THE CENTRAL AFRICAN PROFESSIONAL HUNTERS
Ian Manning
COMMENT
WECSZ CALLS FOR HALT TO LEGACY HOLDINGS DEVELOPMENT IN LIVINGSTONE
F. P. D. Cotterill
J. Zool., Lond. (2005) 265, 113–132 C_ 2005 The Zoological Society of London Printed in the United Kingdom DOI:10.1017/S0952836904006193
CHALLENGES AND OPPPRTUNITIES OF BIOFUELS PRODUCTION AND USE FROM SOUTHERN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE
By Prof F.D.Yamba, Centre for Energy, Environment and Engineering, Lusaka
Just for the record
An article written by Peter Leonard (pete@pleonard3.wanadoo.co.uk) for ZOS in January 2002
The Story of Chongololo - Part II
By Ian Tanner
NEWS
CONSERVATION NEWS
• The Natural Resources Consultative Forum (NRCF) has resolved that no elephant sport hunting (ESH) should be conducted in Zambia in 2006. The minutes of the meeting on January 10 at which the decision was taken were widely circulated. An advisory note, and the minutes of the NRCF ESH meeting, were sent by the NRCF to the Ministry of Tourism, Environment and Natural Resources (MTENR), followed by a meeting between the NRCF chairman and the minister. Meanwhile, an auction took place in April at the Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) offices of ten of the 20 elephant for sport hunting (the other ten being taken up by the concessionaires where they had been made available).
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To spearhead environmental awareness at all levels of the community, promote the wise use of natural resources, and to be the most effective independent environmental action group in Zambia.
History
The Wildlife and Environmental Conservation Society of Zambia (WECSZ) was founded in 1953 by concerned members of the hunting fraternity as the Game Preservation and Hunting Association (GPHA). In 1962 the GPHA changed its name to the Wildlife Conservation Society of Northern Rhodesia (WCSNR), reflecting the increasing urbanisation of its members.
In 1964 when Zambia gained independence it changed its name again to the Wildlife Conservation Society of Zambia (WCSZ), with the former Zambian Republican President Dr Kenneth Kaunda as its first patron.
In 1995 the society, recognising its broadened environmental responsibilities, became the Wildlife and Environmental Conservation Society of Zambia (WECSZ), and remains the country’s oldest charitable membership-based non-governmental organisation dedicated to environmental conservation.
Activities
A key element of our Environmental Education Programme is the production of environmental education material such as the Chongololo and Chipembele magazines, distributed free to schools and community-based Chongololo and Conservation clubs in Zambia.
These printed materials are supported by a weekly environmental commentary column, “Environmental Notes by Warthog”, in the Sunday Times of Zambia, and the Chongololo Club of the Air, a weekly Sunday lunchtime radio programme on Radio 2. This programme has a declared membership of over 80,500, with countless passive listeners countrywide, making it probably the largest environmental radio club in Africa.
The WECSZ has been a proud recipient of the prestigious Global 500 Award on June 5, 1990 (now called the Champions of the Earth Award) from the United Nations Environment programme (UNEP), for its conservation efforts.
The society also actively seeks to get engaged in supporting wildlife research, environmental monitoring and practical conservation, as well as awareness campaigns, advocacy, lobbying and training.
Members also receive a free copy of the quarterly Black Lechwe magazine.
Date: q406
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