Recent content by Ian Manning

Ecology of the Sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekei selousi Rothschild, 1898) in the Bangweulu swamps, Zambia, Central Africa. M.Sc. thesis, Acadia University, 1983. Research into the ecology of the sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekei Rothschild, 1898.) in the south-east Bangweulu, Zambia, was carried out...

Preface Zambia is a territory that has moved from aboriginal occupation by Bushmen and Pygmy to invasions by Bantu tribes and then colonized in 1889 by the British South Africa Chartered Company. In 1924, it became the British Protectorate of Northern Rhodesia, and in 1964, it became the...

Zambia The Open Pit provides my blogs covering much of the daily detail of my conflict with the Zambian government and my fight for the rights of customary people and their wildlife in the years 2003-2010, further revealed in GOD’S COUNTRY: Vol I - Plunderers of Eden. Please see attached PDF...

Zambia is a territory that has moved successively from an aboriginal occupancy by Bushmen and Pygmy, then by Bantu tribes, followed in 1889 by the British South Africa Chartered Company. In 1924, it became the British Protectorate of Northern Rhodesia and in 1964, the independent state of...

Zambia is a territory that has moved successively from an aboriginal occupancy by Bushmen and Pygmy, then by Bantu tribes, followed in 1889 by the British South Africa Chartered Company. In 1924, it became the British Protectorate of Northern Rhodesia and in 1964, the independent state of...

Nothing is being done to rectify the description of hunting in Zambia (21 November 2024).

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Lovely to hear of Peter Capstick again, remembering our wonderful days together in 1969 at Nyampala, my safari camp in the Luangwa Valley, where he started in Africa. By coincidence, I had just begun re-reading my unpublished novel 'Digby of Africa' - based at Nyampala - in which I mentioned the...

Bwana Hunting Hitman, Happy Myles & ThumbsUp, Thank you all for your kind appreciation of a bit of hunting history of Northern Rhodesia and Zambia. I knew and worked with some wonderful people in much of Africa from the early 1960s up until my last safari as a PH in 2005. Yes, Happy Myles, I...

A short Zambia hunting history 1 Ivory hunters By 1870 the slave export trade, allied with the ivory trade and paid for in firearms and calico, massively reduced the elephant population in Africa. For example, in the Zambezi and Luangwa valleys, one of the Zambezi muzungu (mixed race)...

J.E, Hughes operated hunting safaris in the S.E. Bangweulu in Northern Rhodesia from 1911-1919. He then gave it all up, moving to Port Elizabeth for good. The rhino was shot near the Luambatwa River at its source, not far from the Luangwa Escarpment. The last rhino were killed there in 1973 (and...

Hello! Last their physically 7 June 2008; otherwise always there while the candle burns.

The discomfort affects some of those who are involved with hunting safaris, or - like me - who have been involved in both hunting and conservation management and research there on and off from 1966 to 2008, and who understand the importance of securing a value for wildlife and wild country that...

Will do VertigoBE

cbvanb, Thanks for your note. Glad you found a copy of the hard-copy first edition. The second edition is out on ebook and PDF, and am in the throes of getting set up for hard copy as well. My two-volume book, God's Country, covers the personal and political side of hunting in several African...