Research

Deon Furstenburg, ‘n ekoloog en dierkundige, sê die aantal olifante in die Krugerwildtuin is te groot. Hy voorspel dat die hele ekologie binne tien jaar onherroeplik sal verander as hulle nie dringend uitgedun word nie.

How booming elephant numbers are reshaping SA’s savanna trees

NO TALL STORY: Nelson Mandela University researchers tracked more than 3,500 trees over nearly two decades in the 75,000ha Madikwe Game Reserve and revealed how a burgeoning elephant population, together with medium-sized browsers such as impala, are altering the very architecture of the landscape. Pictured is one of the study’s authors, Dietre Stols