“Expansion is beneficial for a park; breathing is beneficial for a park. In regions where fences have been removed and animals are permitted to roam freely, we observe benefits that extend to the entire ecosystem.”
or over three years, a multidisciplinary team comprising students, scientists, economists and conservationists have been investigating animal movements and migratory patterns in and around Etosha National Park. Leveraging cutting-edge technology and deploying satellite trackers on over 70 animals of different species, they are unravelling a research-backed understanding of these animals' movements and the extent to which they are constrained by boundaries. Astonishingly, their findings reveal that animals are not bound by these barriers. Associate Professor Morgan Hauptfleisch, from the Nature Conservation Department within the Natural Resource Sciences at Namibia University of Science
