News & Updates
WEST & EAST AFRICA – MARCH 2025
This March we were contracted to do some restoration project evaluations in Rwanda, Ghana and Kenya. This was in support of an international restoration institute who have many restoration projects spread over Africa and elsewhere. We started in northern Rwanda, based...
SOUTHERN NAMIBIA – APRIL 2025
CMS was contracted to prepare a management plan for a newly established (private) conservation area in southern Namibia. The area consists of rugged mountains and sandy plains just north of the orange river and not far from the Vioolsdrif/Noordoewer border crossing...
NORTHERN MALAWI – JANUARY 2025
We undertook a 6th field visit to northern Malawi to assist a restoration NGO with their restoration project in Miombo woodlands where decades of tree felling to make charcoal had left the land barren and had resulted in severe soil erosion. A number of years ago we...
A FIELD RANGER’S HANDBOOK
Compiled by Ken Coetzee, Wallie Stroebel and Div de Villiers. The handbook was completed in mid- 2025 and is a practical guideline for operational field rangers in Africa. We had the book published and printed with a donation from Megafreight supported by the Pure...
Visit to a western Serengeti hunting concession area, part of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania.
The stone inselbergs and woodlands of the western Serengeti area. A landscape without fences for hundreds, if not thousands of kilometres. Our brief in this magnificent area was to do an ecological and management evaluation of a private hunting concession area that is...
Matetsi Game Reserve, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.
Elephants are “landscapers” in this dry savanna woodland. Tasked with an evaluation of a private hunting concession, one of seven in the Matetsi conservation area, run by the Zimbabwe wildlife authority. Our visit was during the dry season, which in this part of the...