Tsetse Control in Livestock Projects

This chapter discusses the abandonment of “tsetse control operations” as the war of self-liberation intensified, into the fog of war in which the methods designed for mhesvi and other pests are extended to those vatema viewed as varwi verusununguko (freedom fighters) and those designated magandanga (terrorists). This does not mean all vatema and all vachena shared the same perspective or that all freedom fighters behaved consistently with that description but the majority did. This lumping together of “problem animals” and “problem people” into “vermin beings” justified the extension and slippage of instruments and methods from zvipukanana to the dehumanized munhu, whose elimination constituted a form of pest control.

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Community participation in tsetse control: the principles, potential and practice.

The trypanosomiases ◽

10.1079/9780851994758.0533 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 533-546 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

R. D. Dransfield ◽

R. Brightwell

Keyword(s):

Community Participation ◽

Tsetse Control

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The relative attractiveness of donkeys, cattle, sheep and goats to Glossina morsitans morsitans Westwood and G. pallidipes Austen (Eiptera: Glossinidae) in a middle-veld area of Rhodesia

Bulletin of Entomological Research ◽

10.1017/s0007485300009470 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 68 (3) ◽

pp. 497-500 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

W. P. Boyt ◽

P. K. I. MacKenzie ◽

R. D. Pilson

Keyword(s):

Glossina Morsitans Morsitans ◽

Glossina Morsitans ◽

Host Preferences ◽

Tsetse Control ◽

Sheep And Goats ◽

Wild Game ◽

Relative Attractiveness ◽

Grazing Area ◽

A Minor ◽

Blood Meals

AbstractThe comparative attractiveness to Glossina morsitans morsitans Westw. and G. pallidipes Aust. of donkeys, cattle, sheep and goats in the presence of wild game was examined during two investigations in a middle-veld area of Rhodesia. Host preferences were assessed by the identification of blood-meals collected in the grazing area. Both cattle and donkeys provided a high proportion of the diet. Sheep and particularly goats were fed upon to a minor degree. The significance of the findings is discussed in relation to tsetse control.

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Present day status and future of nature conservation in the Republic of Malawi

Koedoe ◽

10.4102/koedoe.v20i2.1277 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

Author(s):

D.G. Anstey Anstey ◽

A.J. Hall-Martin Hall-Martin

Keyword(s):

Nature Conservation ◽

National Parks ◽

Wildlife Conservation ◽

Colonial Administration ◽

Tsetse Control ◽

Benign Neglect ◽

Game Reserve ◽

The Status ◽

Game Fish ◽

The Republic

When Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) became independent in 1964 the status and future of its game reserves were in jeopardy. The former administration had adopted a policy of benign neglect towards the country's wildlife areas (Anon 1963), and the remnants of the Department of Game, Fish and Tsetse Control had been absorbed by the Forestry Department in 1963. Fortunately the Life President of Malawi, Dr H Kamuzu Banda, took a strong interest in wildlife conservation and it was only his personal intervention, and the advent of independence, that saved the former Lengwe Game Reserve from deproclamation (Hayes 1967) as planned by the colonial administration. With the Life President's encouragement and the dedicated efforts of the staff responsible for wildlife, the tide which had been running strongly against nature conservation was turned, culminating in the establishment of a separate Department of National Parks and Wildlife only a decade after independence.

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