I.P.A. Manning

• Doctor of Wildlife Management
• Private

Research into the ecology of the sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekei Rothschild, 1898.) in the south-east Bangweulu, Zambia, was carried out between 1973 and 1976. The sex ratio for sitatunga does not differ significantly from 1:1, although 47.3% of the population are adult females and 25.6% adult males, 12.1% immature males, 4.3% immature females and 10...

Volume I of God’s Country, Plunderers of Eden, is a conservation history-cum-memoir of Zambia – and briefly, of other parts of Africa. I have always been motivated by a sense of adventure and a spiritual need for places wild and free and filled with big game. Latterly, I became more focused on the indigenous people who live with wildlife: on Bantu...

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. Since then, Zambia has become a vassal and subsidiar...

Zambia is either customary land (94%) under some measure of control by chiefs and headmen, or state land (6%), comprising protected areas and land held under 99-year leasehold. Protected areas and their resources are prone to alienation by the state for mining, forestry, fisheries and wildlife exploitation. Customary land comprises villages and the...

A pilot game cropping operation on Talana Ranch in Botswana was carried out in 1967 with the permission of the Department of Wildlife, National Parks and Tourism by Wildlife Management (Botswana) Pty Limited.

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.