Research undertaken in South Africa’s Kwazulu-Natal province by an international team of wildlife ecologists has confirmed the value of privately-owned nature reserves and game farms in conserving free-ranging carnivorous animals but also highlighted the fundamental role of formal (national and provincial) parks. The team further included traditional communal lands in their study. The lead author of the research paper was PhD student Gonçalo Curveira-Santos of the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (abbreviated to cE3c) at Lisbon University in Portugal. The other members of the team were University of Venda Department of Zoology Professor Lourens Swanepoel, Chris Sutherland of the Department of Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the US and Margarida Santos-Reis also from the cE3c at Lisbon University.
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