(Posted 12th June 2026)
Courtesy of African Elephant News
| Fred Kockott, Daily Maverick (South Africa), June 9, 2026 |
| If you expect to see a typical commercial cattle ranch at Shangani Holistic in Zimbabwe, you are in for a shock. Instead of neatly fenced, homogenous meadows, you find a 65,000-hectare open savanna where 7,700 commercial cattle graze side-by-side with roughly 3,500 wild animals, including zebras, giraffes, leopards and migrating herds of elephant. For Dr Elizabeth le Roux, an associate professor at the University of Aarhus, the contrast with European cattle production landscapes – where farmland is often tightly managed and uniform – is stark. |
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