CRC Future Rural Africa and ERC Project Rewilding the Anthropocene Jointly Contribute to Exhibition at the Wiesbaden Museum
Future Rural Africa Project A04 Future Conservation and the ERC project “Rewilding the Anthropocene” are featured in the current exhibition at the Wiesbaden Museum titled “The Hare is the Death of the Hunter Culture and Nature of Southern Africa”. The exhibition is centered around the evolving relationship between humans and nature in Southern Africa.
Both research projects are investigating the complex socio-ecological relationships within the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA), the second-largest terrestrial conservation area in the world. KAZA spans five countries (Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) and is home to approximately 220,000 elephants, the largest contiguous elephant population on Earth. These elephants migrate across protected areas, often traversing villages, fields, and roads, leading to frequent human-wildlife interaction. To mitigate conflicts, modern technologies such as GPS collars, camera traps, satellite imagery, and aerial surveys are used to monitor elephant migration routes, distributions, and population sizes. These data significantly impact management strategies, hunting quotas, and landscape planning, including the protection of wildlife corridors.
