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  • 3 - Elephants and Humans in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

  • from Part 2 - The Evolution of Pre-Colonial Environmental Infrastructure
  • Michael Bollig
  • Book:
    Shaping the African Savannah
    Published online:
    22 June 2020
    Print publication:
    02 July 2020, pp 49-66

  • Summary

    The third chapter deals with the three centuries immediately preceding the colonial annexation of the region. These three decades and especially the 1890s and the early 1900s are characterised by rampant elephant hunting in the region. The onslaught on north-west Namibia's wildlife brings about massive changes of the social ecological system. Elephants are discussed here as primary landscape architects. Once they were eliminated from the system, human settlement and vegetation dynamics changed and paved the way for the repastoralisation of the region. The chapter also depicts how international interest in ivory, ravenous elephant hunters, and deprived local communities concur to prepare for major changes in the environmental infrastructures of the region.