WTMC24: WILDLIFE & TOURISM MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE
PROGRAM

Days: Sunday, October 20th Monday, October 21st Tuesday, October 22nd

Sunday, October 20th

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18:00-20:00 Session 1: Opening Reception and Registration

Opening Reception and Registration

Location: AK1
18:00
Registration
18:20
Wecome remarks
18:30
Finger Dinner
Monday, October 21st

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08:00-09:00 Session 2: Official opening
Chair:
Location: AK1
08:00
National and AU Anthems
08:10
Welcome to Zambezi region
08:40
Keynote Address
09:10
Closing remarks
09:20
Living in harmony with wildlife: benefit, costs and challenges
09:50-10:10Coffee Break and Cultural performance
10:10-10:40 Session 3: Plenary session
Chair:
Location: AK1
10:10
Sustainable tourism at a landscape level: the case of Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area
10:40-13:00 Session 4A: Parallel session
Discussant:
Location: AK1
10:40
Landscape ecological predictors for sympatric large carnivore predation on livestock around makgadikgadi/nxai national parks, botswana (abstract)
PRESENTER: Lucas Rutina
10:55
Does de-bushing restore the abundance and diversity of small mammals in bush-encroached rangelands? (abstract)
PRESENTER: Moses Okombo
11:10
Impact of bush thinning on the vegetation structure and soil properties of otjiwa game farm, otjozondjupa region, namibia (abstract)
11:25
Effects of fire season, and occurrence on the tree density across fire treatments at Makambu Fire Experimental site, Kavango West Region, Namibia (abstract)
PRESENTER: Eva Kasinda
11:40
Vegetative and reproductive biomass allocation responses of herbaceous species to drought in a semi – arid highland savanna (abstract)
11:55
Movement patterns, home range and habitat use of a troop of chacma baboons at tsaobis nature park, erongo, namibia (abstract)
PRESENTER: Punaete Kandjii
10:40-13:00 Session 4B: Parallel session
Discussant:
Location: AK2
10:40
Revitalizing zimbabwe community based wildlife management through sustainable tourism (abstract)
10:55
Crafting Future Pathways: Imagining a Premium Cross-Border Tourism Hub and Alternative Futures in Southern Africa (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mfundo Mlilo
11:10
Stakeholder Perceptions of Wildlife Tourism in Communal Conservancies within the Mudumu North Complex, Zambezi region, Namibia (abstract)
PRESENTER: Maria Shimhanda
11:25
Assessing the Relative Tourism Performance of Namibia using Inbound and Outbound Tourism Data (abstract)
PRESENTER: Stella Matengu
11:40
Investigating the impact of stagnant water sources on mosquito population abundance and malaria transmission in katima mulilo, namibia (abstract)
PRESENTER: Daniel Munyanya
11:55
Effects of pitfall trap spacing on the abundance and diversity of ground dwelling insects in, makanga, zambezi region, namibia. (abstract)
PRESENTER: Vezepa Mbahuma
13:00-14:00Lunch Break and Cultural performance
14:00-14:30 Session 5: Plenary session
Location: AK1
14:00
Wildlife and tourism management as a social ecological complex adaptive system
14:30-15:30 Session 6A: Parallel session
Location: AK1
14:30
Mapping forest fire severity and assessing environmental drivers influencing it in bwabwata national park, zambezi region of namibia (abstract)
PRESENTER: Aune Shigwedha
14:45
Land use change along the walvis bay - ndola - lubumbashi development corridor (WBNLDC) and regional roads in zambezi region, namibia (abstract)
15:00
Enhancing natural resources management through lifelong learning programmes. a case of sikunga conservancy, zambezi region (abstract)
14:30-15:30 Session 6B: Parallel session
Location: AK2
14:30
The significance of the Sikunga Fish Protected Area towards fisheries conservation in the Zambezi River, Namibia (abstract)
PRESENTER: Evans Simasiku
14:45
Epidemiological characteristics of wild animal rabies in Namibia from 2001–2019 (abstract)
PRESENTER: Oscar Madzingira
15:00
Soil eDNA metabarcoding in Africa: an empirical and review studies (abstract)
15:30-15:40Coffee Break
Tuesday, October 22nd

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08:00-08:30 Session 8: Plenary session
08:00
Harnessing a sustainable Blue Economy in Namibia: a case for Fisheries and Aquaculture. (abstract)
08:30-09:50 Session 9: Presentations
Discussant:
Location: AK1
08:30
Assessing home range and land use patterns of african wild dogs in the north-eastern kalahari, namibia (abstract)
PRESENTER: Stella Emvula
08:45
Determinants of landscape and forage selectivity by cattle during the wet season on a farm in central namibia (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sijabuliso Dube
09:00
Assessing tolerance for “problem wildlife” among rural communities of salambala conservancy, namibia (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hilka Kamati
09:15
Comparative effect of fish feeds ( chicken egg yolk, artemia & commercial powdered pellets) on the initial growth and survival rate of juvenile redbreast tilapia (coptodon rendalli) under early hatchery conditions (abstract)
09:30
Assessing the association among moon phase, carnivore distribution and predation on livestock in mudumu landscape, north-eastern namibia. (abstract)
09:50-10:00Coffee Break
10:00-13:00 Session 10A: Parallel session
Discussant:
Location: AK1
10:00
Mapping forest clearing hotspots in the zambezi state forests using supervised classification and random forest machine learning algorithm in google earth engine (GEE) (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jesaya Nakanyala
10:15
Assessing the influence of invasive eucalyptus on ground dwelling insect population and diversity in the zambezi region, namibia (abstract)
PRESENTER: Frank Nyoka
10:30
Assessment of the effects of seasonal fire on shrub vegetation species after two years at makambu experimental fire station, kavango west, namibia (abstract)
PRESENTER: Rosalia Kashala
10:45
Assessing the diet of african wild dog using fecal DNA metabarcoding in bicuar national park, angola (abstract)
PRESENTER: Paulina Shimbu
11:00
Assessment of the genetic diversity and population structure of trophy hunted african leopard (panthera pardus) in namibia. (abstract)
11:15
Diet and human-otter interaction assessment of african clawless otters (aonyx capensis) in different river systems of zambezi region, namibia: towards sustainable coexistence (abstract)
11:30
Comparing ground-dwelling insect populations and diversity between mixed woodland and Eucalyptus-dominated vegetation in the Zambezi region, Namibia. (abstract)
PRESENTER: Frank Nyoka
11:45
Raiders on the fringe: Key factors driving the attacks of three large carnivores on livestock in a southern African edge landscape (abstract)
10:00-13:00 Session 10B: Parallel session
Discussant:
Location: AK2
10:00
Goat Farming and Smallholder Livelihoods in Namibia: A Case Study of Musese Constituency, Kavango West Region (abstract)
10:15
Analysis of indigenous chicken rearing system in the rural household of Ohangwena region, Namibia (abstract)
10:30
Using Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) to understand seasonal dynamics of habitat suitability and crop raiding of elephants in the Kavango Zambezi-TFCA (abstract)
10:45
Comparing tree plant functional traits and species diversity along an increasing rainfall gradient in northern namibia (abstract)
11:00
Preliminary assessment of heavy metals contamination of sediments in Lake Liambezi (abstract)
PRESENTER: James Abah
11:15
Density and abundance estimation of unmarked ungulates using camera traps in the Mudumu National Park, Namibia (abstract)
11:30
The relationship between livestock farmers and wildlife managers: A social-ecological analysis of human-wildlife conflict drivers in Sheya shUushona Conservancy (abstract)
13:00-14:00Lunch Break
14:00-14:30 Session 11: Plenary session
Discussant:
Location: AK1
14:00
Appreciating principles of biodiversity values, landscape ecology, intermediate disturbance and sustainable livelihood to achieve harmony in wildlife conservation and tourism (abstract)