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
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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
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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
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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) PRESENTER: Immanuel K Aushona |
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) PRESENTER: Martha Etuna Nashini |
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
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Discussant:
Location: AK2
10:40 | Revitalizing zimbabwe community based wildlife management through sustainable tourism (abstract) PRESENTER: Livingstone Mhonda |
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
Chair:
Location: AK1
14:00 | Wildlife and tourism management as a social ecological complex adaptive system |
14:30-15:30 Session 6A: Parallel session
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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) PRESENTER: Justina Tuulikefo Nangolo |
15:00 | Enhancing natural resources management through lifelong learning programmes. a case of sikunga conservancy, zambezi region (abstract) PRESENTER: Mutenda Mwaka Betty |
14:30-15:30 Session 6B: Parallel session
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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) PRESENTER: Ellen Natasha Nako |
15:30-15:40Coffee Break
Tuesday, October 22nd
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08:00-08:30 Session 8: Plenary session
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08:00 | Harnessing a sustainable Blue Economy in Namibia: a case for Fisheries and Aquaculture. (abstract) |
08:30-09:50 Session 9: Presentations
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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) PRESENTER: Margaret Ndatoolewe Kanyeme |
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
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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
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Discussant:
Location: AK2
10:00 | Goat Farming and Smallholder Livelihoods in Namibia: A Case Study of Musese Constituency, Kavango West Region (abstract) PRESENTER: Felix Kudumo Sinime |
10:15 | Analysis of indigenous chicken rearing system in the rural household of Ohangwena region, Namibia (abstract) PRESENTER: Selma Joolokeni Shikongo |
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) PRESENTER: Albertina Shikongo |
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
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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) |