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Human-Wildlife Conflict (HWC) has become a serious threat to the survival of many endangered species in the world. The sighted examples from different countries such as Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zanzibar, Namibia, China and Peru demonstrate the severity of the conflict and suggest that greater in depth...

Assessing and improving capacity for Chongwe District Council (CDC) has become more and more important as the Government through the decentralization policy transfers huge responsibilities in terms of planning, implementation of development plans and management of public services to local...

Every form of water use results in production of wastewater. The wastewater is characterised by a number of substances which are usually added to it during the process of use. These substances must be removed from the water before returning it back to the environment. The pathogenic nature of...

A series of microorganisms were detected from the Manchinchi Sewage Treatment Plant in the different levels of treatment. The samples analysed were :-raw sewage, secondary clarifier sewage and the maturation ponds effluent at the point where it is discharged into the receiving water body, the...

An ecological study was undertaken over a period of one and half years in miombo woodland found in Serenje District, Zambia in order to determine the extent of woodland degradation in the study area as well as determining the avifauna community structure in the study area, and how it responds to...

The work covered in this thesis was carried out between March 1988 and March 1991 in Kenya. The first 8 months of this 3-year study period was spent on compulsory course work and developing a research proposal under the African Regional Postgraduate Programme in Insect Science at the...

The need to determine constituent elements in materials so as to meet various technological demands in many fields is of an extreme importance. This work is an attempt to establish the efficacy of using non-destructive neutron activation methods based on instrumental gamma-ray spectrometry for...

III-V semiconductors and their alloys are by no meanssimple and have some rather subtle properties There fore their increasing commercial exploitation has stimulated phenomenal growth in the research effort devoted to studying their defects and radiation effects. NMR spectroscopy has become...