Emilie Köhler

OUT NOW: Humanimalia 16.1 (2025), special issue on “Elephant (Research) Routes”, guest edited by Violette Pouillard and Marianna Szczygielska. 🐘🐘🐘

With essays on Babar, Avi, Ziggy, Arikomban, Kalloor Komban, Soorya, and Hansken, any many more!

Read it for free here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...

Elephant corridors in the Kavango-Zambezi transfrontier conservation area (KAZA TFCA): environmental infrastructures for a greener anthropocene in Namibia’s Mudumu landscape - Review of Regional Resea... Wildlife corridors are seen as essential environmental infrastructure guaranteeing species connectivity and biological diversity in contemporary conservation landscapes. Harking back to recent social ...

Together with Michael Bollig I wrote an open access article on Namibia‘s Sobbe wildlife corridor as an environmental infrastructure: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Corridors, not culls, offer solution to Southern Africa’s growing elephant population Since being collared in Zambia two years ago, a young bull elephant known to researchers as Z16 has walked nearly 12,000 kilometers, or 7,500 miles — three times the distance between New York and Los ...

My research on elephant conservation in the KAZA TFCA was featured by @mongabay.com in an article that argues for corridors, not culls, as a long term solution for Southern Africa‘s growing elephant population 🐘

news.mongabay.com/2025/12/corr...

First article from my PhD is out!

‘Provincialising Foot-and-Mouth Disease: The Construction of the African Buffalo as Disease Reservoir in Botswana, 1961–1976’, with Andreas Weber and @estherturnhout.bsky.social

Herzlichen Glückwunsch!