The Realities of Community Based Natural Resource Management and Biodiversity Conservation in Sub-Saharan Africa

This is an historic overview of conservation in Sub-Saharan Africa from pre-colonial times through the present. It demonstrates that Africans practiced conservation that was ignored by the colonial powers. The colonial market economy combined with the human and livestock population explosion of the...

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Main Authors: Brian Kevin Reilly, Paul Andre DeGeorges
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2009-09-01
Series:Sustainability
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/1/3/734/