Responses of different community user groups to biodiversity conservation of protected areas in lowland fynbos : the case of the Wolfgat Nature Reserve

• Main Author: Manuel, Theodore Llewellyn
• Other Authors: Hoffman, Timm
• Format: Doctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Cape Town 2014
• Subjects: Botany
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6129

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-269). === In South Africa the highly threatened status of imperiled lowland fynbos protected areas (PAs) have made conservation managers realize that getting local communities and user groups to beneficially use protected areas involving them in protected area management in a manner that links with local socio-economic priorities is an alternative to the apartheid style exclusionary apporach to conservation, and the only way of securing the future conservation of such areas. The largest nature reserve on the Cape Flats called Wolfgat Nature Reserve (WNR) is used as a case study to examine potential for using this approach.