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Strategic Opportunism: What Works in Africa - Twelve Fundamentals for Conservation Success (Paperback, 1st ed. 2023)
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Strategic Opportunism: What Works in Africa - Twelve Fundamentals for Conservation Success (Paperback, 1st ed. 2023)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
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This open access book. provides a synthesis of six projects, across
ten countries, each of which have been sustained for two or more
decades, and which illustrate how success can be achieved
regardless of systems of governance, of a nation's wealth, or of
culture. Detailed narratives are presented on the key personalities
that have conceived, conducted and concluded long-term projects:
personal stories of vision, failure, frustration and persistence
ultimately leading to success.The case studies vary widely in their
geography and goals. The single-handed commitment to re-discover
the last surviving populations of Giant Sable in the miombo
woodlands of central Angola, through the capture, translocation and
establishment of robust breeding herds of this magnificent
antelope, contrasts with the massively funded, three-decade
programme with over one hundred participants that reversed the
annual loss to predation by feral cats of 455 000 seabirds from a
sub-Antarctic island. Similarly, the foresight of Zimbabwean and
Namibian ecologists to place rural communities at the centre of
conservation programmes by giving value to wildlife populations and
benefits to local people, transformed a land degradation problem to
a socio-ecological solution. Across ten countries, building
capacity in botanical collection, documentation and herbarium
management expanded into a global project to place the knowledge
base of Africa's flora onto an electronic data system accessible to
researchers and conservation planners in even the most remote
corners of the continent. None of these projects enjoyed immediate
results. Each required leadership skills that combined vision, a
generosity of spirit, fortuitous timing and the exploitation of
unexpected opportunities.
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