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Wildlife Conservation by Sustainable Use (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000)
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Wildlife Conservation by Sustainable Use (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000)
Series: Conservation Biology, 12
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One of the major challenges of sustainable development is the
interdisciplinary nature of the issues involved. To this end, a
team of conservation biologists, hunters, tourist operators,
ranchers, wildlife and land managers, ecologists, veterinarians and
economists was convened to discuss whether wildlife outside
protected areas in Africa can be conserved in the face of
agricultural expansion and human population growth. They reached
the unequivocal - if controversial - conclusion that wildlife can
be an economic asset, especially in the African savannas, if this
wildlife can be sustainably utilized through safari hunting and
tourism. Using the African savannas as an example, Wildlife
Conservation by Sustainable Use shows that in many instances
sustainable wildlife utilization comprises an even better form of
land use than livestock keeping. Even when population pressure is
high, as in agricultural areas or in humid zones, and wild animal
species can pose a serious cost to agriculture, these costs are
mainly caused by small species with a low potential for safari
hunting. Although ranching has a very low rate of return and is
hardly ever profitable, the biggest obstacle to the model of
sustainable wildlife use outlined in Wildlife Conservation by
Sustainable Use is from unfair competition from the agricultural
sector, such as subsidies and lack of taxation, resulting in market
distortion for wildlife utilization. This book thus gives valuable
evidence for a different way of working, providing arguments for
removing such distortions and thereby facilitating financially
sound land use and making it a rationally sound choice to conserve
wildlife outside protected areas. The expert team of authors, most
of whom came together at a workshop to thrash out the ideas that
were then developed into the various chapters, has written a superb
account of recent research on this complex subject, resulting in a
book that is a major contribution to our understanding of
sustainable use of land. The important conclusion is that wildlife
conservation can be possible for landholders and local communities
if they have a financial interest in protecting wildlife on their
lands.
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