Impersonal markets and personal communities? Wildlife, conservation, and development in Botswana.

From: Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy | Date: September 1, 2004| Author: Hoon, Parakh N. | Copyright information

1. INTRODUCTION

During the 1980s and 1990s conservation policies and agencies in Africa came under severe criticism. In several countries, the evidence of increased poaching in the 1970s and 1980s pointed to the inability of wildlife departments to manage their habitats and wildlife populations. The government departments, critics argued, relied on top-down bureaucratic approaches that excluded local communities. (2) It seemed that a conservation practice based on exclus...

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