Lessons for Protecting African Wildlife Parks

August 12, 2022

Africa’s national wildlife parks are threatened by climate change, large infrastructure developments such as oil drilling, and the spread of urban populations. Conservationists are struggling to keep up, the AP reports. In IssuesDavid Western offers guidance drawn from years of work in African parks and wildlife protection. One key, he writes, is that “past command-and-control conservation has placed itself at odds with the very communities it ultimately depends on for success.” Instead, the focus should shift “from central regulation and enforcement and toward greater emphasis on local collaboration based on fairness, opportunity, and responsibility.”

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