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Battle for a Colombian Park

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Richard A. Meganck
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In 1972 the Tayrona National Park, on Colombia's Caribbean coast, was suddenly threatened with a multi-million-dollar tourist complex to be built within the park boundaries. But Colombians in thousands objected to the plan–over 50,000 signed a petition to the Government. Eventually, in 1976, a presidential decree permanently excluded the proposed tourist development from Tayrona, a victory for conservation that the author believes could have resounding effects in Latin America.

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Research Article
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Oryx , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , November 1978, pp. 352 - 358
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1978

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