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Social change and conservation misrepresentation in Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Clive Spinage
Clive Spinage*
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Wickwood House, Stanford Road, Faringdon, Oxon SN7 8EZ, UK.
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Concomitant with the increasing denouncement of African game legislation as inappropriate law imposed by a former colonial authority, is the attack upon traditional, i.e. total protection, practice of conservation. It is increasingly argued by a school of neo-populist thinkers, that local people should be allowed to exploit protected areas in accordance with their own traditions and beliefs. Examples of alleged injustice or practice are consistently misrepresented with a view to replacing traditional conservation practice with left-wing political dogma, proponents claiming a mandate from the Caracas 1992 IVth World Congress on National Parks and Protected Areas.

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Oryx , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , October 1998, pp. 265 - 276
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1998

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