Conservation in Africa: Peoples, Policies and PracticeDavid Anderson, Richard H. Grove This book provides a new inter-disciplinary look at the practice and policies of conservation in Africa. Bringing together social scientists, anthropologists and historians with biologists for the first time, the book sheds some light on the previously neglected but critically important social aspects of conservation thinking. To date conservation has been very much the domain of the biologist, but the current ecological crisis in Africa and the failure of orthodox conservation policies demand a radical new appraisal of conventional practices. This new approach to conservation, the book argues, cannot deal simply with the survival of species and habitats, for the future of African wildlife is intimately tied to the future of African rural communities. Conservation must form an integral part of future policies for human development. The book emphasises this urgent need for a complementary rather than a competitive approach. It covers a wide range of topics important to this new approach, from wildlife management to soil conservation and from the Cape in the nineteenth century to Ethiopia in the 1980s. It is essential reading for all those concerned about people and conservation in Africa. |
Contents
Early themes in African conservation the Cape in the nineteenth century | 21 |
Chivalry social Darwinism and ritualised killing the hunting ethos in Central Africa up to 1914 | 41 |
Colonialism capitalism and the ecological crisis in Malawi a reassessment | 63 |
Conservation with a human face conflict and reconciliation in African land use planning | 79 |
Wildlife parks and pastoralists | 103 |
Introduction | 105 |
Pastoralism conservation and the overgrazing controversy | 111 |
Pastoralists and wildlife image and reality in Kenya Maasailand | 129 |
Local institutions tenure and resource management in East Africa | 193 |
Conflicting uses for forest resources in the Lower Tana River basin of Kenya | 211 |
Environmental degradation soil conservation and agricultural policies in Sierra Leone 18951984 | 229 |
Managing the forest the conservation history of Lembus Kenya 190463 | 249 |
Consequences for conservation and development | 269 |
Introduction | 271 |
The political reality of conservation in Nigeria | 277 |
Settlement pastoralism and the commons the ideology and practice of irrigation development in northern Kenya | 293 |
Integrating parks and pastoralists some lessons from Amboseli | 149 |
The Mursi and National Park development in the Lower Omo Valley | 169 |
Conservation priorities and rural communities | 187 |
Introduction | 189 |
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Page 4 - The problem is rooted in the nature of the colonial relationship itself, which allowed Europeans to impose their image of Africa upon the reality of the African landscape. Much of the emotional as distinct from the economic investment which Europe made in Africa has manifested itself in a wish to protect the natural environment as a special kind of 'Eden', for the purposes of the European psyche, rather than as a complex and changing environment in which people have actually had to live.
Page 5 - Men are easily inspired by human ideas, but they forget them just as quickly. Only Nature is eternal, unless we senselessly destroy it. In fifty years' time nobody will be interested in the results of the conferences which fill today's headlines.