Integrating Top-Down with Bottom-Up Conservation Policy in Africa |
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| Authors: | R W ABRAMS ENO D ANWANA† ALISON ORMSBY‡ DELALI B K DOVIE§ ADEMOLA AJAGBE AMBER ABRAMS†† |
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| Institution: | Long Island University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Brookville, NY 11548, U.S.A., email;Natural Resources Institute, The University of Greenwich, Chatham, Kent ME4 4TB, United Kingdom;Eckerd College, Environmental Studies, St. Petersburg, FL 33711, U.S.A.;University of Ghana, IDRC Developmental Universities Project, Legon, Ghana;Nigerian Conservation Foundation, Km 19 Lagos-Epe Expressway, Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria;Anthropology Department, University of Cape Town, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa |
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| Abstract: | Abstract: Developed nations intervened in conservation policy across Africa during the 20th century to address needs to protect species and biodiversity that were based on their own perceptions and priorities. In the 21st century, conservationists in Africa have revised these perceptions and begun the process of identifying conservation priorities from an African perspective and in consideration of Africans' priorities. Although foreign conservation interveners struggled to identify mechanisms to which local people would respond, African conservationists are now demonstrating how to integrate the continent's unique socioeconomic circumstances into efforts to protect biodiversity. In Africa effective conservation policy must include the generation of wealth, reduction of disease and hunger, and support of traditional land-use practices. |
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| Keywords: | Africa conservation priorities foreign intervention conservation policy poverty |
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