Wildlife conservation in the southern Sudan
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Balancing livestock production and wildlife conservation in and around southern Africa's transfrontier conservation areas.
Biodiversity conservation, of which the transfrontier conservation area movement is an integral part, and more effective livestock production/trade are pivotal to future rural development in southern Africa. For that reason, it is imperative to effectively ameliorate the obstacles that have impeded progress towards the coexistence of these two sectors for more than half a century. Transboundary...
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عنوان ژورنال: Oryx
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0030-6053,1365-3008
DOI: 10.1017/s0030605300025126