Natural Missouri: Working With the Land
Napier Shelton offers a tour of notable natural sites in Missouri through the eyes of the people who work with them.
Napier Shelton offers a tour of notable natural sites in Missouri through the eyes of the people who work with them.
Wild Earth 8, no. 2 features articles on the connections between philanthropy and nature preservation and on the history of land protection in the US, as well as profiles of conservation heroes Howard Zahniser and Mardy Murie.
This film examines a radical policy implemented by Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa: to leave Yasuni National Park’s oil in the ground and let the industrialized countries make a contribution to the preservation of the planet’s “green lungs.”
Using the example of the Stirling Range National Park, Andrea Gaynor shows that the dualistic practice of reservation does not necessarily ensure the preservation or conservation of landscapes and ecosystems.
Sudeep Jana Thing, Roy Jones, and Christina Birdsall Jones investigate the recent participatory turn in nature conservation policy and practices through an ethnographic investigation of the experiences of the marginalised Sonaha (indigenous people of the Bardia region) in relation to the conservation discourses, policies, and practices of the Bardia National Park authorities in the Nepalese lowland.
From Waterton-Glacier International Park to the European Alps, and Lake Titicaca in Peru and Bolivia, the essays in Parks, Peace, and Partnership provide illustrative examples of the challenges and new solutions that are emerging around the world.
The study analyzes the political equity in fisherfolk organizations of Beach Management Units (BMUs) in Lake Victoria (Kenya). It uses this as a case study to investigate the issue of decentralization of resource management through co-management, and its relationship with political power.
The authors study the relationship between poverty and poaching using a sample of 173 self-admitted poachers dwelling in villages near Ruaha National Park in Tanzania.
The authors base this critique of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (NAMWC) on its narrow stakeholder focus and limited ideological representation.
Through a quantitative questionnaire survey conducted in villages around the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in northern Congo, the authors assess local attitudes towards conservation and elephant conservation in particular.