Securing wilderness landscapes in South Africa : Nick Steele, private wildlife conservancies and saving rhinos

TitleSecuring wilderness landscapes in South Africa : Nick Steele, private wildlife conservancies and saving rhinos
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2015
AuthorsH. Wels
Series titleAfrika-Studiecentrum series
Issue34
Pagination - 164
Date Published2015///
PublisherBrill
Place PublishedLeiden [etc.]
Publication Languageeng
ISSN Number9789004290754
KeywordsSouth Africa, wildlife protection
Abstract

Private wildlife conservation is booming business in South Africa! Nick Steele stood at the cradle of this development in the politically turbulent 1970s and 1980s, by stimulating farmers in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) to pool resources in order to restore wilderness landscapes, but at the same time improve their security situation in cooperative conservancy structures. His involvement in Operation Rhino in the 1960s and subsequent networks to save the rhino from extinction, brought him into controversial military (oriented) networks around the Western world. The author's unique access to his private diaries paints a personal picture of this controversial conservationist.

IR handle/ Full text URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/1887/60903
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