Saving The Zululand Wilderness

Author : Donal P. McCracken
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131274503

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Saving the Zululand Wilderness by Donal P. McCracken Pdf

Chartering the dire cultural and environmental impact of poachers and the export of Africa's incredibly diverse wildlife, this compelling account describes how Zululand's rich natural heritage was rendered nearly extinct due to generations of greed and abuse. Documenting the steady decline of wild game--from the slaughter of 20,000 elephants so that 1,000 tons of ivory could be shipped from Durban Bay between 1820 and the 1880's to the indiscriminate global export of rhino and buck horns; hides from lions, leopards, and other wildcats; and live wild animals--this staggering documentation bears witness to the careless depletion of the last surviving great African kingdom. Meticulously researched with emphasis on celebrating the heroic and eventually successful attempts to enforce environmental-protection policies through establishing strictly regulated game reserves, this incredible saga is a resounding affirmation of how commitment to preservation throughout history can end and then repair the damage done by decades of thoughtless desecration.

Author : Ian Player
Publisher : David Philip Publishers
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070781617

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Zululand Wilderness by Ian Player Pdf

In 1952 two men from entirely different cultures met: one from a white background, the other a Zulu. This book tells of their work in the Mfolozi Game Reserve protecting animals and the environment, and of their growing mutual respect.'

Author : Harry Wels
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004290969

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Securing Wilderness Landscapes in South Africa by Harry Wels Pdf

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.

Author : Ian Player
Publisher : Fulcrum Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Wildlife conservation
ISBN : 1555913636

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Zulu Wilderness by Ian Player Pdf

In this heartfelt memoir, Player touches on many themes including the Ndumu and Mfolozo game reserves where the two worked, Zulu and apartheid history, conservation and wilderness values.

Author : Renzo Perissinotto,Derek D. Stretch,Ricky H. Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781107354999

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Ecology and Conservation of Estuarine Ecosystems by Renzo Perissinotto,Derek D. Stretch,Ricky H. Taylor Pdf

St Lucia is the world's oldest protected estuary and Africa's largest estuarine system. It is also the centerpiece of South Africa's first UNESCO World Heritage Site, the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, and has been a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance since 1986. Knowledge of its biodiversity, geological origins, hydrology, hydrodynamics and the long history of management is unique in the world. However, the impact of global change has culminated in unprecedented challenges for the conservation and management of the St Lucia system, leading to the recent initiation of a project in support of its rehabilitation and long-term sustainability. This timely volume provides a unique source of information on the functioning and management of the estuary for researchers, students and environmental managers. The insights and experiences described build on over 60 years of study and management at the site and will serve as a valuable model for similar estuaries around the world.

Author : Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt,Sally Archibald,Norman Owen-Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107031760

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Conserving Africa's Mega-Diversity in the Anthropocene by Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt,Sally Archibald,Norman Owen-Smith Pdf

This book synthesises key insights from a century of ecological research and monitoring efforts in one of Africa's oldest protected areas.

Author : Knut Nustad
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781849045964

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Creating Africas by Knut Nustad Pdf

In Africa, conflicts between protected areas for fauna and flora and space for their surrounding human populations continue despite years spent trying to find an accommodation between the needs of both parties. Creating Africas investigates the roots of the current conservation boom, demonstrates that it is part of a struggle over various definitions of existing realities, and examines the global effects of this struggle. The book discusses the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in South Africa, the Isimangaliso (St Lucia) Wetland Park. Here, conservation interests are pitted against those of industrial forestry, commercial farming, and local communities struggling to have their lands returned to them. They all seek to define and create their own realities, but do so with very different resources at their disposal. In his expert analysis, Nustad treats these realities not as different representations but rather as multiple, often competing, viewpoints that involve a wide range of actors, both human and non-human. Nustad posits that in order to avoid being accused of neo-colonial land grabbing, the conservation lobby will need to find a new way of imagining nature and protection that includes people.

Author : Werner Zips,Manuela Zips-Mairitsch
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643910905

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Bewildering Borders by Werner Zips,Manuela Zips-Mairitsch Pdf

Transfrontier conservation challenges African borders, the "colonial scars of history". The global tourism industry has discovered the potential of African borderlands for adventure travel. Iconic animals and indigenous cultures are marketed in the same breath, often evoking stereotypical images of "Wild Africa". Can ecotourism and ethno-tourism be commended as viable panaceas for environmental protection and development? The marketing of nature and culture raises important questions on the meaningful inclusion of local communities as tourism entrepreneurs. Living museums and cultural villages are emerging as start-ups of local communities. They commodify ethnicity albeit on their own terms. This volume debates the economy of conservation, providing diverse perspectives on an issue of great contemporary relevance.

Author : Angela Impey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226538013

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Song Walking by Angela Impey Pdf

Song Walking explores the politics of land, its position in memories, and its foundation in changing land-use practices in western Maputaland, a borderland region situated at the juncture of South Africa, Mozambique, and Swaziland. Angela Impey investigates contrasting accounts of this little-known geopolitical triangle, offsetting textual histories with the memories of a group of elderly women whose songs and everyday practices narrativize a century of borderland dynamics. Drawing evidence from women’s walking songs (amaculo manihamba)—once performed while traversing vast distances to the accompaniment of the European mouth-harp (isitweletwele)—she uncovers the manifold impacts of internationally-driven transboundary environmental conservation on land, livelihoods, and local senses of place. This book links ethnomusicological research to larger themes of international development, environmental conservation, gender, and local economic access to resources. By demonstrating that development processes are essentially cultural processes and revealing how music fits within this frame, Song Walking testifies to the affective, spatial, and economic dimensions of place, while contributing to a more inclusive and culturally apposite alignment between land and environmental policies and local needs and practices.

Author : Peter Simonson,Janice Peck,Robert T Craig,John Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136514319

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The Handbook of Communication History by Peter Simonson,Janice Peck,Robert T Craig,John Jackson Pdf

The Handbook of Communication History addresses central ideas, social practices, and media of communication as they have developed across time, cultures, and world geographical regions. It attends to both the varieties of communication in world history and the historical investigation of those forms in communication and media studies. The Handbook editors view communication as encompassing patterns, processes, and performances of social interaction, symbolic production, material exchange, institutional formation, social praxis, and discourse. As such, the history of communication cuts across social, cultural, intellectual, political, technological, institutional, and economic history. The volume examines the history of communication history; the history of ideas of communication; the history of communication media; and the history of the field of communication. Readers will explore the history of the object under consideration (relevant practices, media, and ideas), review its manifestations in different regions and cultures (comparative dimensions), and orient toward current thinking and historical research on the topic (current state of the field). As a whole, the volume gathers disparate strands of communication history into one volume, offering an accessible and panoramic view of the development of communication over time and geographical places, and providing a catalyst to further work in communication history.

Author : Mary N. Harris,Csaba Lévai
Publisher : Plus
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105115322690

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Europe and Its Empires by Mary N. Harris,Csaba Lévai Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004385115

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Nature Conservation in Southern Africa by Anonim Pdf

Nature Conservation in Southern Africa. Morality and Marginality: Towards Sentient Conservation? proposes ways to study linkages between the marginality, subjectivity and agency of both human and animals, promoting a new approach to conservation referred to as ‘sentient conservation’.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Natural resources
ISBN : MINN:31951D02996448S

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Science and Stewardship to Protect and Sustain Wilderness Values by Anonim Pdf

The Seventh World Wilderness Congress met in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in 2001. The symposium on science and stewardship to protect and sustain wilderness values was one of several symposia held in conjunction with the Congress. The papers contained in this proceedings were presented at this symposium and cover seven topics: state-of-knowledge on protected areas issues in South Africa; traditional and ecological values of nature; wilderness systems and approaches to protection; protection of coastal/marine and river/lake wilderness; spiritual benefits, religious beliefs, and new stories; personal and societal values of wilderness; and the role of science, education, and collaborative planning in wilderness protection and restoration.

Author : Alan E. Watson,Janet Sproull
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Nature conservation
ISBN : UOM:39015058806012

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Science and Stewardship to Protect and Sustain Wilderness Values by Alan E. Watson,Janet Sproull Pdf

Author : Jasper Finkeldey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000655650

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Fighting Global Neo-Extractivism by Jasper Finkeldey Pdf

Fighting Global Neo-Extractivism: Fossil-Free Social Movements in South Africa analyzes social struggles over damaging new fossil fuel projects in the Global South with a focus on South Africa, Africa’s biggest fossil fuel emitter. Fossil fuel extraction in South Africa has reached a new accelerated phase in which the fossil fuel frontier is moving beyond historical ‘sacrifice zones’ into non-traditional spaces, such as conservation parks and middle-class neighbourhoods, and provoking fervent opposition from grassroots activists. This book examines campaigns such as Frack Free South Africa and Save our iMfolozi Wilderness, viewing them as struggles against neo-extractivism driven by the state and industry. Through a series of detailed case studies, it highlights the shaping of mobilisation patterns by prior land use practices and the capacity to mobilize different social groups across race and class. Developing the notion of the fossil fuel frontier as the material and political boundary that activists in South Africa and elsewhere in the world render visible, this volume provides a theoretical framework to understanding global mobilization patterns. This timely and impassioned book will appeal to students and researchers interested in a range of subjects, including environmentalism, social movements, political ecology, and development studies.