AS IF ON cue, the first few years of the new millennium have seen the beginnings of a mind-shift in formal conservation circles. For well over a century, we have lived with the assumption that wildlife and biodiversity can best be conserved in designated protected areas managed by government bureaucracies, aided at best by scientists and conservation non-governmental organisations (NGOs). This has now given way to the realisation that there are a variety of other actors who can be equally, if not more, capable of caring and conserving natural ecosystems; in particular, Indigenous peoples and other ...
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