Overview
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Lessons learned from six major conservation and research projects, across ten African countries
- Presents new models of regional collaboration and citizen-science based projects
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science (BRIEFSENVIRONMENTAL)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Strategic Opportunism in Action: Models of Success
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Conclusions: Lessons Learned on the Ground
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Back Matter
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About this book
The case studies vary widely in their geography and goals. The single-handed commitment to re-discover the last surviving populations of Giant Sable in the miombo woodlands of central Angola, through the capture, translocation and establishment of robust breeding herds of this magnificent antelope, contrasts with the massively funded, three-decade programme with over one hundred participants that reversed the annual loss to predation by feral cats of 455 000 seabirds from a sub-Antarctic island. Similarly, the foresight of Zimbabwean and Namibian ecologists to place rural communities at the centre of conservation programmes by giving value to wildlife populations and benefits to local people, transformed a land degradation problem to a socio-ecological solution. Across ten countries, building capacity in botanical collection, documentation and herbarium management expanded into a global project to place the knowledge base of Africa’s flora onto an electronic data system accessible to researchers and conservation planners in even the most remote corners of the continent. None of these projects enjoyed immediate results. Each required leadership skills that combined vision, a generosity of spirit, fortuitous timing and the exploitation of unexpected opportunities.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Brian John Huntley is a South African ecologist with wide experience in the planning and development of national parks, botanical gardens and multi-disciplinary research programmes in southern African countries. He has led major multi-national cooperative research and conservation programmes to success. Following retirement as director of the South African National Biodiversity Institute, has served as advisor to international agencies within the UN system.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Strategic Opportunism: What Works in Africa
Book Subtitle: Twelve Fundamentals for Conservation Success
Authors: Brian John Huntley
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24880-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-24882-5Published: 01 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-24880-1Published: 28 February 2023
Series ISSN: 2191-5547
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5555
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 142
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environment, general, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Ecology, Biodiversity, Ecosystems