Securing Wilderness Landscapes in South Africa
Subtitle: Nick Steele, Private Wildlife Conservancies and Saving Rhinos
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9789004290969
Subjects: Game protection; Rhinoceroses; Wildlife conservation, africa; Natural resources, africa
Description: 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.