Book contents
- Shaping the African Savannah
- African Studies Series
- Shaping the African Savannah
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Part 1 Introduction
- Part 2 The Evolution of Pre-Colonial Environmental Infrastructure
- Part 3 Encapsulation and Pastoralisation, 1900s to 1940s
- Part 4 The State, Intervention, and Local Appropriations between the 1950s and 1980s
- 7 A Hydrological Revolution in an African Savannah
- 8 Conservation and Poaching in the 1970s and 1980s
- Part 5 Dynamics of Social-Ecological Relations between the 1990s and the Present
- Part 6 Theorising Time, Space, and Change in a Pastoral System
- Bibliography
- Index
- African Studies Series
8 - Conservation and Poaching in the 1970s and 1980s
from Part 4 - The State, Intervention, and Local Appropriations between the 1950s and 1980s
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 June 2020
Book contents
- Shaping the African Savannah
- African Studies Series
- Shaping the African Savannah
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Part 1 Introduction
- Part 2 The Evolution of Pre-Colonial Environmental Infrastructure
- Part 3 Encapsulation and Pastoralisation, 1900s to 1940s
- Part 4 The State, Intervention, and Local Appropriations between the 1950s and 1980s
- 7 A Hydrological Revolution in an African Savannah
- 8 Conservation and Poaching in the 1970s and 1980s
- Part 5 Dynamics of Social-Ecological Relations between the 1990s and the Present
- Part 6 Theorising Time, Space, and Change in a Pastoral System
- Bibliography
- Index
- African Studies Series
Summary
This period of enforced pastoral intensification was accompanied by a strong anti-conservationist stand. To provide space and resources for a rapidly growing bovine population wildlife was eliminated. Poaching became rampant in the 1970s. South African military staff, administrators, and local people gained from this total onslaught on wildlife. This provoked international protest and the formation of a conservationist agenda for the region: an agenda which would then be formative from the 1990s onwards.
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- Shaping the African SavannahFrom Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia, pp. 196 - 236Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020