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Focusing on corruption: a reply to Ferraro and Katzner

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2005

Matthew J. Walpole  and
Robert J. Smith
Matthew J. Walpole
Affiliation:
Fauna & Flora International, Great Eastern House, Tenison Road, Cambridge, CB1 2TT, UK. E-mail [email protected]
Robert J. Smith
Affiliation:
Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NS, UK.
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Corruption is a complex phenomenon with various confounding effects and, in their separate replies, both Ferraro (2005) and Katzner (2005) note that in some cases corruption may have short- and long-term benefits for conservation by limiting extractive and destructive development activities. We agree, and we also acknowledge that better governance does not necessarily lead to better conservation; a cursory look at Conservation International's biodiversity hotspots (Conservation Interational, 2005) shows that these threatened regions occur in countries with both high and low governance levels.

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Oryx , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , July 2005 , pp. 263 - 264
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