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  A park for the people? Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park: community consultation in Coutada 16, Mozambique

  Refugee Research Programme at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), 2002

  This paper reports on research on local knowledge of the establishment of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park in Mozambique.
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  Transboundary areas in Southern Africa: meeting the needs of conservation or development?

  Digital Library of the Commons, 2002

  Southern Africa’s natural resource management areas are becoming ‘transboundary’. Terminology is becoming both complex and confusing yet conservation-dominant.
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  Invasive alien species: a toolkit of best prevention and management practice

  CAB International, 2001

  This online toolkit was developed using comments and experience of participants in a number of conferences. The toolkit is intended to be global in its applicability, although there is a small island focus, recognizing that the impact of invasive alien species on biodiversity is greater in small island systems.
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  Buying time: a user’s manual for building resistance and resilience to climate change in natural systems

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2003

  This manual is intended for natural resource managers who wish to plan for the potential and current impacts of climate change. It looks at impacts and mitigation measures (other than reducing emissions) by biome. The manual outlines practical ideas of how to begin increasing the resiliency of ecosystems and plan our protected areas in response to the threat of climate change.
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  Armed conflict and biodiversity in Sub-Saharan Africa: the case of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

  Biodiversity Support Programme, 2001

  In African countries, where poor rural populations are the majority and where the wealthy minority not only depends on resource extraction but also holds the political power, nature conservation is not a domestic priority. The larger the country the more patchy and incomplete the conservation effort is likely to be. Into this situation, add war and subtract government.
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  Overview of armed conflict and biodiversity in Sub-Saharan Africa: impacts, mechanisms, and responses

  Biodiversity Support Programme, 2001

  This study contributes to an overview of the impacts of armed conflict on the environment that has been prepared by the Biodiversity Support Program’s Armed Conflict and the Environment project.The author first describes the various impacts and the mechanisms behind them, and then outlines a variety of responses to reduce or prevent these impacts.
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  Forest conservation and the rural poor: a call to broaden the conservation agenda

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2001

  This paper begins by asking why forest conservationists should consider poverty reduction.
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  Curriculum development at the African Regional Wildlife Colleges, with special reference to the Ecole de Faune, Cameroon

  Eldis Gender Resource Guide, 2003

  This paper reviews developments in African wildlife management and the resulting training requirements and organization of the colleges.
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  Maximizing conservation in Protected Areas: guidelines for gender consideration

  Gender and Environment /Genero y ambiente, 2003

  Women’s and men’s relationships with the environment in protected areas (PAs) and their buffer zones, in the context of their respective gender roles, are crucial for the very survival of these natural habitats.
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  Predicted recurrences of mass coral mortality in the Indian Ocean

  Nature [journal], 2003

  This paper reports on the findings of a new model of future coral mortality. The model combines historical and predictive data on sea warming for more than 30 sites in the Indian Ocean.The model predicts that locations that undergo the highest rises in sea surface temperatures will not necessarily suffer the worst coral destruction.

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