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These studies investigate the role of protected areas in supporting local socio economic development in selected regions of each country.

These lessons papers are the result of assessment and debate carried out through background papers and national round table meetings involving all key sectors and levels of government.

The report analyses the relationships between the national protected area system and socio-economic development addressing important sectors one by one.

The report analyses the relationships between the national protected area system and socio-economic development addressing important sectors one by one.

Customary laws, established by communal practice and usage for generations and passed down through oral tradition, are familiar, effective and continue to be practiced to a greater or lesser extent throughout the Northern Areas. And yet few of them have been documented so far.

This comprehensive publication presents a history of the evolution of CITES. It begins with the basics and guides the reader through its complex structure. The provisions of the Convention are clearly highlighted in the book, and the numerous resolutions and decisions are explained.

African elephants are confronted with habitat loss and degradation and increasing levels of human-elephant conflict. Management authorities in sub-Saharan Africa are increasingly turning to translocation as a means to meet such challenges.