Fortress Conservation: The Preservation of the Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania

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Do cattle destroy a wilderness? Does a wilderness need to be devoid ofpeople in order to be "saved"? In this hard-hitting book, Dan Brockingtonargues that the dominant approach to wildlife conservation in Africa has more to dowith Western views of the environment than with what is appropriate for Africanpeople and herds. He focuses on the Tanzanian government's decision to evict peopleand cattle from the Mkomazi Game Reserve in 1988, but he also considers damaging, harmful, and unjust conservation efforts across the continent. Extensive fieldworkand archival investigations enable the author to elucidate the history of theMkomazi reserve, assess competing explanations of the environmental dynamics of thereserve, and show the negative effects of exclusion on local populations and theregional economy.