The Challenge of Regulating Private Wildlife Ranches for Conservation in South Africa
The Challenge of Regulating Private Wildlife Ranches for Conservation in South Africa
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南非监管私人野生动物牧场的挑战
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2010
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James Evans
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Jenny A. Cousins;J. Sadler;James Evans
我们讨论在南非管理私人土地上的野生动物牧场的新尝试。尽管私人野生动物牧场可以带来积极的保护影响，但由于经济优先考虑，往往会产生一些生态后果。我们提出并分析了旨在协调省级立法和引导野生动物产业向更环保方向发展的新国家法规，并研究了不同社会政治尺度之间产生的紧张关系。数据是通过对法律文件的桌面研究和对主要利益相关者的访谈获得的。新法规通过潜在地解决与野生动物牧场相关的一些具体生态问题，开始解决国际义务和国家保护生物多样性的政策。然而，在实践中，这些规定是利益相关者之间紧张关系的一个重要来源，实施起来将具有挑战性。一个关键问题是激励驱动的牧场主和环保主义者之间的竞争议程。也许在解决边缘的生态问题时，新规定会鼓励一些牧场主将他们的土地从保护友好的土地用途中转移出来。
We address the new attempts at regulating wildlife ranches on private land in South Africa. Although positive conservation impacts can be attributed to private wildlife ranching, there are a number of ecological consequences that often arise as a result of economic priorities. We present and analyze new national regulations aimed at coordinating provincial legislation and guiding the wildlife industry in a more conservationist direction, and examine tensions that have arisen between different sociopolitical scales as a result. Data were obtained through a desk-based study of legal documents and interviews with key stakeholders. The new regulations begin to address international obligations and national policy on biodiversity conservation by potentially combating a number of specific ecological problems associated with wildlife ranching. However, in practice, the regulations are a significant source of tension among stakeholders and will be challenging to implement. A key issue is competing agendas between incentivedriven ranchers and conservationist aims. It may be that in addressing the ecological problems at the margin, the new regulations will encourage some ranchers to convert their land away from conservation friendly land use.