Overview: One of the major challenges of sustainable development is theinterdisciplinary nature of the issues involved. To this end, a teamof conservation biologists, hunters, tourist operators, ranchers,wildlife and land managers, ecologists, veterinarians and economistswas convened to discuss whether wildlife outside protected areas inAfrica can be conserved in the face of agricultural expansion andhuman population growth. They reached the unequivocal - ifcontroversial - conclusion that wildlife can be an economicasset, especially in the African savannas, if this wildlife can besustainably u
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