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Does prohibiting local access to nature hurt African wildlife conservation?

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Mongabay (India)

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2016-08-12

The notion that international wildlife crime predominates Africa’s conservation crisis is largely due to conventional media’s acute focus on elephant tusk and rhino horn poaching. But despite such heavy-handed publicity and the global community’s well-intentioned outcry, Africa’s illegal hunting problem pales in comparison to habitat loss, which is decimating far more animal species at a much faster rate.

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https://news.mongabay.com/2016/08/does-prohibiting-local-access-to-nature-hurt-african-wildlife-conservation/