Africa
Integrating activities for conservation and development through people's participation and collaboration among different institutional and social actors is being increasingly recognized as the most promising approach to sustainable natural resource management. This document describes and discusses the experience in this area of the Inter-regional Project for Participatory Upland Conservation...
The Mara River catchment is the dry weather refuge for more than one million migrating wildebeest and zebras of the Serengeti ecosystem. The river flow is affected by developments in Kenya, including deforestation and water diversion for irrigation and the proposed Ewaso Ng'iro (South) Hydropower Project. An ecohydrology model was used to predict the likely impact of these developments on the...
The Mountains of High Africa allowed Africans to be Africans long before the struggle for independence. The dynastic kingdoms of the Highlands of Ethiopia prevailed for centuries and it was the only part of Africa that was not really colonized. Not even the scorching sands of the Sahara and its general inhospitality could keep the colonizers out, as did the mountains. More recently, when the...
The purpose of this paper is to explain to all who love the mountains the different bands of vegetation that characterise the mountain as one climbs to the top. There may be those who see the mountains as one mass of plants species mixed in helter skelter fashion. In addition, the author aims to explain the species adaptation to various montane ecosystem zones and explain the values of...
ARA has been tackling forest degradation and environmental degradation in the tropical forests and savanna grassland areas of Cross River State, Nigeria since 1996. The ARA works through its rural based community action project, Development in Nigeria (DIN). Research by DIN in rural communities over the years has repeatedly highlighted a correlation between poverty and forest degradation...
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