LEADER 04658nam 22007095 450 001 9910669809003321 005 20251009082210.0 010 $a3-031-24880-5 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-24880-1 035 $a(CKB)5670000000616902 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7206900 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7206900 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-24880-1 035 $a(PPN)26820604X 035 $a(OCoLC)1373352941 035 $a(ODN)ODN0010073786 035 $a(EXLCZ)995670000000616902 100 $a20230228d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aStrategic Opportunism: What Works in Africa $eTwelve Fundamentals for Conservation Success /$fby Brian John Huntley 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Springer,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 142 pages) $cillustrations (some color) 225 1 $aSpringerBriefs in Environmental Science,$x2191-5555 311 0 $a3-031-24879-1 327 $aPart l. Background -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Success is Possible -- Chapter 2. Strategic Opportunism: A Pragmatic Approach to Conservation in Africa -- Part ll. Strategic Opportunism in Action: Six Stories of Success -- Chapter 3. Angolan Giant Sable: Rediscovery, Rescue and Recovery -- Chapter 4. Marion Island: Birds, Cats, Mice and Men -- Chapter 5. Gorongosa National Park: Wilderness, War and Wildlife Recovery -- Chapter 6. Overcoming the Taxonomic Impediment: SABONET and the African Plants Initiative -- Chapter 7. Building Biodiversity Knowledge: Mobilising Citizen Science -- Chapter 8. Bridging the Gap: Community Conservancies in Namibia and Zimbabwe -- Part lll: Conclusion -- Chapter 9. Twelve Fundamentals for Conservation Success. 330 $aThis open access book. provides a synthesis of six projects, across ten countries, each of which have been sustained for two or more decades, and which illustrate how success can be achieved regardless of systems of governance, of a nation?s wealth, or of culture. Detailed narratives are presented on the key personalities that have conceived, conducted and concluded long-term projects: personal stories of vision, failure, frustration and persistence ultimately leading to success. The case studies vary widely in their geography and goals. The single-handed commitment to re-discover the last surviving populations of Giant Sable in the miombo woodlands of central Angola, through the capture, translocation and establishment of robust breeding herds of this magnificent antelope, contrasts with the massively funded, three-decade programme with over one hundred participants that reversed the annual loss to predation by feral cats of 455 000 seabirds from a sub-Antarctic island. Similarly, the foresight of Zimbabwean and Namibian ecologists to place rural communities at the centre of conservation programmes by giving value to wildlife populations and benefits to local people, transformed a land degradation problem to a socio-ecological solution. Across ten countries, building capacity in botanical collection, documentation and herbarium management expanded into a global project to place the knowledge base of Africa?s flora onto an electronic data system accessible to researchers and conservation planners in even the most remote corners of the continent. None of these projects enjoyed immediate results. Each required leadership skills that combined vision, a generosity of spirit, fortuitous timing and the exploitation of unexpected opportunities. 410 0$aSpringerBriefs in Environmental Science,$x2191-5555 606 $aEcology 606 $aConservation biology 606 $aEcology 606 $aBiodiversity 606 $aBiotic communities 606 $aEnvironmental Sciences 606 $aConservation Biology 606 $aEcology 606 $aBiodiversity 606 $aEcosystems 615 0$aEcology. 615 0$aConservation biology. 615 0$aEcology. 615 0$aBiodiversity. 615 0$aBiotic communities. 615 14$aEnvironmental Sciences. 615 24$aConservation Biology. 615 24$aEcology. 615 24$aBiodiversity. 615 24$aEcosystems. 676 $a333.7 686 $aNAT011000$aSCI020000$aSCI026000$2bisacsh 700 $aHuntley$b B. J$g(Brian J.),$f1944-$01461285 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910669809003321 996 $aStrategic Opportunism: What Works in Africa$94450515 997 $aUNINA