Not Seeing the Cattle for the Elephants: The Implications of Discursive Linkages between Boko Haram and Wildlife Poaching in Waza National Park, Cameroon

Not Seeing the Cattle for the Elephants: The Implications of Discursive Linkages between Boko Haram and Wildlife Poaching in Waza National Park, Cameroon

The decline of wildlife in Central and West African border parks has been directly linked to Islamic terrorism in the region in media and government discourse. Using Waza National Park in the Far North Region of Cameroon as a case study, we show that wildlife declines in the park long preceded the a...

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Main Authors: Alice Kelly Pennaz, Mouadjamou Ahmadou, Mark Moritz, Paul Scholte
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2018-01-01
Series:Conservation & Society
Subjects:
Wildlife conservation
Waza National Park
Cameroon
Boko Haram
political ecology
war on terror
poaching
border parks
ivory
pastoralists
Online Access:http://www.conservationandsociety.org/article.asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2018;volume=16;issue=2;spage=125;epage=135;aulast=Pennaz

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