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Nigeria's Star Game Reserve

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Chris Geerling
Chris Geerling
Affiliation:
Chris Geerling, Nature Conservation Department, Agricultural University, Wageningen, Netherlands, formerly FAO Forestry Officer (Range Ecology) at the Ecole pour la Formation de Specialistes de la Faune, Garoua, Cameroun.
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One of the few conservation success stories in West Africa is Yankari Game Reserve in Nigeria, where, thanks to effective management, animal populations have increased to a level at which environmental factors (not human ones) have started to control numbers. Yankari offers the rare spectacle of an effective and efficiently managed reserve with an abundance of animals, which attracts increasing interest from Nigerians.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , April 1980 , pp. 285 - 286
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1980

References

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