Securing wilderness landscapes in South Africa: Nick Steele, private wildlife conservancies and saving rhinos

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Title:	Securing wilderness landscapes in South Africa: Nick Steele, private wildlife conservancies and saving rhinos
Author:	Wels, Harry
Year:	2015
Issue:	34
Pages:	163
Language:	English
Series:	Afrika-Studiecentrum series (ISSN 1570-9310)
City of publisher:	Leiden
Publisher:	Brill
ISBN:	9789004290754; 9789004290969
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	wildlife protection nature conservation private sector landscape
About person:	Nicholas Arthur Steele (1933-1997)
External link:	https://hdl.handle.net/1887/60903
Abstract:	Private wildlife conservation is booming business in South Africa. Nick Steele (1933-1997) stood at the cradle of this development in the politically turbulent 1970s and 1980s, by stimulating farmers in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) to pool resources in order to restore wilderness landscapes, but at the same time improve their security situation in cooperative conservancy structures. His involvement in Operation Rhino in the 1960s and subsequent networks to save the rhino from extinction, brought him into controversial military (oriented) networks around the Western world. On the basis of Steele's private diaries the author paints a picture of this controversial conservationist. [Book abstract]