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Global Environments and Rural Communities: Enhancing Community Conservation Initiatives in East Africa

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When Hans Meyer stood on the summit of East Africa’s legendary Mount Kilimanjaro in 1889 he most likely didn’t consider the possibility that his Chagga guide, Yohani Kinyala Lauwo, would still be alive to participate in the one-hundredth anniversary of this initial ascent. Yet amazingly Lauwo attended the celebration seven years before his death in 1996 at age 125.

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Durrant, J.O., Jackson, M.W. (2004). Global Environments and Rural Communities: Enhancing Community Conservation Initiatives in East Africa. In: Janelle, D.G., Warf, B., Hansen, K. (eds) WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2352-1_60

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