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“If you want to make money out of wildlife go to South Africa, if you want to enjoy seeing wildlife, go to Kenya”. This statement was made by one of the authors in this book who comes from a country somewhere in between South Africa and Kenya. Why are the financial and economic prospects for wildlife utilization best in a place that appears to many less attractive for the experience of the wild animal splendour of Africa and why are the best areas the least conducive to financial and economic success at the time of writing? In this concluding chapter an attempt is made to explain this paradoxical situation. Land use options in the African savannas are reviewed and the prerequisites for sustainable use of wildlife, which were treated in detail in the various chapters, are examined to assess the consensus among the contributors of this book. Our intention is to assist those people who are dealing with the use of wildlife, those living with wildlife on their land, those who are making a living out of wildlife and those who are, at a distance, determining the fate of people and wildlife by their involvement in policy making at State level or giving financial support, the complex of donor agencies and NGOs.
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Grootenhuis, J.G., Prins, H.H.T. (2000). Wildlife Utilisation: A Justified Option for Sustainable Land Use in African Savannas. In: Prins, H.H.T., Grootenhuis, J.G., Dolan, T.T. (eds) Wildlife Conservation by Sustainable Use. Conservation Biology Series, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4012-6_22
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