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Turning African game poachers into conservationists

November 11, 2019 • by John Couretas

Turning African game poachers into conservationists

In a new video from the Property and Environment Research Center in Bozeman, Montana, African hunting guide Mark Haldane explains how “habitat conservation depends on making wildlife economically competitive with other land uses.” Continue Reading...

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