Conservation volunteer tourism in the Hartbeespoort region, South Africa : an exploratory study
- Van Tonder, Su-Marie, Hoogendoorn, Gijsbert, Block, Elizabeth
- Authors: Van Tonder, Su-Marie , Hoogendoorn, Gijsbert , Block, Elizabeth
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: Conservation , Volunteer tourism , Hartbeespoort
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://ujcontent.uj.ac.za8080/10210/363065 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/224856 , uj:22699 , Citation: Van Tonder, S., Hoogendoorn, G. & Block, E. 2017. Conservation volunteer tourism in the Hartbeespoort region, South Africa : an exploratory study. African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 6(1):1-13. , ISSN: 2223-814X
- Description: Abstract: It is critical to promote the development and vigorous growth of responsible and on all levels sustainable tourism destinations. In general terms, travelling is increasingly a privilege and if tourism is handled responsibly, all the participants can benefit and enjoy immense privileges. Volunteer tourism remains under-researched topic in Africa and specifically South Africa. This research provides novel evidence from an exploratory study on conservation volunteer tourism in the Hartbeespoort region in the North-West Province of South Africa, to address the current paucity in research on this topic. This paper presents the main motivations of tourists for volunteering in conservation programmes, and the range of different volunteering projects available. Key points that emerged include the value that the tourists placed on their interaction with animals and developing personal awareness around environmental and conservation issues. Overall, conservation volunteer tourism has positive impacts, however a number of potential ethical problems are highlighted. The paper concludes highlighting a number of future research prospects.
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- Authors: Van Tonder, Su-Marie , Hoogendoorn, Gijsbert , Block, Elizabeth
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: Conservation , Volunteer tourism , Hartbeespoort
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://ujcontent.uj.ac.za8080/10210/363065 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/224856 , uj:22699 , Citation: Van Tonder, S., Hoogendoorn, G. & Block, E. 2017. Conservation volunteer tourism in the Hartbeespoort region, South Africa : an exploratory study. African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 6(1):1-13. , ISSN: 2223-814X
- Description: Abstract: It is critical to promote the development and vigorous growth of responsible and on all levels sustainable tourism destinations. In general terms, travelling is increasingly a privilege and if tourism is handled responsibly, all the participants can benefit and enjoy immense privileges. Volunteer tourism remains under-researched topic in Africa and specifically South Africa. This research provides novel evidence from an exploratory study on conservation volunteer tourism in the Hartbeespoort region in the North-West Province of South Africa, to address the current paucity in research on this topic. This paper presents the main motivations of tourists for volunteering in conservation programmes, and the range of different volunteering projects available. Key points that emerged include the value that the tourists placed on their interaction with animals and developing personal awareness around environmental and conservation issues. Overall, conservation volunteer tourism has positive impacts, however a number of potential ethical problems are highlighted. The paper concludes highlighting a number of future research prospects.
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Decolonization, environmentalism and nationalism in Australia and South Africa
- Authors: Bennett, Brett M.
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: Decolonization , Environmentalism , Conservation
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/256956 , uj:26984 , Citation: Bennett, B.M. 2017. Decolonization, environmentalism and nationalism in Australia and South Africa.
- Description: Abstract: Decolonization influenced the rise of environmental activism and thought in Australia and South Africa in ways that have been overlooked by national histories of environmentalism and imperial histories of decolonization. Australia and South Africa’s political and cultural movement away from Britain and the Commonwealth during the 1960s is one important factor explaining why people in both countries created more, and more important, public indigenous botanic gardens than anywhere else in the world during that decade. Effective decolonization from Britain also influenced the rise of indigenous gardening and the growing popularity of native gardens at a critical period in gardening history. Most facets of modern gardening—using plants indigenous to the site or region, planting drought tolerant species, and seeing gardens as sites to help conserve regional and national floras— can be dated to those two decades. The interpretation advanced here adds to historical research tracing how the former Commonwealth dominion settler colonies experienced effective decolonization in the same era. This article expands the focus of research on decolonization to include environmentalism. The interpretation of the article also augments national environmental histories that have hitherto downplayed the influence of decolonization on the rise of environmentalism. Putting decolonization into the history of the rise of environmental thought and action sheds light as to why people in contemporary Australia and South Africa are so passionate about protecting indigenous nature and worried about threats posed by non-native invasive species.
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- Authors: Bennett, Brett M.
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: Decolonization , Environmentalism , Conservation
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/256956 , uj:26984 , Citation: Bennett, B.M. 2017. Decolonization, environmentalism and nationalism in Australia and South Africa.
- Description: Abstract: Decolonization influenced the rise of environmental activism and thought in Australia and South Africa in ways that have been overlooked by national histories of environmentalism and imperial histories of decolonization. Australia and South Africa’s political and cultural movement away from Britain and the Commonwealth during the 1960s is one important factor explaining why people in both countries created more, and more important, public indigenous botanic gardens than anywhere else in the world during that decade. Effective decolonization from Britain also influenced the rise of indigenous gardening and the growing popularity of native gardens at a critical period in gardening history. Most facets of modern gardening—using plants indigenous to the site or region, planting drought tolerant species, and seeing gardens as sites to help conserve regional and national floras— can be dated to those two decades. The interpretation advanced here adds to historical research tracing how the former Commonwealth dominion settler colonies experienced effective decolonization in the same era. This article expands the focus of research on decolonization to include environmentalism. The interpretation of the article also augments national environmental histories that have hitherto downplayed the influence of decolonization on the rise of environmentalism. Putting decolonization into the history of the rise of environmental thought and action sheds light as to why people in contemporary Australia and South Africa are so passionate about protecting indigenous nature and worried about threats posed by non-native invasive species.
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Effect of marine protected areas and macroeconomic environment on meat consumption in SEAFO countries
- Simo-Kengne, Beatrice D., Dikgang, Johane, Ofstad, Sunita Prugsamatz
- Authors: Simo-Kengne, Beatrice D. , Dikgang, Johane , Ofstad, Sunita Prugsamatz
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: Consumption , Conservation , Environment
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/284427 , uj:30718 , Citation: Simo-Kengne, B.D., Dikgang, J. & Ofstad, S.P. 2018. Effect of marine protected areas and macroeconomic environment on meat consumption in SEAFO countries.
- Description: Abstract: Livestock production and consumption of meat are significant contributors to today’s most serious environmental problems and global warming. This paper investigates the role of marine reserves in shaping meat consumption pattern across member countries of the South East Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (SEAFO) for the period 1990 to 2009. Using a panel data including economic factors, life expectancy and environmental awareness, we find that meat consumption is positively associated with the presence of marine protected areas (MPAs). This suggests a possible increase in substitution of meat eating to seafood by SEAFO member countries due to aquatic resources conservation. Marine resource conservation policy is not a complementary strategy for sustainable livestock policy. This points out to some necessary policy improvements and actions to ameliorate the relationship between MPA and the negative environmental impacts of livestock. Furthermore, economic factors appear to have played a significant role in explaining meat consumption growth. Apart from price inflation, the most relevant factors that positively influence meat consumption appear to be GDP, exports and imports of agricultural products, and urbanisation. Beyond economic factors, negative health information associated with meat consumption appear to lead to a reduction in the consumed quantities of meat. There is evidence that meat-eating behaviour is not only related to macroeconomic development but also to environmental awareness.
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- Authors: Simo-Kengne, Beatrice D. , Dikgang, Johane , Ofstad, Sunita Prugsamatz
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: Consumption , Conservation , Environment
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/284427 , uj:30718 , Citation: Simo-Kengne, B.D., Dikgang, J. & Ofstad, S.P. 2018. Effect of marine protected areas and macroeconomic environment on meat consumption in SEAFO countries.
- Description: Abstract: Livestock production and consumption of meat are significant contributors to today’s most serious environmental problems and global warming. This paper investigates the role of marine reserves in shaping meat consumption pattern across member countries of the South East Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (SEAFO) for the period 1990 to 2009. Using a panel data including economic factors, life expectancy and environmental awareness, we find that meat consumption is positively associated with the presence of marine protected areas (MPAs). This suggests a possible increase in substitution of meat eating to seafood by SEAFO member countries due to aquatic resources conservation. Marine resource conservation policy is not a complementary strategy for sustainable livestock policy. This points out to some necessary policy improvements and actions to ameliorate the relationship between MPA and the negative environmental impacts of livestock. Furthermore, economic factors appear to have played a significant role in explaining meat consumption growth. Apart from price inflation, the most relevant factors that positively influence meat consumption appear to be GDP, exports and imports of agricultural products, and urbanisation. Beyond economic factors, negative health information associated with meat consumption appear to lead to a reduction in the consumed quantities of meat. There is evidence that meat-eating behaviour is not only related to macroeconomic development but also to environmental awareness.
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The Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier : A project in Limbo?
- Sinthumule, Ndidzulafhi Innocent
- Authors: Sinthumule, Ndidzulafhi Innocent
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: Conservation , Mapungubwe , Tranfrontier conservation
- Language: English
- Type: Conference proceedings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/286588 , uj:31012 , Citation: Sinthumule, N.I. 2018. The Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier : A project in Limbo? Proceedings of the Biennial Conference of the Society of South African Geographers: 1 – 5 October 2018, University of the Free State. , ISBN: 9780868868523
- Description: Abstract: Over the past three decades, interests in conservation have rapidly rallied around the concept of transfrontier conservation area (TFCA). The establishment of trans-border conservation have received massive support from donors, governments and environmental NGOs. Coordinators of TFCAs were appointed, inter-governmental agreements were signed, and workshops and conferences were convened in support of transnational forms of management. This model to conservation has come to be seen as more effective than national level management because of the transboundary nature of environmental problems. However, the Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Areas (GMTFCA) appear to have lost momentum (stalled) since the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding. This begs the question, what are the politics and problems associated with the establishment of GMTFCAs on the Botswana-South Africa-Zimbabwe borderlands. This paper tries to answer this question with the hope that the challenges, competing agendas and points of conflict surrounding the creation of GMTFCAs might emerge.
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- Authors: Sinthumule, Ndidzulafhi Innocent
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: Conservation , Mapungubwe , Tranfrontier conservation
- Language: English
- Type: Conference proceedings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/286588 , uj:31012 , Citation: Sinthumule, N.I. 2018. The Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier : A project in Limbo? Proceedings of the Biennial Conference of the Society of South African Geographers: 1 – 5 October 2018, University of the Free State. , ISBN: 9780868868523
- Description: Abstract: Over the past three decades, interests in conservation have rapidly rallied around the concept of transfrontier conservation area (TFCA). The establishment of trans-border conservation have received massive support from donors, governments and environmental NGOs. Coordinators of TFCAs were appointed, inter-governmental agreements were signed, and workshops and conferences were convened in support of transnational forms of management. This model to conservation has come to be seen as more effective than national level management because of the transboundary nature of environmental problems. However, the Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Areas (GMTFCA) appear to have lost momentum (stalled) since the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding. This begs the question, what are the politics and problems associated with the establishment of GMTFCAs on the Botswana-South Africa-Zimbabwe borderlands. This paper tries to answer this question with the hope that the challenges, competing agendas and points of conflict surrounding the creation of GMTFCAs might emerge.
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Understanding wildlife crime from Eco-Existential and African Perspectives: A psycho-philosophical investigation
- Authors: Mayer, Claude-Hélène
- Date: 2021
- Subjects: Wildlife crime , Conservation , Existential psychology
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/489595 , uj:44646 , Citation: Mayer, C.-H. UnderstandingWildlife Crime from Eco-Existential and African Perspectives: A Psycho-Philosophical Investigation. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 11675. https:// doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111675 , DOI: https:// doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111675
- Description: Abstract: Wildlife crime has huge consequences regarding global environmental changes to animals, plants and the entire ecosystem. Combatting wildlife crime effectively requires a deep understanding of human–wildlife interactions and an analysis of the influencing factors. Conservation and green criminology are important in reducing wildlife crime, protecting wildlife and the ecosystem and informing policy-makers about best practices and strategies. However, the past years have shown that wildlife crime is not easy to combat and it is argued in this article that there are underlying existential “givens” and culture-specific aspects that need to be investigated to understand why wildlife crime is still on the rise. This theoretical article explores (eco-)existential perspectives, Greening’s four givens and selected African philosophical concepts, aiming to understand the complexities behind the prevalence of wildlife crime within global and African contexts.
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- Authors: Mayer, Claude-Hélène
- Date: 2021
- Subjects: Wildlife crime , Conservation , Existential psychology
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/489595 , uj:44646 , Citation: Mayer, C.-H. UnderstandingWildlife Crime from Eco-Existential and African Perspectives: A Psycho-Philosophical Investigation. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 11675. https:// doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111675 , DOI: https:// doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111675
- Description: Abstract: Wildlife crime has huge consequences regarding global environmental changes to animals, plants and the entire ecosystem. Combatting wildlife crime effectively requires a deep understanding of human–wildlife interactions and an analysis of the influencing factors. Conservation and green criminology are important in reducing wildlife crime, protecting wildlife and the ecosystem and informing policy-makers about best practices and strategies. However, the past years have shown that wildlife crime is not easy to combat and it is argued in this article that there are underlying existential “givens” and culture-specific aspects that need to be investigated to understand why wildlife crime is still on the rise. This theoretical article explores (eco-)existential perspectives, Greening’s four givens and selected African philosophical concepts, aiming to understand the complexities behind the prevalence of wildlife crime within global and African contexts.
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