In the current edition of Nature’s Chambers, the magazine of the ICCF Group, Peace Parks’ Jamie McCallum and Lilian Spijkerman examine why conservation investment in Africa matters to US security and foreign-policy interests. They explore how environmental crime intersects with wider criminal networks, and why long-term investment in conservation can form part of a broader response.
Drawing on experience from southern Africa, they make the case for seeing conservation not as an isolated environmental concern, but as an investment in nationally led institutions, local capacity, economic opportunity and the partnerships needed to manage shared natural resources across borders.
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