University of Aarhus ECOTOURISM AS A WAY TO PROTECT ...
University of Aarhus ECOTOURISM AS A WAY TO PROTECT ...
University of Aarhus ECOTOURISM AS A WAY TO PROTECT ...
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Ecotourism as a sustainable way to protect nature<br />
(a)<br />
(b)<br />
Figure 6: Map <strong>of</strong> Africa (a) and South Africa (b)<br />
(a)www.amergeorg.org/history.htm (b)www.park-sa.co.za/trames.aspmainurf=park/national_parks.html<br />
The Kruger National Park’ history started when it was declared a game<br />
reserve in the last part <strong>of</strong> 1890’s by a group <strong>of</strong> English gentlemen, who after<br />
killing a great number <strong>of</strong> animals and exporting a big quantity <strong>of</strong> ivory just for<br />
pleasure and luxury, decided to protect the area to preserve its wildlife. This was<br />
done by removing the native African population from its lands to marginal lands<br />
in the south <strong>of</strong> the reserve - and it would not be the last time they did that.<br />
On the 28 th <strong>of</strong> October 1902 a new game legislation was promulgated, its<br />
most important novelty was that “…like its nineteenth-century predecessors,<br />
generally remained based on class and race distinctions. However in terms <strong>of</strong><br />
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