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The Protected Landscape Approach: Linking Nature, Culture and Community
Maasai women, Kenya. In Eastern and Southern Africa pastoralist
communities have been presiding for generations over landscapes
now recognised as important for biodiversity. Their land uses and
growing management regimes have helped to preserve important
habitat for wildlife; however, this relationship is coming under
increasing pressure. Moses M. Okello
Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest and the world’s largest free-standing
mountain. The diverse and spectacular landscapes of the
Tsavo-Amboseli Ecosystem in Kenya are important for tourism
and people’s livelihoods, as well as biodiversity conservation.
Edmund Barrow
Plate 2