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11 - Rhino Management Challenges: Spatial and Social Ecology for Habitat and Population Management

from Part III - Where Science and Conservation Management Meet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2017

Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt
Affiliation:
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Sally Archibald
Affiliation:
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Norman Owen-Smith
Affiliation:
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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Conserving Africa's Mega-Diversity in the Anthropocene
The Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park Story
, pp. 265 - 285
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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