How Africa Can Drive Its Conservation By Growing its Wildlife Economy allafrica: Africa
A new revelation from Queen’s University Belfast unveils a harrowing truth: close to half of the more than 70,000 species examined are teetering on the brink of extinction. This is an alarming wake-up call.
Despite the fact that the area of land under protection has doubled in the last 50 years,research suggests that Africa’s Protected Conservation Areas are now failing to protect species in over 80% of areas. In the last two decades alone, Africa’s lion and elephant populations have shrunk by half, exacerbating a longstanding trend: between 1970 and 2016, Africa’s natural capital stock fell by 65%, driven largely by land-use change.
But there is much more in the African economy that depends on the natural world. The fisheries and aquaculture sectors directly contribute $24 billion to the African economy, while two-thirds of Africans use non-timber forest products for food, medicine, energy and income. Economically important NTFPs include honey and shea .It is clear that maintaining the status quo and solely relying on the safeguarding of designated conservation areas is no longer a credible long-term strategy.
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