Conserving wildlife amongst the cotton fields. A third of a century of experience at the Nazinga Game Ranch, Burkina Faso

Bouché P., Lejeune P., Bailly V., Muyle M., Zinque M.H., Mercier A., Cornélis D., Lungren C., Portier B., Marchal A., Renault F., Yaméogo D., Kafando P., Sawadogo P., Vermeulen C.
2016

Established in the early 1970 as a participatory wildlife production area, the Nazinga Game Ranch turned into an island of conservation surrounded by cultivation. We asked ourselves how long-term ungulate trends are affected in a context of continuous human pressure. To find out, we compiled and analysed the data of yearly line-transect counts of mammals carried out since 1985. Results showed ...

Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières; Culture des plantes