Political and social movements organized to address environmental threats to health and livelihood. International conservation groups have focused worldwide attention on the threats to Africa’s wildlife and forests. These issues, however, are not necessarily the primary concerns of most environmental movements in Africa itself. Such movements tend to focus instead on threats to local or regional natural resources that are considered crucial to people’s health and livelihood. In some regions, people do consider wildlife a vital natural resource, but elsewhere they are more concerned with protecting land and water.
African environmental movements do not necessarily share the priorities of national governments For example some governments in wildlife rich regions of eastern and southern Africa have displaced farming and pastoral communities to create large wildlife reserves partly to meet the requests of foreign nations that donate aid and partly to encourage wildlife tourism Another kind of problem seen in all parts ...
