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Private wildlife conservation is booming business in South Africa! Nick Steele stood at the cradle of this development in the politically turbulent 1970s and 1980s, by stimulating farmers in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) to pool resources in order to restore wilderness landscapes, but at the same time improve their security situation in cooperative conservancy structures. His involvement in Operation Rhino in the 1960s and subsequent networks to save the rhino from extinction, brought him into controversial military (oriented) networks around the Western world. The author's unique access to his private diaries paints a personal picture of this controversial conservationist.
Contents
List of Figures and Maps
List of Acronyms
Maps
Introduction:
Focusing on the subjectivities and setting the interpretive scene
An iconic species in nature conservation: the rhinoceros in Africa
The personal archive of Nick Steele
The aesthetics of landscape in nature conservation
Methodological considerations
Structure of the book
Chapter 1:
Picturing landscape... and what comes with it
Game rangers' memoirs and landscape
Landscape construction
'Camps' in the landscape
A metaphor of aestheticized landscapes: the Claude Mirror
Conservation landscapes in South Africa
Chapter 2:
Rhino's political role in wildlife conservation
The idea of rhino
Nick Steele and saving the rhino
Networking with the military to save the rhino
Nick Steele and the ANC-IFP struggle
Rhino conservation as 'bush war'
Rhino as Steele's 'totem'?
Chapter 3:
Longing for Zululand landscapes: Nick Steele transferred to Natal
Steele transferred from Zululand Reserves to Natal Midlands
Nick Steele on issues of race in South Africa
Nick Steele's disillusionment with Natal's landscapes
Nick Steele's friendship with Mongosuthu Buthelezi
Chapter 4:
Private wildlife conservancies: providing security
The Farm Patrol Plan: getting things started
Game guards: the backbone of conservancies
The success of the conservancy concept: going across national borders
Recent trends in private wildlife conservation: game farming
Chapter 5:
Summary and Conclusions
Acknowledgements and Brief Methodological Reflections
References
Index
