Hunting in the Yucatan Peninsula: Knowledge and Worldviews
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Socio-ecological Studies in Natural Protected Areas Linking Community Development and Conservation in Mexico
Socio-ecological Studies in Natural Protected Areas
Alfredo Ortega-Rubio Editor
Socio-ecological Studies in Natural Protected Areas Linking Community Development and Conservation in Mexico
Editor Alfredo Ortega-Rubio Red Nacional Áreas Naturales Protegidas RENANP-CONACYT Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste CIBNOR-CONACYT La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico
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Foreword
In the early 1970s a silent revolution was taking place in UNESCO’s central offices at Place de Fontenoy in Paris. An Italian ecologist, Francesco di Castri, had been hired by UNESCO to implement the goals and further the results of the International Biological Program (IBP), which he was a part of in the 1960s. Di Castri, who spent several years as a researcher in Chile and knew South America extremely well, teamed up with a French ecologist, Michel Batisse, and started discussing the accomplishments and shortcomings of the IBP. As a French scientist, Batisse had worked extensively, doing research in Francophone Africa, and had, like di Castri, acquired a serious concern about the social conditions of the underprivileged populations in poor, undeveloped countries. “How are we going to establish nature conservation programs,” they wondered, “among people that have been exploited for centuries, have seen their natural resources being stolen from them under colonial regimes, and have very little means to survive and prosp
