Vol. 4 · No. 2 · 2000

organised by Dawn Chatty Deputy Director, Refugee Studies Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford

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This conference brought together anthropologists, wildlife conservation specialists and ecologists to examine the impact which wildlife conservation and other environmental protection projects have on the lives and livelihoods of the often mobile, difficult-to-reach, and marginal peoples who inhabit the same territory and ecological niches. The conference also examined critically the popular concept of bringing indigenous populations into the management and running of conservation efforts. There are lessons to be learned from recent efforts in community managed conservation and the conference welcomed discussion and analysis which mediated the points of view of anthropologists, ecologists and zoologists.