Sustaining Natural and Human Capital: Villagers and Scientists

Biodiversity is being irretrievably lost around the world at an alarming rate. Attempts to identify “win-win” scenarios in which “communities are able to generate social benefit flows from wildlife” (1), referred to as community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), have received attention in several wildlife-rich African nations. The focus has been on the large mammals most threatened with extirpation outside protected areas (2).