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Neil D’Cruze, Research Strategic Lead, Canopy, and Visiting Researcher, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), University of Oxford

Communities near South Africa’s Kruger National Park prefer wildlife-friendly ways to earn a living over killing animals

Kruger National Park is a flagship South African conservation area home to lions, elephants, rhinos, and leopards. Tourists from all over the world flock to the park to see wildlife. But people living nearby deal with the daily realities of living close to dangerous animals that might eat their livestock or damage their crops.

For these communities near the park, economic opportunities are limited. The area has high unemployment and poverty levels which fuel illegal hunting.


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