Game Ranger (386 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. In bushveld and desert: A game ranger's life This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.…

paperback. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. …

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. …

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Goodbye Game Ranger: A new land ethic for African wildlife conservation. Book.

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Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Heart of a Game Ranger: Stories from a wildlife This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Goodbye Game Ranger is a provocative and hopeful call to rethink African wildlife conservation. Drawing on more than 25 years of experience across the continent, Michael K. Musgrave argues that conservation cannot secure Africa's wildlife by holding on to imported ideas of wilderness, exclusion and dependence on foreign charity. It must become more African in its ethics, more honest about its history, more responsive to ecological complexity, and more capable of creating prosperity for the people who live with wildlife.The book challenges the "game ranger" mindset: not the many committed professionals who work in the field, but a powerful conservation orthodoxy shaped by colonial history, Western moral preferences and a belief that healthy landscapes are landscapes without people. Musgrave examines how protected areas were often created through dispossession, how rural land use has been misrepresented, and how global fascination with charismatic animals can obscure the rights, knowledge and daily risks of local communities.Rather than replacing conservation with development, Goodbye Game Ranger argues for a stronger form of conservation: one in which people, livestock, wildlife, culture and ecosystems are understood as interconnected. It revisits the "tragedy of the commons", drawing on the work of Elinor Ostrom to show that communities can govern shared resources when institutions, rights, incentives and accountability are well designed. It questions simplistic assumptions about education, population, customary law, policy and trade-offs, and calls for systems thinking in the management of Africa's dynamic, unpredictable ecosystems.Musgrave makes the economic case for change. African biodiversity is not merely a charitable cause or a tourist attraction; it is productive natural capital with potential to generate durable livelihoods, enterprise, investment and national prosperity. The book explores carbon and biodiversity finance, impact investing, community conservation, ecotourism, sustainable harvesting, bonds, public-private partnerships and debt-for-nature swaps. It insists, however, that finance must be governed ethically and must strengthen local rights, capability and accountability rather than create new forms of external control.At the heart of the book is the importance of community governance and traditional ecological knowledge. Conservation must move beyond treating people either as a threat to nature or as passive beneficiaries. Rural communities are rights-holders, managers and knowledge-holders whose institutions, experience and aspirations are essential to effective landscape stewardship. The book also examines human-wildlife conflict, the limits of simplistic "people versus animals" debates, and the need for a genuine community licence for conservation.Goodbye Game Ranger embraces technology, from remote sensing, sensors and wildlife tracking to drones, data platforms and artificial intelligence, but treats it as an enabler rather than a substitute for human judgement. Technology should strengthen fieldcraft, community science, transparency and adaptive management.Finally, the book sets out an African land ethic: a social-ecological ethic grounded in Africa's histories, values and living landscapes. It offers a vision of a continent in which conservation is not imposed from outside, but led by skilled African institutions and communities; where ecological integrity and human dignity reinforce one another; and where wildlife is conserved because it is valued, governed and capable of sustaining abundance. Goodbye Game Ranger is a challenge to the old conservation order, and an invitation to build a more just, confident and successful future for Africa's people and wild places. A bold call to remake African wild Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

paperback. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A few small stains.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 105 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.27 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition; no remainder marks. It does have some cover shelfwear. Inside pages are clean. ; 6 X 0.72 X 9 inches; 344 pages.

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Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Browning of edges. Dust jacket is chipped, torn, and rubbed.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. David Bristow offers spellbinding stories of some amazing, little-known characters from South Africa, past and very past. There is Krotoa, the Khoi maiden who is found working in the Van Riebeeck household as both servant and interpreter, who became the concubine of Danish surgeon Pieter Van Meerhoff and later his wife. Mevrou Maria Mouton, who preferred to socialize with the slaves than her husband on their farm in the Swartland, and conspired to murder him. And the giant Trekboer Coenraad de Buys-rebel, renegade, a man with a price on his head who married many women and fathered a small nation. The explorer Lichtenstein called him a modern-day Hercules. These characters and more are brought to life in The Game Ranger, the Knife, the Lion and the Sheep.…

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. TRACKS IN THE DUST - A Game Ranger's Journey. Book.