“…Una peculiar interacción entre clima y geología es la razon de que el extenso delta del Okavango, un santuario de vida prácticamente inalterado, se encuentre afincado en el corazón de Kalahari africiano, uno de los desiertos mas grandes del mundo. …”

“…Los lobos pintados del Okavango…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A critical analysis of community-based natural resource management in the Chobe Enclave, Botswana7 Community-based conservation and protected areas: Commons perspectives for promoting biodiversity and social justice in southern Africa; 8 Community-based natural resource management: Micro-governance and face-to-face participatory democracy; 9 Fisheries co-management in the Okavango Delta's panhandle: The Okavango Fisheries Management Committee case study; 10 Shifting gear: A new governance framework for small-scale fisheries in South Africa. 11 Legal pluralism and the governance of freshwater resources in southern Africa: Can customary governance be embedded within the statutory frameworks for integrated water resources management?…”

“…On Easter morning, a baby elephant is mysteriously abandoned by her herd in the wilds of Botswana’s Okavango Delta. Saved from certain death by a bizarre chain of events, she forces herself into a very unusual, captive elephant herd…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…A critical analysis of community-based natural resource management in the Chobe Enclave, Botswana7 Community-based conservation and protected areas: Commons perspectives for promoting biodiversity and social justice in southern Africa; 8 Community-based natural resource management: Micro-governance and face-to-face participatory democracy; 9 Fisheries co-management in the Okavango Delta's panhandle: The Okavango Fisheries Management Committee case study; 10 Shifting gear: A new governance framework for small-scale fisheries in South Africa…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Transboundary Cooperation for effective management of the Okavango Delta World Heritage site - the case of the Cubango-Okavango River Basin (Gertrude Matswiri) -- Chapter 5. …”

“…Seyfarth's fascinating response to Darwin's challenge.Cheney and Seyfarth set up camp in Botswana's Okavango Delta, where they could intimately observe baboons and their social world. …”
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“…In the clear waters of the Okavango Delta, he had one fleeting encounter with a giant crocodile that disappeared into a huge underwater cave and it became his obsession to explore the mystery of the dragon’s lair. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The governance framework for harvesting and trade of devil’s claw (Harpagophytum spp.) in the Zambezi Region, Namibia / Jessica-Jane Lavelle -- Marginalisation and Exclusion in Honeybush Commercialisation in South Africa / Sthembile Ndwandwe -- From Forest to National Resource: Forest conservation and state power in Baringo, Kenya / Léa Lacan -- Commodifying East Africa’s Sandalwood: Organised crime and community participation in transnational smuggling of endangered species / Eric Mutisya Kioko and Michael Mugo Kinyanjui -- The Gum Arabic Business: Modernisation of production in northeastern Nigeria / Hauke-Peter Vehrs and Ibrahim Maina Waziri -- PART 4: COMMODIFYING WILDLIFE -- Producing Elephant Commodities for ‘Conservation Hunting’ in Namibian Communal-area Conservancies / Lee Hewitson and Sian Sullivan -- Human–Wildlife Interaction, Rural Conflict, and Wildlife Conservation / Ezequiel Fabiano, Selma Lendelvo, Alfons Mosimane, and Selma Kosmas -- Hunting for Development: Global production networks and the commodification of wildlife in Namibia / Linus Kalvelage -- PART 5: COMMODIFICATION AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS -- Women in Rural Northern Namibia and the Commodification of Indigenous Natural Products / Romie Nghitevelekwa, Selma Lendelvo, and Martin Shapi -- Conservation, Traditional Authorities, and the Commodification of the ‘Wild’: A Namibian perspective / Alfons Mosimane, Kenneth Matengu, and Michael Bollig -- Commodification of Wildlife Resources in the Okavango Delta, Botswana / Joseph E. Mbaiwa -- Justice Dilemmas in Conservation Conflicts in Uganda / Lioba Lenhart -- PART 6: CONCLUSIONS -- Conclusions: Commodifying the ‘Wild’ – Where do we go from here? …”