Competing conservation ideologies: Troubled times for reporting on Namibian wildlife
By Liz Rihoy and Malan Lindeque • Op-ed The Daily Maverick 14 April 2019 Two competing ideological narratives have emerged in African wildlife conservation. The one is based on so- called ‘compassionate conservation’, aligned with the mostly Western animal rights movement, the other based on the human rights of the owners of the wildlife, the local people who live with wild animals. In...