War and Tropical Forests

Conservation in Areas of Armed Conflict

Steven Price

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9781000156812
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Biology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Explore the conservation implications of recent armed conflicts in the tropical forest regions of Asia, Africa, and Latin America! From the lowland rainforests of the Colombian Amazon to the rugged habitat of Rwanda's mountain gorillas, civil, ethnic, and international wars have had severe impacts on tropical forests and the communities they sustain. The reemergence of war and the persistence of its impacts have led many conservationists to reassess their efforts and adapt their strategies to a new set of responsibilities and urgent challenges. War and Tropical Forests: Conservation in Areas of Armed Conflict explores these challenges and the lessons learned by conservationists working in conflict zones around the world. It combines case studies and comparative analyses by leading experts in ecological research, environmental policy, and conservation field programs to provide insight into the environmental dimensions of recent social, political, and humanitarian crises. War and Tropical Forests reviews lessons learned from conflict zones around the world and explores:

• the potential of conservation to reduce the frequency, duration, and impact of war
• preparation of conservation programs and local communities for crises
• strategies for maintaining conservation capacity during times of conflict
• the underlying political and economic factors that fuel war
• legal mechanisms for addressing wartime damage to tropical forests
• building partnerships amidst civil strife and political upheaval

This essential book also examines:

• the Indonesian military's role in illegal logging and deforestation
• violent conflict and gorilla poaching in the Democratic Republic of Congo
• armed movements and forest conservation in Nicaragua's largest protected area
• and much more!

War and Tropical Forests also addresses the role of militaries in the inequitable control and illicit use of forest resources, the environmental impact of refugees, the growing social and environmental costs of efforts to eradicate drug crops, and the impact of conflict on protected area management in the habitat of Africa's endangered great apes. War and Tropical Forests is an essential resource for conservation practitioners and policymakers, as well as anyone involved with human rights, conflict resolution, rural development, international law, or foreign relations.

Index

1. Acronym(s), list of, 201-204
2. ADB. See Asian Development Bank (ADB)
3. Additional Protocol II to the Geneva Conventions, 177
4. AFDL. See Alliance des Forces Democratiques pour la Liberation du Congo (AFDL)
5. African Wildlife Foundation, 77
6. Agence France-Presse, 155, 156
7. Agent Orange, 188
8. Agrawal, A., xix
9. Agro-Forestry Cooperative, 39
10. Akagera National Park (ANP), 80, 103, 173
11. Aleman, A., President, 37, 38, 41
12. Alley, P., xix, 205
13. Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Liberation du Congo (AFDL), 96, 124
14. Álvarez, M.D., xvii, 49, 205
15. American Neptune Mining Company, 30
16. Andrés Castro United Forces (FUAC), 21, 24, 37-41
17. Ankor Wat, 15
18. ANP. See Akagera National Park (ANP)
19. Anthropology Department of Yale University, xix
20. Apkindo, 146
21. Area-based protection, 180-184
22. Armed conflict, non-governmental organizations working in, role of, 104-105
23. Armed crisis, building partnerships in face of, 93-114. See also Partnership(s), building of, in face of political and armed crisis
24. Arusha Acords, 103
25. Ashton, M., xix
26. Asia Pulse/Antara, 146
27. Asian Development Bank (ADB), 14
28. Austin, J.E., xix, 167, 205
29. Australian, 156
30. Autonomy, regional, and forest reform, 160-161

1. Banyamulenge tutsi, 124
2. Barber, C.V., 137
3. Barquero, J.I., 32
4. Basel Convention, 193
5. Basic Forestry Law, 143
6. Belum Forest Reserve, 12
7. Berlyn, G.P., xix
8. Bermudez, E., 34
9. Biodiversity, War, and Tropical Forests, 2...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• About the Editor
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Biodiversity, War, and Tropical Forests
• Contras and Comandantes: Armed Movements and Forest Conservation in Nicaragua’s Bosawas Biosphere Reserve
• Forests in the Time of Violence: Conservation Implications of the Colombian War
• Lessons Learned from On-the-Ground Conservation in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Building Partnerships in the Face of Political and Armed Crisis
• Bushmeat Poaching and the Conservation Crisis in Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• The Chainsaw and the Gun: The Role of the Military in Deforesting Indonesia
• Legal Mechanisms for Addressing Wartime Damage to Tropical Forests
• List of Acronyms
• Appendix
• Index