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   Harnessing community opportunities to achieve large-scale possum control in rural New Zealand

   Conference Papers & Reports

   December, 2006

   New Zealand

   landowners
2. Library Resource

   

   Managing an Endangered Asian Bovid in an Australian National Park: The Role and Limitations of Ecological-Economic Models in Decision-Making

   Journal Articles & Books

   December, 2006

   Australia

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   landowners

   Indigenous Peoples

   Should north Australia's extensive populations of feral animals be eradicated for conservation, or exploited as a rare opportunity for Indigenous enterprise in remote regions? We examine options for a herd of banteng, a cattle species endangered in its native Asian range but abundant in Garig Gunak Barlu National Park, an Aboriginal land managed jointly by traditional owners and a conservation agency in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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   Improving tenure security for the poor in Africa

   Journal Articles & Books

   December, 2006

   Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Australia, Ghana, Malawi, Niger, Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Africa, Lesotho, Uganda, Somalia, Uruguay, Tanzania, Senegal, Sudan, Cameroon, Norway, Kenya, Africa

   property rights

   land registration

   land rights

   land access

   rural development

   private ownership

   land tenure

   landowners

   land ownership

   Most of the world’s poor work in the “informal economy” – outside of recognized and enforceable rules. Thus, even though most have assets of some kind, they have no way to document their possessions because they lack formal access to legally recognized tools such as deeds, contracts and permits.