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&"The Only Good Crocodile Is A Dead One&”: Contradictions in Conservation Policies and Agricultural Activities in the Gambia, 1938 -1965

Saidykhan, Sana
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1541161564441735

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2018, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, History (Arts and Sciences).
In 1938, the colonial office in Bathurst appointed a forestry management committee to design and implement an aggressive reforestation plan. The committee planted imported tree species and conserved [native] wild bamboo and rhun palm trees. It also created forest and wildlife parks in the colony of Gambia. During this time, the administration&’s Department of Agriculture initiated several projects: rice and other food grain cultivation for food sufficiency; peanut cultivation to develop a viable cash crop; and exploitation of forest timber products and huntable exotic game. The outcome of this contradiction was stringent conservation policies often with severe consequences for the African residents of the colony. This thesis offers new sources that demonstrate how agricultural activities and resource exploitation undermined conservation, and the colonial conservation policies neglected the local ways of forest and wildlife conservation in the Gambia. It hopes to contribute to the growing environmental scholarship of West Africa most of which neglect conservation. This is a study of forest and wildlife conservation in the Gambia, examining the colonial conservation policies, and how agricultural policies and activities, particularly the introduction of animal drawn-plow, mechanized rice farming, and exportation of wild animal species undermined conservation.
Assan Sarr, Dr (Advisor)
111 p.
History
Agriculture; Conservation; Indigenous Resource Management; Forestry; Wildlife; Colonialism

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  • Saidykhan, S. (2018). &"The Only Good Crocodile Is A Dead One&”: Contradictions in Conservation Policies and Agricultural Activities in the Gambia, 1938 -1965 [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1541161564441735

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Saidykhan, Sana. &"The Only Good Crocodile Is A Dead One&”: Contradictions in Conservation Policies and Agricultural Activities in the Gambia, 1938 -1965. 2018. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1541161564441735.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Saidykhan, Sana. "&"The Only Good Crocodile Is A Dead One&”: Contradictions in Conservation Policies and Agricultural Activities in the Gambia, 1938 -1965." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1541161564441735

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