Areas to Preserve in Sierra Leone
- 1 November 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Oryx
- Vol. 12 (5) , 596-598
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0030605300012667
Abstract
Sierra Leone has no national parks or equivalent reserves. Dr Wilkinson is a geologist who worked first in the north and north-east, the Koinadugu District, where the forest destruction and hunting pressure on the larger mammals combined to endorse the gloomy picture painted by Dr Lowes in Oryx, September 1970, page 309. Later, working further to the east, he found the situation rather better and was able to tot up a list of twenty-nine mammals seen. He suggests, now that diamonds, Sierra Leone's staple earner of foreign exchange, are rapidly giving out, that the tourist industry is bound to burgeon and game parks will be needed. He writes:Keywords
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