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The Kruger Experience: Ecology and Management of Savanna Heterogeneity. Edited by Johan T. du Toit, Kevin H. Rogers and Harry C. Biggs, published by Island Press

The Kruger Experience does a superb job of capturing the changing concepts of conservation and management. After seventy years of regulating Kruger National Park as a closed, steady-state ecosystem, researchers and managers have arrived at a radically different paradigm. The conservation of biological diversity depends not on stabilizing wildlife numbers and ecological processes, but on keeping in play the shifting mosaic of biotic and abiotic factors that create heterogeneity.
David Western, Chairman of the African Conservation Centre, Kenya

An outstanding, timely, and perceptive synthesis of 100 years of management, research, and often-unintended experiment, in one of the world s great national parks. But this book is also much more -- it is an exciting volume, born in the crucible of transition to a multicultural open society that propels conservationists, resource managers and scientists alike into the 21st century. New approaches to understanding and managing biological diversityand complex, linked social-ecological systems are lucidly developed. Scientists, resource managers, and conservationists, wherever they may be, will enjoy and be challenged by this extraordinary book.
David Cumming, Tropical Resource Ecology Programme, University of Zimbabwe

As the distillation of a remarkable record of a century of science and management experience, The Kruger Experience is a landmark volume... of immense value to all concerned anywhere with conservation, conservation science, and sustainable development.
Thomas Lovejoy, President of The Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment