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Title:African responses to environmental protection
Author:Van der Linde, MorneISNI
Year:2002
Periodical:The Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa
Volume:35
Issue:1
Pages:99-113
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:African agreements
environmental policy
Abstract:African regional efforts at environmental protection and conservation were preceded by two international agreements on the environment. The first, the Convention on the Preservation of Wild Animals, Birds and Fish in Africa (1900), was signed by colonial powers present in Africa. It aimed at regulating the then uncontrolled massacre of various species of wild animal.The second convention was the Convention Relative to the Preservation of Fauna and Flora in Their Natural State (1933). After the withdrawal of colonial powers in the late 1950s and 1960s and the establishment of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the first African environmental convention was drafted in 1968. This paper examines African responses to environmental protection. It first briefly presents environmental concerns in Africa (natural disasters, the waste trade, and 'emerging' or modern disasters). It then considers regional attempts to address environmental concerns. The paper finally examines Africa's legal normative framework for the regulation, implementation and enforcement of environmental protection, conservation and management: The African Convention on Nature and Natural Resources (1968), The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (1986) and the Convention on the Ban of Import into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Waste within Africa (1991). Notes, ref.
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