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The Use of Light Aircraft in East African Wild Life Research and Game Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

D. R. P. Zaphiro  and
Lee M. Talbot
D. R. P. Zaphiro
Affiliation:
Game Warden, Kajiado District, Kenya Game Department
Lee M. Talbot
Affiliation:
Ecologist, Wild Life Research Project, sponsored jointly by United States National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Government of Kenya, and New York Zoological Society
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Most of the wild life management and research problems in East Africa to-day are concerned with widespread populations of varied species of animals distributed over vast areas of usually roadless terrain. In such conditions it is difficult, uneconomic and time consuming to operate entirely from the ground, and a light aircraft, correctly used, can be of great value.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , September 1961 , pp. 190 - 199
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1961

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