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Original Articles

Challenges Of Elephant Conservation: Insights From Oral Histories Of Colonialism And Landscape In Tsavo, Kenya

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Pages 523-544 | Received 05 Mar 2018, Accepted 05 Mar 2018, Published online: 01 Nov 2019

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