Culture: The missing element in conservation and development: Abstracts of the 8th National Zoo Symposium held at the National Zoological Park, Washington, DC, 1988

Includes the following papers:

• Culture and the commons
• Community conservation education project for the golden lion tamarin, Brazil- building support for habitat conservation
• Sustainable conservation: Bolivian debt trade a catalyst
• Indigenous peoples and their knowledge: missing links and lost knowledge in the conservation of Brazil's tropical forests
• Cultural basis for the conservation of elephants and other wildlife in Sri Lanka
• Self-management and state-management, forms of knowing and conserving: a case study of sub-arctic Cree Indians, the Quebec government, and wildlife
• National recreation areas in Appalachia: citizen participation in planning and management
• Co-management with whom? The politics of conservation and development in Latin America
• Planning networks of protected habitat for conservation and development in Latin America
• Planning networks of protected habitat for conservation of species of importance to indigenous societies: three islands with primary rainforest and pressures for both logging and habitat protection.

This document contains the abstracts/summaries of the 8th National Zoo Symposium. Topics such as: common property, politics, community involvement, debt trade, indigenous knowledge, traditional wildlife management, natural resource management, and indigenous societies are addressed.