Drilling through Conservation Policy: Oil Exploration in Murchison Falls Protected Area, Uganda
Approximately 2.5 billion barrels of commercially-viable oil, worth $2 billion in annual revenue for 20 years, were discovered under the Ugandan portion of the Albertine Rift in 2006. The region also contains seven of Uganda's protected areas and a growing ecotourism industry. We conducted inte...
Main Authors: | Catrina A MacKenzie, Rebecca K Fuda, Sadie Jane Ryan, Joel Hartter |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2017-01-01
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Series: | Conservation & Society |
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Online Access: | http://www.conservationandsociety.org/article.asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2017;volume=15;issue=3;spage=322;epage=333;aulast=MacKenzie |
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