Reserve assets. Armed groups and conflict economies in the national parks of Burkina Faso, Niger and Benin
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Reserve assets. Armed groups and conflict economies in the national parks of Burkina Faso, Niger and Benin
Violent extremist groups have been expanding from their primary bases in Mali and Burkina Faso towards the southern and coastal states of West Africa. One of the main corridors for this expansion has been the stretch of protected land comprising the W, Arly and Pendjari national parks. This area of connected natural reserves, which also contains several smaller semi-protected areas and hunting concessions, is referred to as the WAP complex. Read here
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