Open AccessResearch objectives in South African national parks
Author(s) -
U. de V. Pienaar
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
koedoe
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.419
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 2071-0771
pISSN - 0075-6458
DOI - 10.4102/koedoe.v20i2.1266
Subject(s) - national park , ecological succession , natural (archaeology) , geography , ecology , environmental resource management , ecosystem , environmental protection , environmental science , archaeology , biology
The primary purpose of any national park service in administering natural areas is to maintain an area’s ecosystems in as nearly pristine a condition as possible. This means that ecological processes, including plant succession and the natural regulation of animal numbers, should be permitted to proceed as far as possible as they did under pristine conditions, and that modern man must be restricted to generally non-consumptive uses of these areas (Houston 1971).