Northern Eden

The Evaluating Eden project emerged from an earlier review of key issues in community wildlife management (CWM), which resulted in the Whose Eden? report (IIED, 1994). Whose Eden? focused mainly, although not exclusively, on experience in Africa, and was based largely on a review of literature. Evaluating Eden was initiated to take forward the debate on community wildlife management, by widening the geographical focus and looking beyond the literature. The Evaluating Eden project is a collaborative research project supported by DGVIII of the EC and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs-NEDA that aims to explore the myths and realities of community-based wildlife management. The project is coordinated by IIED with regional research teams from collaborating institutions in South and South-East Asia, South and Central America, West, Central, East and Southern Africa, Canada and Australia. The Evaluating Eden Series contains reports from each of these regions together with individual case study reports and theme papers. Chapters by: Leslie Treseder and Jamie Honda-McNeil; Mina Berkes and Fikret Berkes; Joe Dragon; Claudia Notzke; Tanja Schramm and Robert J. Hodson; and Leslie Treseder.