Environmental Challenges

Kruger National Park

The Kruger National Park, one of Africa’s largest game reserves, serves as a microcosm for the broader environmental challenges facing South Africa today. Through its diverse ecosystems and iconic wildlife, the park highlights the critical tensions between conservation and human impact. This essay explores these tensions through a series of photographs that depict wildlife conservation, human interaction, and the subtle forms of environmental degradation. By engaging with the work of environmental scholars like Nixon (2011), Carson (1962), Kolbert (2014), and Whitehouse (2015), this essay critically examines the concept of "slow violence" and calls for both eco-critique and eco-action.

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