People, Culture & Conservation in West Africa:
Studies of Multispecies Coexistence

          Within it we include studies about people, flora and fauna as well as the social, cultural and ecological roles of supernatural entities and natural features, which in West Africa are sometimes personified through practices, culture and religious beliefs.

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We refer to the human-wildlife collective of interactive beings as “more-than-humans” – a term which groups together people, animals, plants and supernatural beings in a single broad category across social, physiological and ecological scales.