Community-based ecotourism at Tafi atome monkey sanctuary, a sacred natural site in Ghana

Sacred Natural Sites: Conserving Nature and Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 233-243

  Ormsby, Alison ^a   Edelman, Craig ^b  

^a ECKERD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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