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Book (stand-alone)Towards sustainable wildlife management
An in-depth study for the promotion of community conservancies in Zambia and Zimbabwe
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No results found.Zambia and Zimbabwe, with Angola, Botswana and Namibia, constitute the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KaZa-TFCA), which is the largest transfrontier conservation area in the world (520 000 km²), and whose key objective is to join fragmented wildlife habitats to form an interconnected mosaic of protected areas and transboundary wildlife corridors. In this region, wildlife populations have declined over the past three decades, mainly due to poaching and loss of habitat. In this TFCA, the Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme aims to address these challenges by promoting the model of community conservancy (CC) to diversify income-generating activities and supply a well-balanced source of wild and domestic protein. In Zimbabwe, the SWM project in KaZa supports the emerging project of Mucheni CC encompassing three wards of Binga District, in Matabeleland North Province. In Zambia, the target implementation sites are the Simalaha and Inyasemu CC, located in Southern Zambia. The SWM Programme is an initiative of the Organization of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) funded by the European Union and co-financed by the French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM) and the French Development Agency (AFD). This seven-year programme (2017–2024) is being implemented in 15 OACPS member countries by a consortium of partners including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Centre for International Cooperation in Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD), the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetReducing human-carnivore conflict through participatory research 2022
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No results found.The Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme in Guyana aims to ensure that wildlife, ecosystems, and their services are conserved and the living conditions, food security, and cultural identity of rural villages are improved. Under one component of the SWM Programme, local beneficiaries led by the Rupununi Livestock Producers Association (RLPA) had identified that human-wildlife conflict was a significant issue in the region, requiring specific and urgent attention. This case study focuses on the Rupununi region, in Guyana, in which the presence of forested islands creates edge habitats for many wildlife species, such as jaguar, tapir, capybara, harpy eagle. In Guyana, the SWM Programme is working with the local communities to reduce human-carnivore conflict by conducting participatory research with the impacted stakeholders, following a community rights-based approach to ensure that indigenous peoples and local communities were fully involved in project design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the program. In collaboration with the communities, the SWM Programme has identified several gaps in understanding the situation to address it successfully. It is working together to fill these gaps before using the information to identify management strategies that can be implemented in the region by all parties. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetCo-developing a community camera trapping programme to deliver benefits of living with wildlife 2022
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No results found.In Tanzania, in collaboration with communities impacted by large carnivores such as lions, hyaenas and leopards, this case study highlights how a community camera trapping programme was co-developed between the local communities and the NGO Lion Landscapes to deliver benefits to the local communities living with wildlife. The case study focuses on the Rungwa-Ruaha landscape in Tanzania, which is one of the most important wildlife areas in Africa and it supports one of the world’s largest remaining populations of lions and globally significant populations of African wild dogs, cheetahs, leopards and spotted hyaenas. In 2015, the Ruaha Carnivore Project’s research project initiated a community camera trapping programme to create greater links between community benefits and the presence of wildlife in the area. The camera trapping programme has been successful in two ways: not only has it provided data on the wildlife populations present on village land, but it has also engaged and benefited the community, incentivising conservation. While previously, the villages received benefits from the project, now the villagers recognise that the benefits are received because of the wildlife present on their land.
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