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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetSustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme Technical brief - What do we mean by community-based sustainable wildlife management? 2021
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In order to achieve robust community-based sustainable wildlife management, six key components are needed. These focus on understanding the environments and the resources they contain, community rights, governance, management, and reducing rural dependency on unsustainable natural resource use. These components represent the minimum prerequisites for sustainable wildlife management actions. If one of these is missing, sustainable use is unlikely to be achieved. These components are as follows:- understanding the environment and its use
- devolution of exclusionary rights
- local-level management by a competent authority
- social cohesion to manage as a community
- effective governance systems
- sustainable solutions for growth and increasing aspirations.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- Center for International Forestry Research(CIFOR)
- French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD)
- Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).
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DocumentWhat do we mean by community-based sustainable wildlife management?
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Community-based sustainable wildlife management (CB-SWM) is a collective social process by which resident rights holders agree to hunt or fish in a defined geographic area, in ways that maintain animal populations at stable levels over many decades. Remote rural communities use wildlife for food and income, and as part of their culture. Today, human population growth, increasing interconnectedness with urban areas and regional markets, and reduction of natural habitats, now threaten sustainability of wild meat offtake. Concurrently, weakening of rural governance systems has undermined local communities’ abilities to sustainably manage their natural resources. In the absence of people, wildlife populations fluctuate naturally with changes in food supply, predation pressure and disease prevalence. Hunting offtakes reduce animal populations below carrying capacity, but wildlife can persist whilst being hunted, as long as populations are not reduced below the level at which a random event (such as a disease outbreak or a climatic event) can wipe it out completely. Hunting is only one driver of population declines. If populations are impacted by additional human activities (e.g. agriculture, resource extraction or urbanisation), previously sustainable hunting may become unsustainable.
Six key components are key to achieve robust CB-SWM. These focus on understanding the environments and the resources they contain, community rights, governance, management, and reducing rural dependency on unsustainable natural resource use. These components are the minimum prerequisites for SWM action: if one is missing, sustainable use is unlikely to be achieved. The six components : “Understanding the environment and its use”; “Devolution of exclusionary rights”; “Local-level management by a competent authority”; “Social cohesion to manage as a community”; “Effective governance systems”; and “Sustainable solutions for growth and increasing aspirations” are described here. Keywords: Sustainable forest management, Biodiversity conservation, Adaptive and integrated management, Food systems, Value chain ID: 3487211 -
Poster, bannerWhat do we mean by community-based sustainable wildlife management?
Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme
2021Also available in:
The Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme aims to improve the conservation and sustainable use of wildlife in forest, savannah and wetland ecosystems in member countries of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS). Our work focuses on how to reconcile the challenges of wildlife conservation with food security and rural socio-economic development, particularly where rural communities use wildlife in their diet and to supplement their income, and where it is part of their culture. The SWM Programme is working in 15 countries, namely Botswana, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Gabon, Guyana, Madagascar, Mali, Namibia, Papua New Guinea, Republic of the Congo, Senegal, Sudan, Zambia and Zimbabwe. To achieve robust, community-based sustainable wildlife management, the SWM Programme is promoting a framework that encompasses a better understanding of the environment and its resources, community rights, governance, management, and reduces rural dependency on unsustainable natural resource use. These components represent the minimum prerequisites: if one is missing, sustainable use is unlikely to be achieved.
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