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| Jones, B.T.B. | |
| Community benefits from Safari hunting and related activities in Southern Africa | |
| 2009 Book Chapter | |
Some community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) programmes rest on the assumption that recreational hunting, often combined with other forms of wildlife use such as ecotourism, can generate sufficient benefits to provide an incentive for rural communities to conserve wildlife and habitat over the long term. Sophisticated CBNRM programmes have been developed in southern Africa with donor support for more than 15 years (e.g. Gibson & Marks, 1995; Wainwright & Wehrmeyer, 1998; Twyman, 2000; Bond, 2001; Jones, 2001; Murombedzi, 2003). This chapter considers the benefits and costs to local people of such programmes in Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe, and their impacts on local livelihoods. It should be noted that widely diverging goals and contexts, and changes over time, make it difficult to generalise about CBNRM across southern Africa (Fabricius et al., 2001). Few CBNRM projects have systematically collected data on livelihood impacts (Jones, 2004; Arntzen et al., 2007b), or reviewed projects over periods longer than 18 months. Data collection methods often differ, and the benefits measured are often different and do not necessarily occur in all communities. This chapter therefore does not aim to provide definitive conclusions for southern Africa, but provides some examples of how CBNRM is benefiting communities in some countries while also considering examples of negative impacts. |
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