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| Malembeka, F.J. | |
| Trend of trophy hunting in Tanzania: case study of six species in Selous game reserve | |
| 2013 Full Book | |
Tanzania is among the few African countries with remarkable arrays of wildlife species. This wildlife is important for the lives of all Tanzanians as a source of not only food and medicine (Patkin, 1995) but also income (through various activities, including photographic tourism and trophy hunting) (TNRF, 2008). The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) identifies and encourages conservation efforts of each member country to ensure effective management systems by achieving a balance between the three CBD's core objectives: conservation, sustainable use and equitable benefit sharing. In particular, CBD stresses that local communities should have access to genetic resources from the biodiversity and also that there should be fair and equitable sharing of benefits from the biodiversity around them (CBD, 2006). Tanzania practices trophy hunting as one form of wildlife utilization (MNRT, 2003; MNRT, 2007). This refers to a form of hunting, which is pleasurable to the hunter and which is done for leisure. It is also known as tourist- or sport hunting (Loveridge et al., 2007a). In Tanzania, trophy hunting means hunting of animals within a given hunting block for leisure or for obtaining trophies thereof and includes sport fishing (MNRT, 2010). |
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