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| Funston, P.J. | |
| Recommendations from the lion management workshops: "Initiating a process towards a management plan for KTP lions and other large predators" Kalahari Transfrontier Lion Project | |
| 2001 Full Book | |
The current KTP Management Plan (Anon 1997, pp 12-14) gives guidelines for the management and necessary responses to predators that are a) sick or injured (Strategy 1), or b) that cause depredation on domestic livestock outside the park (Strategies 2,4,5) (see KTP Management Plan or Appendix 2). It also highlights the need for the development of cooperative relationships with neighboring communities (Strategy 3), the need to investigate the possibility of controlled hunting/utilization programmes for marauding animals (Strategy 6), the need for a promotional educational campaign to encourage stock owners to use stock management techniques to minimize predation on livestock (Strategy 7), to initiate research into large carnivore population trends and movement patterns on the Botswana side of the park (Strategy 8). Thus some of the strategies highlight the actions to take place in the specific incidences (Strategy 1,2,3,4 & 5), and others refer to processes that need to be initiated (Strategies 3,6,7,8). Referring specifically to the strategies regarding the response to problem animals (Strategies 2, 4 & 5), the findings and recommendations from the Kalahari Transfrontier Lion Project (KTLP) can be used to expand on these. The project also contributes to some of the issues pertaining to the processes that need to be initiated (Strategies 3,6,7 & 8), in that it has initiated several of these, and provides recommendations for the further implementation. The current need may thus not be a revised set of strategies, but to evaluate the current strategies them in the light of new findings and having initiated certain processes. Some inadequacies of the current strategies, particularly strategies 2,4 & 5, however, are that - they are not linked strongly to other studies that have addressed similar problems, they are not necessarily applicable or representative for the entire area surrounding the park, management staff either do not have the capacity to implement them or tend to ignore them. |
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