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- Title
Wildlife harvesting guidelines for community-based wildlife management: a southern African perspective.
- Authors
Du Toit, Johan T.
- Abstract
Focuses on African wildlife populations and their habitats that are dwindling outside of state-protected areas due to escalating human demands on natural resources, while the effective enforcement of conservation legislation is impracticable across most of the continent. Area of Africa where extensive wildlife areas are rapidly giving way to subsistence agropastoralism; Discussion of the concept of community-based wildlife management (CBWM) which has been embraced by donor agencies as a hopeful solution in areas where adequate wildlife resources persist and agricultural potential is marginal; Impact on CBWM when communities have specific information to evaluate the sustainable benefits of wildlife in comparison with alternative landuse options; Role of scientifically sound monitoring procedures to ensure that the offtake from wildlife populations is kept within sustainable limits; Key ecological issues of relevance to CBWM in southern African savannas.
- Subjects
AFRICA; WILDLIFE management; WILDLIFE conservation; HUMAN settlements &; the environment; CONSERVATION of natural resources; POPULATION; AGROPASTORAL systems; AGRICULTURE
- Publication
Biodiversity & Conservation, 2002, Vol 11, Issue 8, p1403
- ISSN
0960-3115
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1016263606704