Evaluating the Prospects of Benefit Sharing Schemes in Protecting Mountain Gorillas in Central Africa

Mukanjari, Samson; Bednar–Friedl, Birgit; Muchapondwa, Edwin; Zikhali, Precious

doi:10.1111/nrm.12010

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“…There are opportunities for free-riding when incentives are directed at the community rather than households or individuals. Thus, the provision of incentives at the household/individual level remains a challenge in African community conservation (Muchapondwa 2002, Mukanjari et al 2013.…”

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Whereto with institutions and governance challenges in African wildlife conservation?

Muchapondwa

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2015

Environ. Res. Lett.

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African wildlife conservation has been transformed, shifting from a traditional, state-managed government approach to a broader governance approach with a wide range of actors designing and implementing wildlife policy. The most widely popularized approach has been that of communitymanaged nature conservancies. The knowledge of how institutions function in relation to humans and their use of the environment is critical to the design and implementation of effective conservation. This paper seeks to review the institutional and governance challenges faced in wildlife conservation in southern and eastern Africa. We discuss two different sets of challenges related to the shift in conservation practices: the practical implementation of wildlife governance, and the capacity of current governance structures to capture and distribute economic benefits from wildlife. To some extent, the issues raised by the new policies must be resolved through theoretical and empirical research addressed at wildlife conservation per se. However, many of these issues apply more broadly to a wide range of policy arenas and countries where similar policy shifts have taken place.

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Section: Capture and Distribution Of Economic Benefits From Wildlife mentioning

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Whereto with institutions and governance challenges in African wildlife conservation?

Muchapondwa

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2015

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…Also, open forum discussion with all society members must be carried out to determine whether monetary or non-monetary benefits would be given and the parameters for sharing them ( Munkanjari et al., 2012 ). This should be highly transparent and a consensus must be reached to ensure a friendlier relationship between the park management and the rural communities as Twinamatsiko et al.…”

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Local attitudes toward the cultural seasonal hunting bans in Ghana’s Bomfobiri Wildlife Sanctuary: Implications for sustainable wildlife management and tourism

Adom

Boamah

2020

Global Ecology and Conservation

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This study investigated the attitudes of the people living in three adjacent communities close to the Bomfobiri wildlife sanctuary in Ghana concerning the observation of the cultural, seasonal closures of hunting. The cognitive and motivational approaches to attitude theory in wildlife management guided, under the phenomenology method, the collection of qualitative data on the importance of the seasonal closure of hunting and its implementation challenges. This inquiry was deemed crucial to improving the disjointed relationship between park management and local communities that often make wildlife conservation and tourism difficult at the Bomfobiri Wildlife Sanctuary. Forty-five key wildlife stakeholders, including park officers, traditional authorities, elderly residents, and bushmeat traders, were purposively selected with some interviewed personally and others engaged in focus group discussions. Despite a more significant number of stakeholders admitting the importance of the seasonal closure of hunting, some challenges impeded its implementation. These included the absence of alternative arrangements to support hunters during the period for the annual closure of hunting; lack of proper sensitisation and education on the hunting ban; absence of transparency in the equitable sharing of proceeds from wildlife tourism at the Bomfobiri Wildlife Sanctuary among park officers (Government) and the traditional authorities; the booming bushmeat business and the fear of losing customers after the fallow period; and purported corruption on the part of park officers, threatening the observation of the seasonal closure of hunting. The study has offered proactive suggestions to the Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission and mainly to park management at the Bomfobiri Wildlife Sanctuary on how to address these challenges and improve wildlife management and sustainable wildlife tourism potentials in Ghana. Paramount among them is the tactful provision of alternative sources of livelihood and the establishment of enterprises in non-timber forest products as sources of income for hunters during the seasonal hunting ban.

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“…Hundreds of publications have flowed from EfD research (figure 1). Among the 200 articles published in peer-reviewed journals, researchers have studied: improved maize varieties in Tanzania (Kassie et al , 2014); tourism eco-certification in Costa Rica (Blackman et al , 2014); adoption of lower-carbon cook stoves in Chile (Gómez et al , 2013); productivity growth in Chinese agriculture (Li and Zhang, 2013); fossil fuel and food tax incidence in Ethiopia (Mekonnen et al , 2013); efficiency of irrigation in Kenya (Njiraini and Guthiga, 2013); and protection of endangered gorilla populations in Central Africa (Mukanjari et al , 2013). The EfD/RFF book series has included The Emergence of Land Markets in Africa (Holden et al , 2009), Fuel Taxes and the Poor (Sterner, 2012), Agricultural Investment and Productivity: Building Sustainability in East Africa (Bluffstone and Köhlin, 2011) and others.…”

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The Environment for Development Initiative: lessons learned in research, academic capacity building and policy intervention to manage resources for sustainable growth

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This article reviews the history of the Environment for Development (EfD) initiative, its activities in capacity building and policy-oriented research, and case studies at its centres in Chile, China, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania. EfD promotes research-based policies to manage natural resources as engines of development. Since 1991, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) has provided funding for students from developing countries to earn a PhD at the Environmental Economics Unit (EEU) of the University of Gothenburg. Returning home, these economists face institutional and academic gaps that limit the adoption of research-based policies. In response, the first EfD centre was founded in 2004, and six more followed. Research focuses on agriculture, climate, fisheries, parks, wildlife, forestry, energy and policy design. This has yielded 200 peer-reviewed articles. Successful policy outcomes depend on relationships with policy makers, community involvement in livelihood strategies, strengthened institutional support, interdisciplinary approaches, and dissemination of research results.

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Evaluating the Prospects of Benefit Sharing Schemes in Protecting Mountain Gorillas in Central Africa

Cited by 16 publications

References 20 publications

Whereto with institutions and governance challenges in African wildlife conservation?

Whereto with institutions and governance challenges in African wildlife conservation?

Local attitudes toward the cultural seasonal hunting bans in Ghana’s Bomfobiri Wildlife Sanctuary: Implications for sustainable wildlife management and tourism

The Environment for Development Initiative: lessons learned in research, academic capacity building and policy intervention to manage resources for sustainable growth

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