Evaluating the Relationship between National Park Management and Local Communities’ Perceptions Based on Survey, a Case of Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda

Implementation of conservation partnership to improving the role of local community in the management of Mount Rinjani National Park, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

“…To reduce conflicts between national park managers (including wildlife that live in the national park) and local communities that depend on resources in the national park, several methods have been implemented. The park management policies of the Nyungwe National Park in Rwanda started to shift residents from traditional mindsets to thoughts about tourism development (Nyirarwasa et al 2020); minimizing forest dependency to the vulnerable people in the Chitwan National Park, Nepal (Poudel 2019); implemented to plant vegetation and fruits inside the KYNP boundary such as corn, coconuts and bananas so that the animals could enjoy the crops inside national park areas and they would not come out to cause problems (Yng and Hasan 2022). Hereafter, the management of the Northern Gonarezhou National Park, Zimbabwe, to reduce conflict in the national park is implementing the Communal Areas Management Program for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE), which is an effort to empower local communities adjacent to the national park which is considered one of the main initiatives adopted to ensure that there is no conflict between the economic viability of agricultural communities and the foraging needs of wildlife (Gandiwa et al 2013).…”

Exploring the landscape pattern change analysis for the transboundary Nyungwe-Kibira Forest (2000–2019): a spatially explicit assessment

“…Moreover, while previous assessments have analyzed Nyungwe and Kibira as separate protected areas, the transboundary nature of this interconnected forest landscape has been rarely considered in fragmentation studies. For instance, the Nyungwe national park has only previously been considered to evaluate the relationship between national park management and local communities perceptions based on Survey (Nyirarwasa et al, 2020), study climatology and potential climate change impacts (Seimon, 2012), assess the privatization of the park buffer zone and its implications for adjacent communities (Gross-Camp et al, 2015), analyze the contribution of community conservation and ecotourism projects on improving livelihoods and sustainable biodiversity conservation in and around the Park (Imanishimwe et al, 2018), examine the quality and performance nexus of the community-based ecotourism enterprises (Munanura et al, 2018), assess forest dependency and its implications for protected areas management (Masozera and Alavalapati, 2004), and evaluate the conservation efforts of multi-projects using remote sensing and Light Use Efficiency Model (Rutebuka et al, 2017). On the other hand, previous studies considered Kibira National Park to assess local community views on its ecosystem services (Ndayizeye et al, 2020), evaluate its structure and floristic composition (Hakizimana et al, 2016), and analyze the morphometry of the park using geospatial techniques (Sibomana et al, 2018).…”

The Contribution of the Udzungwa Mountain National Park to the Livelihoods of Communities in the Morogoro Region of Tanzania

“…A sustainable management of national parks requires collective measures between the communities (local people), park staff/ employees, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), local organizations and other stakeholders (Nyirarwasa et al, 2020). Evidence suggests that, individual motives on the management of national parks are possible when people meet their livelihood through it.…”