Killing nature to save it? : an analysis of two sport hunting policy arrangements in Uganda

Ochieng, Amos

doi:10.18174/466995

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“…Where: C=total number of classes ( 7 Byakagaba et al, 2018;Tukahirwa, 2002;Kafureka, 1992;Ayorekire, 1999;Ayorekire et al, 2011;Ochieng, 2011;Ochieng, 2019;1973- 2 and 3, respectively. The overall accuracies for classified maps of 1987 and 2020 were 80.36% and 89.81%, respectively.…”

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Historical Perspectives of Land Use and Land Cover Change in the Sanga-Lake Mburo former Pastoral Rangeland Ecosystem, Uganda

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Lejju

Nkurunungi

2022

International Journal of Environment and Geoinformatics

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Socioeconomic, political, and policy decisions by the government may influence the socioecological changes of the land use and land cover pattern for rangeland people over time. This paper examines the historical political, policy, and socioeconomic decisions that influenced land use and land cover changes in the former pastoral community in Sanga-Lake Mburo Rangeland Ecosystem in South Western Uganda. Data on historical events were documented from literature and supplemented by an opportunistic discussion with Sanga residents. Data on land use and cover change detection between 1987 and 2020 were provided by Landsat 5 TM and Landsat 8 OLI/TIRS images and from field observations. Images were processed using QGIS version 3.20.1 employing a semi-automatic classification plugin. Political decisions and government policies related to land tenure and reforms, socioeconomics, and demographic changes were noted as underlying drivers of land use and cover changes. The overall accuracies for classified maps of 1987 and 2020 were 80.36% and 89.81%, respectively. Notably, woodland cover in the protected area increased by 170.53% between 1987 and 2020, while built-up areas and farmland increased 1348.15% and 405.03%, respectively. In the same period, wetland cover in protected and unprotected decreased immensely by 46.06%. Bareland in the park decreased by 23%, while outside the park, it increased by 25.07%. This study concludes that land use and land cover change resulted from sociocultural changes, political and policy decisions on ranches, park management, and land tenure restructuring.

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Historical Perspectives of Land Use and Land Cover Change in the Sanga-Lake Mburo former Pastoral Rangeland Ecosystem, Uganda

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Lejju

Nkurunungi

2022

International Journal of Environment and Geoinformatics

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“…In this paper, we focus on poaching by the local residents as a form of humanwildlife conflicts, since this is what the Ugandan government meant by HWC in its sport hunting policy. Uganda responded to declining wildlife populations in the 1970s due to poaching by a ministerial decree that banned all forms of hunting (Ochieng 2019). Although the local residents usually hunt for subsistence, in some instances, they practice poaching as a form of revenge-especially where wildlife destroys crops or kills humans (Ochieng 2019).…”

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“…Uganda responded to declining wildlife populations in the 1970s due to poaching by a ministerial decree that banned all forms of hunting (Ochieng 2019). Although the local residents usually hunt for subsistence, in some instances, they practice poaching as a form of revenge-especially where wildlife destroys crops or kills humans (Ochieng 2019). We therefore operationalise conservation impacts in terms of reducing poaching and analyse the rate of poaching based on the available seizure data to determine whether there is a decrease or increase in poaching in the two areas.…”

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“…Hunting as a sport in Africa dates back to the 1800s, following the arrival of early explorer-hunters on the continent (Ochieng 2019). In Uganda, the colonial administration demarcated areas abundant with wildlife for protection, hunting, and centralised control over wildlife by the 1926 game ordinance, which also limited all forms of hunting.…”

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“…The park is neighboured by the Bahima (nomadic pastoralists and subsistence farmers) and a few other tribes, such as the Bakiga and Baganda (cf. Ochieng 2019). Located in Hoima district, Kabwoya is part of the great Albertine Rift: the western branch of the East African Rift that runs through western Uganda and through parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania.…”

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Sport Hunting to Save Nature? The Case of Uganda

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After having banned sport hunting in 1979, Uganda reintroduced it in 2001 around Lake Mburo National Park, and in 2006 in the Kabwoya and Kaiso-Tonya Game Management Area, with the aim to reduce human-wildlife conflicts, especially poaching, by providing incentives for the local inhabitants in order to positively change residents' attitudes towards wildlife. We conducted interviews and reviewed documents to analyse and evaluate the impacts of reintroduction of sport hunting. The income generated from sport hunting was used to provide social services and implement social development projects. There was no proof of hunting income being used for conservation purposes. Although the local perceptions of the sport hunting benefits varied, the benefits did initially help to improve local residents' attitudes towards wildlife and poaching temporarily stopped-but resumed later. Hence, this study shows that the common underlying assumption of sport hunting policies and other market-and community-based approaches to conservation-that when local residents receive benefits, they will appreciate wildlife-is debatable.

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Killing nature to save it? : an analysis of two sport hunting policy arrangements in Uganda

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References 154 publications

Historical Perspectives of Land Use and Land Cover Change in the Sanga-Lake Mburo former Pastoral Rangeland Ecosystem, Uganda

Historical Perspectives of Land Use and Land Cover Change in the Sanga-Lake Mburo former Pastoral Rangeland Ecosystem, Uganda

Sport Hunting to Save Nature? The Case of Uganda

Can the subaltern speak? Contradictions in trophy hunting and wildlife conservation trajectory in Botswana

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