Ecotourism for Wildlife Conservation
Start Date: 27-06-2019
End Date: 01-06-2022
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Bhawna 6 years 1 week ago
These milestones thus ecotourism and wildlife conservation-related enterprises if realized would increase the size of the cake adding to the already existing CBNRM programs already benefitting the local community. For instance, the Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Park (GLTP) treaty was signed in 2002 (Spenceley, 2003) by the three head of state for Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Bhawna 6 years 1 week ago
Ecotourism and wildlife conservation-related enterprises were then embraced outside protected area to create benefits accruing to the local communities living adjacent protected areas (Suich, Child, & Spenceley, 2013).
Bhawna 6 years 1 week ago
This saw the adoption of a series of initiatives which sought to include and benefit the local community from wildlife conservation. Among others, the Integrated Conservation Development Projects (ICDP), Community-based natural resources management (CBNRM) and transfrontier conservation (Barrett & Arcese, 1995; Martin, 1986; Murombedzi, 2008; Spenceley, 2003)
Bhawna 6 years 1 week ago
Pressure also kept mounting on most governments in Southern Africa including Zimbabwe. They were put under immense pressure to harmonize conservation and community benefits (Decaro & Stokes, 2008). It was noted with concern that local community should take part in wildlife conservation other than being reduced to the role of spectators only (Metcalfe, 1993; Muphree, 2009; Murombedzi, 2008).
Bhawna 6 years 1 week ago
Strict conservation laws were then enacted; a brutal quasi-military unit of rangers was formed to enforce these laws (Büscher & Ramutsindela, 2016; Ellis, 1994; Songorwa, 1999; Spinage, 1998). This did not only prove to be costly but unsustainable as poaching and human wildlife conflicts kept on increasing (Barrett & Arcese, 1995). Over time, it was realized that there was need to shift from these centralized approach often referred to “fences and fines” towards community benefitting initiatives
Bhawna 6 years 1 week ago
In the early eighteenth century most colonial governments especially those in the Southern Africa adopted the American conservation approach “fortress” conservation approach (Jones, 2006). Wildlife was put into protected area and the local people were alienated from their wildlife.
Bhawna 6 years 1 week ago
Eco-tourism and wildlife conservation are complementary or overlapping sectors of the economy (Buckley, 2010). Globally, literature has proved demand for ecotourism-related products is on the rise (Balmford et al., 2009). Income generated from ecotourism can be used fund both wildlife conservation and socio-economic development to benefits local communities (Bello, Lovelock, & Carr, 2017).
Bhawna 6 years 1 week ago
The Greater Limpopo Transfrontier conservation area was put in place in 2002. However, 17 years after its formation the local communities are still living under abject poverty. It is therefore important to make an assessment on the ecotourism and wildlife related enterprise to better understand challenges hampering it development. This is important for the further development frameworks for improved community beneficiation from Transfrontier conservation approaches
Bhawna 6 years 1 week ago
Scientists and policy-makers throughout the whole world concur that Ecotourism and Wildlife conservation-related enterprises are a very important economic engine to move poor rural communities out of abject poverty they are reeling in.
Bhawna 6 years 1 week ago
Public Interest Statement
Transfrontier conservation is widely regarded as an engine to foster Ecotourism and wildlife conservation. Ecotourism and wildlife conservation are complimentary. Related enterprises if properly planned and implemented they have great potential for poverty relief especially for those communities living within the Transfrontier conservation areas.