community engagement in wildlife management
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Nathalie van [email protected]
1. Why is community engagement necessary?
2. A historical perspective
3. Challenges
4. Key ingredients to success
Social conservationists Ecocentric environmentalists
The elephant in the room
Putting the cart before the horse
Why is law enforcement not a success?
Bennet (2011) “Another inconvenient truth: the failure of enforcement systems to save charismatic species”
Before the colonial period, relations between local forest communities and the natural spaces were based on four systems of access and ownership :
1)collective ownership of all anthropoid spaces;
2)individual control of farmlands, water and some tree species;
3)free access to some major rivers, arid zones, roads and special products;
4)limited access to a common pool of resources like wildlife, forest products, NTFPs, some streams and natural forests
A historical perspective
From ownership to user rights
Over the colonial period, customary ownership and rights over natural resources were profoundly changed.
Poverty
ChallengesPoverty
Poverty
Challenges
Some times, exacerbated by industrial and conservation land grabs
Brudland report
The corporate land use shift (Bauer, 205)
Challenges
The loss of wildlife harvest traditions and the cultural dimensions of biodiversity
Challenges
Human wildlife conflicts
Challenges
Ownership : “the government’s wildlife” Challenges
Challenges
Economic value of wildlife
Challenges
Non consumptive use Consumptive use
“Como podemos conservar sin tocar” curaca Ticuna Amazonas Colombia
Long term monitoring and participatory methods for decision makings
Report Beyond enforcement