Profiling unauthorized natural resource users for better targeting of conservation interventions

Autor: E. J. Milner-Gulland, Medard Twinamatsiko, Julia Baker, Mariel Harrison
Přispěvatelé: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
Předmět:
Conservation of Natural Resources
Revenue sharing
poverty
mountain gorillas
resentment
Parks
Recreational
Internet privacy
05 Environmental Sciences
Psychological intervention
ComputingMilieux_LEGALASPECTSOFCOMPUTING
Forests
Survey methodology
unmatched count technique
Environmental protection
Natural Resources
Surveys and Questionnaires
poaching
uso de recursos protegidas
Humans
Uganda
Contributed Papers
Ecology
Evolution
Behavior and Systematics
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Motivation
Poverty
Ecology
business.industry
National park
pobreza
Law enforcement
06 Biological Sciences
resentimiento
Natural resource
Focus group
natural resource use
Contributed Paper
técnica de conteo no pareado
caza furtiva
Socioeconomic Factors
gorilas de montaña
07 Agricultural And Veterinary Sciences
business
Zdroj: Conservation Biology
ISSN: 1523-1739
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Popis: Unauthorized use of natural resources is a key threat to many protected areas. Approaches to reducing this threat include law enforcement and integrated conservation and development (ICD) projects, but for such ICDs to be targeted effectively, it is important to understand who is illegally using which natural resources and why. The nature of unauthorized behavior makes it difficult to ascertain this information through direct questioning. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda, has many ICD projects, including authorizing some local people to use certain nontimber forest resources from the park. However, despite over 25 years of ICD, unauthorized resource use continues. We used household surveys, indirect questioning (unmatched count technique), and focus group discussions to generate profiles of authorized and unauthorized resource users and to explore motivations for unauthorized activity. Overall, unauthorized resource use was most common among people from poor households who lived closest to the park boundary and farthest from roads and trading centers. Other motivations for unauthorized resource use included crop raiding by wild animals, inequity of revenue sharing, and lack of employment, factors that created resentment among the poorest communities. In some communities, benefits obtained from ICD were reported to be the greatest deterrents against unauthorized activity, although law enforcement ranked highest overall. Despite the sensitive nature of exploring unauthorized resource use, management‐relevant insights into the profiles and motivations of unauthorized resource users can be gained from a combination of survey techniques, as adopted here. To reduce unauthorized activity at Bwindi, we suggest ICD benefit the poorest people living in remote areas and near the park boundary by providing affordable alternative sources of forest products and addressing crop raiding. To prevent resentment from driving further unauthorized activity, ICDs should be managed transparently and equitably.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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