Community-Driven Tourism Projects’ Economic Contribution to Community Livelihoods—A Case of Makuleke Contractual Park Community Tourism Project

Matiku, Susan; Zuwarimwe, Jethro; Tshipala, Ndivhuwo

doi:10.3390/su12198230

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“…In 2005, a partnership was forged with Wilderness Safaris to operate the Pafuri Lodge, this time without trophy hunting and with 10% of revenues directed to the Makuleke CPA (Makuleke 2004). Later, other tourism ventures agreed to share 10-15% of earnings; an eco-training camp educated community members; and SANParks, for its part, committed to promoting biodiversity on Makuleke lands (Matiku, Zuwarimwe, and Tshipala 2020). All this was in addition to jobs supplied.…”

Section: Two Case Studies: Hunting In South Africa and Zimbabwementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Makuleke came to see politically fueled conservation pressure as an encumbrance, with unease perhaps elevated by European legacies that have historically regarded Africa is an "Eden" that needs protecting (Reid 2001), which insinuates local incompetence. Though suitable for sport hunting, the Makuleke lands are remote and not ideal for photo safaris and suchlike (Magome and Murombedzi 2003), so that ecolodges and other non-consumptive tourism opportunities are rarely used at full capacity (Matiku et al 2020). Without sufficient revenue, one wonders about the long-term prospects for wildlife (Kepe 2004), though matters are mitigated by the fact that Makuleke lands lie within Kruger.…”

Section: Political Frictionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Africapitalism, Ubuntu, and Sustainability

Crippen¹

2021

Environmental Ethics

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Ubuntu originated in small-scale societies in precolonial Africa. It stresses metaphysical and moral interconnectedness of humans, and newer Africapitalist approaches absorb ubuntu ideology, with the aims of promoting community wellbeing and restoring a love of local place that global free trade has eroded. Ecological degradation violates these goals, which ought to translate into care for the nonhuman world, in addition to which some sub-Saharan thought systems promote environmental concern as a value in its own right. The foregoing story is reinforced by field research on African hunting operations that appear—counterintuitively—to reconcile conservation with business imperatives and local community interests. Though acknowledging shortcomings, I maintain these hunting enterprises do, by and large, adopt Africapitalist and ubuntu attitudes to enhance community wellbeing, environmental sustainability, and long-term economic viability. I also examine how well-intentioned Western conservation agendas are neocolonial impositions that impede local control while exacerbating environmental destruction and socioeconomic hardship. Ubuntu offers a conciliatory epistemology, which Africapitalism incorporates, and I conclude by considering how standard moral theories and political divisions become less antagonistic within these sub-Saharan frameworks, so even opponents can find common cause.

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Section: Two Case Studies: Hunting In South Africa and Zimbabwementioning

confidence: 99%