Comparing pressures on national parks in Ghana and Tanzania: The case of Mole and Tarangire National Parks

Abukari, Haruna; Mwalyosi, Raphael B. B.

doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2018.e00405

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“…The findings of the study have revealed that one of the main reasons why some hunters failed to observe the closed hunting season was because of the absence of an alternative source of livelihood to support themselves and their families. Similar findings were noted among residents in the Western Serengeti, Tanzania ( Kideghesho et al., 2016 ), in the forest-fringed communities closer to the Chiquibul National Park in Belize, Central America ( Groff and Axelrod, 2013 ), and among the rural dwellers around the Mole National Park in Ghana and the Tarangire National Park in Tanzania ( Abukari and Mwalyosi, 2018 ). The park officers at the Bomfobiri Wildlife Sanctuary admitted that the hunters had to be supported with alternative sources of livelihood provided by the government and other benevolent NGOs which would help prevent them from engaging in full-scale hunting during the closed season.…”

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Local attitudes toward the cultural seasonal hunting bans in Ghana’s Bomfobiri Wildlife Sanctuary: Implications for sustainable wildlife management and tourism

Adom

Boamah

2020

Global Ecology and Conservation

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This study investigated the attitudes of the people living in three adjacent communities close to the Bomfobiri wildlife sanctuary in Ghana concerning the observation of the cultural, seasonal closures of hunting. The cognitive and motivational approaches to attitude theory in wildlife management guided, under the phenomenology method, the collection of qualitative data on the importance of the seasonal closure of hunting and its implementation challenges. This inquiry was deemed crucial to improving the disjointed relationship between park management and local communities that often make wildlife conservation and tourism difficult at the Bomfobiri Wildlife Sanctuary. Forty-five key wildlife stakeholders, including park officers, traditional authorities, elderly residents, and bushmeat traders, were purposively selected with some interviewed personally and others engaged in focus group discussions. Despite a more significant number of stakeholders admitting the importance of the seasonal closure of hunting, some challenges impeded its implementation. These included the absence of alternative arrangements to support hunters during the period for the annual closure of hunting; lack of proper sensitisation and education on the hunting ban; absence of transparency in the equitable sharing of proceeds from wildlife tourism at the Bomfobiri Wildlife Sanctuary among park officers (Government) and the traditional authorities; the booming bushmeat business and the fear of losing customers after the fallow period; and purported corruption on the part of park officers, threatening the observation of the seasonal closure of hunting. The study has offered proactive suggestions to the Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission and mainly to park management at the Bomfobiri Wildlife Sanctuary on how to address these challenges and improve wildlife management and sustainable wildlife tourism potentials in Ghana. Paramount among them is the tactful provision of alternative sources of livelihood and the establishment of enterprises in non-timber forest products as sources of income for hunters during the seasonal hunting ban.

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Local attitudes toward the cultural seasonal hunting bans in Ghana’s Bomfobiri Wildlife Sanctuary: Implications for sustainable wildlife management and tourism

Adom

Boamah

2020

Global Ecology and Conservation

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“…Mole NP-Ghana. (Abukari & Mwalyosi, 2018). Tarangire NP is surrounded by 42 local communities, and most of the people in these communities are agro-pastoralists or pure pastoralists.…”

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Comparing Conservation Attitudes of Park-Adjacent Communities: The Case of Mole National Park in Ghana and Tarangire National Park in Tanzania

Abukari

Mwalyosi

2018

Tropical Conservation Science

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The success of biodiversity conservation in African countries depends to a large extend on the cooperation of local communities. This study compared factors that influence attitudes of local communities toward the conservation of the Tarangire National Park (Tarangire NP) in Tanzania and Mole National Park (Mole NP) in Ghana. The purpose was to find out if the predominantly agricultural-communities around the Mole NP in Ghana will differ in park-attitude than the predominantly pastoral-communities around the Tarangire NP in Tanzania. Household survey was used to assess attitudes and focus group discussions used to elicit further information from respondents to complement the survey data. The study surveyed 365 households in 7 villages: 3 villages adjacent to the Tarangire NP and 4 villages adjacent to the Mole NP. There was significant difference between the park-attitudes of residents in communities near the Mole NP and their counterparts in communities near the Tarangire NP. However, respondents in both countries showed slightly positive and negative attitudes toward the parks as ecological entities and as community development agents, respectively. Factors that had significant effects on attitudes include: "knowledge of park rules," "employment in park," "distance between village and park," "household size," "access to non-timber forest products," and "livelihood activity." The findings suggest that any efforts aimed at increasing local community support for any of the two national parks should critically consider livelihoods diversification, population control, and extensive conservation education in neighboring communities.

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“…Nevertheless, boundaries and zones within NP Sharri, in Luboten area are noticed that not always were set and established with exact conservation aims, based on field pressures and threats. Instead, it seems they were chosen based on a variety of other factors including remoteness, areas of least economic value, and habitats with high exquisite aesthetical value (Abukari & Mwalyosi, 2018;Terborgh & van Schaik, 2002). Through this we would like to highly encourage the responsible authorities to do alter and fix protection zone borders in accordance with on-field situation of endangered plant taxa and their corresponding habitats.…”

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Relation between boundaries of protected areas and the distribution of vulnerable natural habitats – a case study from Sharri National Park, SE Europe

Berisha¹,

Ćušterevska²,

Lluga-Rizani

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A growing threat to areas designed to protect habitats with high biodiversity has been noticed. In order to assess the present level of threat, the correlation between the factual situation of natural habitats and the boundary of protected area was studied in the massif of Luboten, Sharri NP. 45 phytosociological relevès were made in the studied site, all habitat types were recorded and notes on presence of rare and endemic plant taxa were taken. It was noticed that within the massif of Luboten, Sharri NP, an endangered natural habitat of subalpine moist tall herbs is not covered within the strictly protected area. The Moesian hogweed tall herb communities with Cirsium appendiculatum Griseb., as the most distinctive plant species, are known to harbor several endemic and rare plant species. To further add conservation importance, in these habitats with narrow distribution and fragile environment, there is one South-European Orophilous plant species (Willemetia stipitata), as well as 12 Balkan endemic plant taxa. The corresponding recorded plant association is Doronico gigantei-Cirsietum appendiculati Horv. ex Quez. Based on the obtained data on the situation of this habitat, we highly suggest extending the strictly protected area for 0.56 km 2 into the NW direction of the western slope.

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Comparing pressures on national parks in Ghana and Tanzania: The case of Mole and Tarangire National Parks

Cited by 27 publications

References 29 publications

Local attitudes toward the cultural seasonal hunting bans in Ghana’s Bomfobiri Wildlife Sanctuary: Implications for sustainable wildlife management and tourism

Local attitudes toward the cultural seasonal hunting bans in Ghana’s Bomfobiri Wildlife Sanctuary: Implications for sustainable wildlife management and tourism

Comparing Conservation Attitudes of Park-Adjacent Communities: The Case of Mole National Park in Ghana and Tarangire National Park in Tanzania

Relation between boundaries of protected areas and the distribution of vulnerable natural habitats – a case study from Sharri National Park, SE Europe

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