Forest resource utilisation and rural livelihoods: insights from Chobe enclave, Botswana

Garekae, Hesekia; Lepetu, Joyce; Thakadu, Olekae Tsompi

doi:10.1080/03736245.2019.1606730

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“…Firewood is the most frequently harvested forest product as it is a cheap and readily available source of energy for cooking and heating. These findings are consistent with previous research [20] in Kenya's Embobut forest and [11] in Botswana's Chobe enclave, which both identify firewood as the most gathered forest product. Grass/fodder was the second most commonly gathered forest product, according to all respondents' sources of livelihood dependency.…”

Section: Foresst Benifts and Local Communities' Perceptionsupporting

confidence: 92%

Local Community Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Biodiversity Conservation: In the Case of Arjo Diga Forest Ecosystem, Western Ethiopia

Gizachew¹

2021

IJNREM

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The study looked at how residents in the Arjo Diga forest, East Wollega Zone of Western Ethiopia felt about biodiversity conservation. The Arjo Diga Forest ecosystem is home to a great variety of animals and plants; this area may be a major contributor to the country's conservation strategy. However, over the past three decades, the realm round the forest ecosystem has seen significant anthropogenic pressures. Additionally, identifying the assorted factors that influence the attitudes and perceptions of local communities about protected areas and therefore the value of biodiversity is very important for local people to support conservation efforts. Purposive sampling was employed to collect data from three kebeles, which were chosen based on their level interaction, community distribution within or near the conservation forest and forest dependency. A household survey, key informant interview, field observation and focus group discussion were used to gather data. The questionnaire study included 222 households in total. SPSS version 26 was used to analyze the data. To explore the important contributing elements for local community impression and attitude, the Chi-square test and descriptive statistics were used. According to the study, the majority of local household heads (48.6%) are unaware of the importance of biodiversity conservation. There was a significant difference in age (x 2 =36.216, DF = 3 and p<0.05), education level (x 2 =73.021, DF=3 and p<0.05), and annual income (x 2 =90.75, DF=3 and p<0.05) in the view and attitude of the local residents toward the conservation values of Arjo Diga forest. As a result, it can be stated that age, education level, and income were the primary determinants of local community perspective and attitude. Furthermore, respondents report that farmland expansion (29.7%), charcoal production, and firewood production (21.6%) are intensifying, and that (55.86%) of respondents were not involved in the decision-making process, which could have a significant impact on biodiversity conservation sustainability. Soil and water conservation, as well as fencing, were among the important mitigation techniques approaches discovered in this study and used by local populations to conserve and develop the natural resource. As a result, urgent cooperation measures between biodiversity conservation management and stakeholders, as well as environmental education, should be addressed as part of a plan to protect Arjo Diga forest, taking into account these elements that influence attitudes and perceptions.

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Section: Foresst Benifts and Local Communities' Perceptionsupporting

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Local Community Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Biodiversity Conservation: In the Case of Arjo Diga Forest Ecosystem, Western Ethiopia

Gizachew¹

2021

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“…The study was conducted in two different human-dominated landscapes: the townships of Kasane and Kazungula, and the farming villages of the Chobe Enclave both located in the Chobe District (22,560 km 2 ) (Figure 1). The Chobe District is in the northeastern corner of Botswana and is bordered to the north by Namibia, and Zambia, and to the east by Zimbabwe (Garekae et al, 2019). A total of the 70% of the district is declared protected wildlife areas: Chobe National park 52% and forest reserves 18% (Garekae et al, 2017;Adams et al, 2020).…”

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Who is adjusting to whom?: Differences in elephant diel activity in wildlife corridors across different human-modified landscapes

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Leggett²,

Chase³

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Front. Conserv. Sci.

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The global impact of increased human activities has consequences on the conservation of wildlife. Understanding how wildlife adapts to increased human pressures with urban expansion and agricultural areas is fundamental to future conservation plans of any species. However, there is a belief that large wild free-ranging carnivores and ungulates, cannot coexist with people, limited studies have looked at wildlife movements through differing human-dominated landscapes at finer spatial scales, in Africa. This information is vital as the human population is only going to increase and the wildlife protected areas decrease. We used remote-sensor camera traps to identify the movement patterns of African elephant (Loxodonta africana) through six wildlife corridors in Botswana. The wildlife corridors were located in two different human-dominated landscapes (agricultural/urban), with varying degrees of human impact. While we found that elephants use corridors in both landscapes, they use the urban corridors both diurnally and nocturnally in contrast to agricultural corridors which were only nocturnal. Our results provide evidence for temporal partitioning of corridor use by elephants. We identified that seasonality and landscape were important factors in determining the presence of elephants in the corridors. Our findings demonstrate that elephant diel patterns of use of the wildlife corridor differs based on the surrounding human land-uses on an hourly basis and daily basis, revealing potential adaptation and risk avoidance behaviour.

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“…As human populations continue to grow and expand, we are putting increasing pressure on the world's forests, with devastating consequences. Deforestation and habitat destruction are among the greatest threats to forests and the species that depend on them, and these problems are only getting worse [1][2].…”

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Predatory species of Scolytinae in Bursa province of Turkey

Gencal

Sarikaya

2023

ijbch

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Scolytinae, a large group of Coleoptera, are a vital community that causes forest damage. Species such as Pityokteines curvidens (Germar), Orthotomicus erosus (Wollaston), Tomicus destruens (Wollaston), Tomicus minor (Hartig) and Ips sexdentatus (Boerner) are particularly prevalent in the region. In recent years, the prevalence of bark beetle species causing tree damage in the Bursa province has increased. The purpose of this study was to determine the predator species of bark beetles responsible for causing damage in the forest areas of the Bursa province. Specimens were collected from 8 sites in the study area and identified as belonging to 25 species in 2 orders and 12 families. In study found that species such as Synuchus vivalis (Illiger), Opilo taeniatus (Klug), Trichodes apiarius (Linnaeus), Anthrenus scrophulariae (Linnaeus), Trogoderma angustum (Solier), Trogoderma glabrum (Herbst), Ampedus cinnaberinus (Eschscholtz), Cylister angustatus (Hoffmann), Cylister filiformis (Erichson), Rhizophagus depressus (Fabricius), Rhizophagus dispar (Paykull), Ipidia binotata (Reitter), Corticeus linearis (Fabricius), Corticeus pini (Panzer), Nemosoma elongatum (Linnaeus) and Dichrostigma flavipes (Stein) represent new records for both the Marmara Region and the Bursa province. It has been observed that eight species of insects, region Clerus mutillarius (Fabricius), Thanasimus formicarius (Linnaeus), Aulonium ruficorne (Oliver), Cylister elongatus (Thunberg), Hypnogyra angularis (Ganglbauer), Megalinus scutellaris (Fauvel), Corticeus fraxini (Kugelann) and Temnochila caerulea (Olivier), have set new records for both the Marmara Region and the Bursa province of Turkey. Additionally, the presence of these species in the Bursa province represents a new record for the area. These findings were obtained through extensive studies of the insect populations in these regions.

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Forest resource utilisation and rural livelihoods: insights from Chobe enclave, Botswana

Cited by 13 publications

References 30 publications

Local Community Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Biodiversity Conservation: In the Case of Arjo Diga Forest Ecosystem, Western Ethiopia

Local Community Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Biodiversity Conservation: In the Case of Arjo Diga Forest Ecosystem, Western Ethiopia

Who is adjusting to whom?: Differences in elephant diel activity in wildlife corridors across different human-modified landscapes

Predatory species of Scolytinae in Bursa province of Turkey

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