Perceptions and Behaviors of Indigenous Populations Regarding Illegal Use of Protected Area Resources in East Africa’s Mountain Gorilla Landscape

Sabuhoro, Edwin; Wright, Brett A.; Powell, Robert B.; Hallo, Jeffrey C.; Layton, Patricia A.; Munanura, Ian E.

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“…To avoid or minimize a social bias towards questions targeting the topic of illegal activities (see, e.g., [35,36]) or a common method bias, e.g., [37], we implemented diverse methodological approaches during the interviews, such as decreasing the respondent's concerns about admitting to or sharing views on illegal hunting activities by emphasizing the anonymity, importance, and scientific character of the survey, and by adjusting the survey environment, i.e., ensuring bystanders were not present, e.g., [38]. To validate the information obtained from the local communities, we used the ranger-based monitoring data presented in the Section 4.…”

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“…Therefore, addressing the socio-economic livelihood needs and challenges of communities [60,61] through the provision of alternative income streams, employment, and integrated conservation and development projects is vital in ensuring effective protected area management. Recent studies suggest that when communities benefit from protected areas, they are more likely and willing to protect the park and reduce engagement in illegal activities [36,62].…”

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Exploring the Knowledge and Perceptions of Local Communities on Illegal Hunting: Long-Term Trends in a West African Protected Area

Afriyie

Asare

Hejcmanová

2021

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Local communities in rural areas are dependent on hunting for their livelihoods and rely on their knowledge to understand wildlife ecology. Their knowledge and perceptions may be vital for forming effective and sustainable management plans related to wildlife conservation. We aimed to examine perceptions of local people living inside (n = 153 households) and outside (n = 178 households) the Kogyae Strict Nature Reserve (KSNR, Ghana) regarding bushmeat prevalence and long-term trends in illegal hunting, and to explore people’s knowledge about hunting tools, species, and reasons to hunt illegally. Perceptions of bushmeat sightings and illegal hunting trends were influenced by living inside or outside the protected area, gender, and residence time. Residents living inside the reserve perceived bushmeat and hunting as frequently present in their environment mainly due to frequent sightings of bushmeat and other wildlife products, while people living adjacent to the KSNR were more knowledgeable about the decrease in illegal hunting trends, probably because of awareness about penalties and biodiversity conservation. Furthermore, the perceptions of most residents about the decrease in hunting over time were validated by long-term KSNR law enforcement data. The perception in local communities that snares were the commonest form of hunting equipment used was also consistent with the ranger-based monitoring data. The need for money, bushmeat, unemployment, and retaliatory killings were the main drivers for illegal hunting. Our findings indicated that local people’s knowledge can have a valid relevance in protected area management and may assist in developing effective conservation strategies and in overall improvement of local socio-ecological systems.

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Section: Hunting Equipment Hunted Animal Species and Reasons For Huntingmentioning

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Exploring the Knowledge and Perceptions of Local Communities on Illegal Hunting: Long-Term Trends in a West African Protected Area

Afriyie

Asare

Hejcmanová

2021

Forests

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“…National reports still identify the highest poverty levels in all three countries in direct vicinity to the National Parks (Bush et al, 2010;Kalulu et al, 2016, Kujirakwinja et al, 2010Twinamatsiko et al, 2014). In addition, and partly in consequence of this rampant poverty, illegal park activities such as logging and hunting in Rwanda 21 and the DRC, and charcoal production and fishing in PNVi specifically, persist (Marijnen & Verweijen, 2016;Sabuhoro et al, 2020). In response, park managers have introduced stricter law enforcement measures by conservation staff, from imprisonment to the legalization of shoot-on-sight in Uganda and the DR Congo.…”

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Fortress tourism: exploring dynamics of tourism, security and peace around the Virunga transboundary conservation area

Trogisch

Fletcher

2020

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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This paper examines the role of tourism in promoting peace around transboundary protected areas (TBPA) in conflict-affected regions through a case study of the Virunga TBPA straddling the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda. Also praised as 'peace parks', TBPAs embody the rationale that stimulating a tourism economy in shared conservation spaces will provide incentives for formerly antagonistic states and actors to cooperate. Virunga TBPA exemplifies this strategy by promoting high-end gorilla tourism in a region scarred by longstanding conflict. Drawing on twelve months of fieldwork, we found that these optimistic aspirations are contradicted by militarisation of the three National Parks constituting the TBPA, as well as prevalence of violence and political segregation among the countries. As park authorities sell 'feelings of security' by framing their neighbours as threats in order to attract visitors, intrastate competition and conflict intensifies. Peace tourism rhetoric and revenues allow the governments to justify and finance the militarisation as necessary to protect 'their' tourists while concealing their security interests in protecting national borders. This contradiction between tourism's ostensive 'peace dividend' and the violence it generates within transboundary conservation efforts poses the question: what kind of 'peace' can be generated through tourism, and for whom?

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“…National reports still identify the highest poverty levels in all three countries in direct vicinity to the National Parks (Bush et al 2010;Kalulu et al 2016, Kujirakwinja et al 2010Twinamatsiko et al 2014). In addition, and partly in consequence of this rampant poverty, illegal park activities such as logging and hunting in Rwanda 25 and the DRC, and charcoal production and fishing in PNVi specifically, persist (Marijnen and Verweijen 2016;Sabuhoro et al 2020). In response, park managers have introduced stricter law enforcement measures by conservation staff, from imprisonment to the legalization of shoot-on-sight in Uganda and the DR Congo.…”

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“…These activities comprise the collection of water, bamboo or honey, logging as well as hunting small animals, an act that is referred to as 'poaching' in conservation law (CGIS/DFGI 2018). However, studies have found that 'poaching' in VNP and MGNP is mostly carried out by unarmed local residents with self-built snares hunting for means of subsistence (Sabuhoro et al 2020).…”

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Geographies of fear : Exploring the transboundary nature of conservation and conflict among the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Uganda

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IIIiii challenges of PhD administration. The time in Wageningen would have been cold and empty without the light-filling moments with Britt Broekhaus. In deepest appreciation I want to thank Yvette Buist sharing her beautiful soul with me and Julia van Middelaar who is always there, always shining, always taking care of me when I forgot myself. Further, I am grateful to have met Anne Leroy -her encouragement and her mapping skills can be found on these pages.These years of research and fieldwork would not have been possible without a full doctoral scholarship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. This also enabled me to have a lovely home thanks to the generosity of Marian de Wit and Onno Knol, as well as Matthias Weichelt.It is sad that I cannot express my gratitude to some of the most important people shaping my fieldwork as the need for their anonymization or pseudonymization in the given context surpasses my wish to explicitly thank them. They deserve the main part of these acknowledgements and even -and especially -without their names they shall be seen and read between all lines. Without their trust, support, knowledge, and protection this thesis would be void of content. Alongside the silent names, some can and need to be written down filling the various places of my journey with meaning: Sally sharing her house, her singing and her kindness with me. Derek giving me a home, a family and a sense of belonging. Rebecca Besant and Search for Common Ground helping me to understand 'slowly by slowly'. The people from the Karisoke Research Centre, Dian Fossey Fund International and the Gorilla Doctors, specifically Sarah who made me a friend, and Winnie, her dogs and her warming soups when me and my low moral came down from the mountains. Loes, Celine and Julia creating the most wonderful moments for me by pulling me out of the field and the work of fieldwork. The people from Mgahinga whose patience, hospitality and kind-heartedness I have never encountered elsewhere in the world. Daniel Roher who once upon a time found me bedridden with Malaria in Uganda and ever since made us companions and research assistants. His beautiful mind, photography and drawings figure prominently throughout this thesis. Tom Reid whose curious questions and loving support gave me perspective and perseverance. Pat and his colleagues sharing everything they could with me including their own safety. The women of North Kivu allowing me a glimpse into their dignity and strength. Sabine Schmitt making me feel so at home that life in Goma was joy in spite of violence. Marius Mardare who held me together when I was falling apart nonetheless. Zachary Norman reminding me of light in some very dark hours. Katy Robjant contributing decisively to that light as well as my understanding of the everyday lives in the Eastern DRC. I thank my legs -and Tonnie Dirks who taught me how to use them -that carried me up and down the mountains and through uncountable runs for inspiration and sanity. Thank you.IV iv I am very grateful for the junior re...

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Perceptions and Behaviors of Indigenous Populations Regarding Illegal Use of Protected Area Resources in East Africa’s Mountain Gorilla Landscape

Cited by 12 publications

References 50 publications

Exploring the Knowledge and Perceptions of Local Communities on Illegal Hunting: Long-Term Trends in a West African Protected Area

Exploring the Knowledge and Perceptions of Local Communities on Illegal Hunting: Long-Term Trends in a West African Protected Area

Fortress tourism: exploring dynamics of tourism, security and peace around the Virunga transboundary conservation area

Geographies of fear : Exploring the transboundary nature of conservation and conflict among the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Uganda

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