The nature of hunting around the Western Corridor of Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Kaltenborn, Bjørn P.; Nyahongo, Julius W.; Tingstad, K. Margrethe

doi:10.1007/s10344-005-0109-9

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“…Many environmental studies in the Serengeti have demonstrated that where poverty is widespread, conservation can seldom excel (7,10,45). It is unlikely for people to accept a scenario where biodiversity conservation implies starvation.…”

Section: Adopt Livelihoods and Production Strategies That Are Ecologimentioning

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‘Serengeti Shall Not Die’: Transforming an Ambition into a Reality

Kideghesho

2010

Tropical Conservation Science

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The slogan "Serengeti shall not die" (German: Serengeti darf nicht sterben) is widely credited for alerting the global community to the urgency of conserving the Serengeti and its biological values for the benefit of local and global communities. The slogan has become popular since 1960 when Bernhard and Michael Grzimek authored a book, Serengeti Shall Not Die. However, despite this commitment the management challenges in Serengeti are growing, causing skepticism about the potential for realizing such a goal. These challenges include illegal hunting, habitat loss, and human-wildlife conflicts aggravated by human population growth and poverty. In addressing these challenges and therefore transforming the ambition "Serengeti shall not die" into reality, the multiple strategies required are presented in this paper. The paper starts by reviewing the challenges contradicting the ambition.

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‘Serengeti Shall Not Die’: Transforming an Ambition into a Reality

Kideghesho

2010

Tropical Conservation Science

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“…Attitudes, i.e., positive or negative individually based evaluations of an object or situation (Manfredo 2008), have been reported to be key predictors of behaviors associated with bushmeat and hunting. For example, there is evidence that attitudes concerning the role of sharing bushmeat in the fulfilment of social, cultural, and political needs are equally important in rural and urban areas (Wiessner 2002, Kaltenborn et al 2005, Patton 2005). Beliefs about the sustainability of bushmeat consumption also shape behavior (Lee et al 2009), which is why the topic is frequently the subject of conservation campaigns (Milner-Gulland and Bennett 2003).…”

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Cultural attitudes are stronger predictors of bushmeat consumption and preference than economic factors among urban Amazonians from Brazil and Colombia

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ABSTRACT. Bushmeat consumption persists in urban areas in the Neotropics, yet knowledge of its scale and the relative importance of cultural and economic factors in determining consumption and preference remain elusive. Moreover, the roles of cultural beliefs, social norms, and attitudes in driving urban bushmeat consumption are rarely evaluated. Therefore, we explored in this article the factors that influence consumption and preference for bushmeat in Amazonian towns. Given the availability of other sources of animal protein and the cultural and social importance of bushmeat in the region, we hypothesized that cultural attributes should be better predictors than economic factors of bushmeat consumption and preference. Data analysis involved fitting two-level mixed-effects regressions (random intercepts) to a structured sample of 227 individuals (99 households) from four towns in the Brazilian (Tabatinga and Atalaia do Norte) and Colombian (Leticia and Puerto Nariño) Amazon. The results indicate that a third of the interviewees had consumed bushmeat in the past month, which had primarily been harvested by the family or received as a gift rather than obtained through trade. In general, both economic and cultural factors predicted bushmeat consumption and preference, but the objective proxy for culture, individual origin, was unimportant. Among the tested indicators, the strongest predictor was the importance of bushmeat to social relations. Moreover, informal social norms, such as the greater importance attributed to taboos, tended to decrease the average number of wild species that a person would eat, whereas attitudes toward the illegality of hunting were less important. The two economic indicators, increased income and wealth, tended to decrease preference for bushmeat and the likelihood of consumption. Our findings highlight the importance of human beliefs, attitudes, and social norms to the understanding of bushmeat consumption and preference and may contribute to the design of more effective and locally appropriate conservation and management strategies.

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“…Park rangers who actively search for snares and signs of illegal hunting have identified buffalo carcasses in the field (Hilborn personal observation) and buffalo meat appears in villagers bushmeat diets (Ndibalema and Songorwa 2007). Illegal hunting remains a large threat to conservation efforts in the Serengeti (Holmern et al 2007;Kaltenborn et al 2005;Loibooki et al 2002) and, therefore, we determined whether illegal hunting was a contributing factor to the spatial differences in buffalo recovery.…”

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Evaluating the protection of wildlife in parks: the case of African buffalo in Serengeti

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Human population growth rates on the borders of protected areas in Africa are nearly double the average rural growth, suggesting that protected areas attract human settlement. Increasing human populations could be a threat to biodiversity through increases in illegal hunting. In the Serengeti ecosystem, Tanzania, there have been marked declines in black rhino (Diceros bicornis), elephant (Loxodonta africana) and African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) inside the protected area during a period when there was a reduction of protection through anti-poaching effort . Subsequently, protection effort has increased and has remained stable. During both periods there were major differences in population decline and recovery in different areas. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the possible causes of the spatial differences. We used a spatially structured population model to analyze the impacts of three factors-(i) hunting, (ii) food shortage and (iii) natural predation. Population changes were best explained by illegal hunting but model fit improved with the addition of predation mortality and the effect of food supply in areas where hunting was least. We used a GIS analysis to determine variation in human settlement rates and related those rates to intrinsic population changes in buffalo. Buffalo populations in close proximity to areas with higher rates of human settlement had low or 123Biodivers Conserv (2010) 19:3431-3444 DOI 10.1007/s10531-010-9904-z negative rates of increase and were slowest to recover or failed to recover at all. The increase in human populations along the western boundary of the Serengeti ecosystem has led to negative consequences for wildlife populations, pointing to the need for enforcement of wildlife laws to mitigate these effects.

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The nature of hunting around the Western Corridor of Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Cited by 65 publications

References 43 publications

‘Serengeti Shall Not Die’: Transforming an Ambition into a Reality

‘Serengeti Shall Not Die’: Transforming an Ambition into a Reality

Cultural attitudes are stronger predictors of bushmeat consumption and preference than economic factors among urban Amazonians from Brazil and Colombia

Evaluating the protection of wildlife in parks: the case of African buffalo in Serengeti

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