Conserving Wildlife in Africa: Integrated Conservation and Development Projects and Beyond

摘要: onservationists in Africa are struggling to develop new approaches protect the continent’s spectacular natural heritage. The challenge is design strategies that not only will ensure long-term viability of species and ecosystems but also be politically economically acceptable local communities governments. One approach has gained considerable attention recent years integrated conservation development project (ICDP), which attempts link biological diversity within a protected area social economic outside area. In ICDPs, incentives typically provided form shared decision-making authority, employment, revenue sharing, limited harvesting plant animal species, or provision community facilities, such as dispensaries, schools, bore holes, roads, woodlots, exchange for community’s support conservation. ICDP began earnest 1980s 1990s, although efforts wildlife with go back 1950s few areas Africa, Ngorongoro Conservation Area Tanzania. Currently, much funding by major bilateral multilateral donors ICDPs. A review (Alpert 1996) suggests there have been more than 50 projects 20 countries. Given popularity it discouraging so