Indigenous knowledge and rangelands’ biodiversity conservation in Tanzania: success and failure

摘要: Tanzania is one of the African countries endowed with diverse rangeland’s biological resources hosting 6 out 25 globally known biodiversity hotspots. Despite, government efforts on conservation, pressures rangelands’ utilization are growing in line increasing human population. With little recognition contribution local knowledge current paper reviewed potential available indigenous and challenges limiting adoption this vital conservation. This review established that, country has rich for rangeland management conservation. Traditional enclosures pastoral mobility among important practices used rehabilitation degraded rangelands conservation fragile ecosystems. The coexistence communities complex ecosystems offers them excellent experiences However, increasingly loss attributed to ignoring which skills management. Among hindering involvement are; scientific bias toward communities, expertise, poor inheritance systems, poverty, conflicts emergence pandemic diseases. For effective sustainable utilisation knowledge, following recommended; fully engagement process, empowering reduce poverty conflicts, mainstreaming education, emphasising livelihoods diversification reliance promoting studies document existing knowledge.