Community-based wildlife management area supports similar mammal species richness and densities compared to a national park.

ABSTRACT: Community-based conservation models have been widely implemented across Africa to improve wildlife conservation and livelihoods of rural communities. In Tanzania, communities can set aside land and formally register it as Wildlife Management Area (WMA), which allows them to generate revenue via consumptive or nonconsumptive utilization of wildlife. The key, yet often untested, assumption of this model is that economic benefits accrued from wildlife motivate sustainable management of wildlife. To test the ecological effectiveness (here defined as persistence of wildlife populations) of Burunge Wildlife Management Area (BWMA), we employed a participatory monitoring approach involving WMA personnel. At intermittent intervals between 2011 and 2018, we estimated mammal species richness and popu

SUBMITTER: Kiffner C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6972838 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature