Hwange National Park: working with communities to address human-wildlife conflict
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- Опубликовано: 30 апр 2024
- Around Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park, communities live in close proximity with elephants and other wild animals. Many of these species, like African savannah elephants, are endangered, and they often wander close to villages when they are seeking food, water, and other resources. Due to habitat fragmentation, elephants are running out of space. This is why IFAW is pioneering Room to Roam, which aims to reverse habitat loss and prevent human-wildlife conflict.
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Thankyou IFAW for helping wildlife and people in need. You are a wonderful orginization.
Thank you Ifaw. I have every faith in you to help And protect éléphants And communities as well. I love Hwange. ❤
Thank you for sharing this story with us. It is wonderful to see what you are doing to help the local communities. It is so important.
I wonder if there are ideas that you might consider using from other parts of the world that have similar problems? India has similar issues with the local community and its wildlife. The local people there suffer with similar issues as the people who live around Hwange National Park. What India has done, to ensure the local people benefit directly from the national park is:-
1). No private vehicles can enter the park. Tourists can only enter the park in a hired a jeep and driven by a driver from the local community. The jeep is owned by a villager who lives around the park, not some one living in Delhi. To purchase the vehicle the villager obtains a loan from the bank to purchase the vehicle.
2). In addition to this, every vehicle entering the park has to have a local wildlife guide. This guide comes from the community that lives around the park.
3). The tourist camps only employ local people who live around the park.
4). Everyone who works in the park is from the local community. Not from else where, ensuring the local community directly benefit from the park.
5). If a local farmer loses an animal killed by a predator, a tiger or leopard, the kill is immediately verified and the farmer is immediately compensated to the value of the animal lost.
6) Part of the park entry fee paid by the tourists goes towards paying for the local school and teacher, so the children of the community get an education paid for by the tourists who visit the park.
It is so important that those people who live around wildlife parks, benefit from the parks. Last year 2023 we visited 5 parks in India, I produced a series of videos of our trip to India, which features the parks, the guide and the drivers, learning from them how important the parks are to them and the local communities.
Keep up the excellent work. We humans share this planet with wildlife, which we must look after for future generations. Best wishes from the UK
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@@westaussie965 The biggest issue is of course too many people on this planet we share with wildlife. Sadly wildlife is being squeezed out because of us humans.
I believe it has been shown, educating young girls and women has the biggest impact on the quality of life, humans and wildlife because of smaller human families.