No. 2/2004
DESIGNING INTEGRATED CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS (ICDPS): ILLEGAL
HUNTING, WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND THE WELFARE OF THE LOCAL PEOPLE
Anne Borge Johannesen
Abstract:
This paper develops a bio-economic model to explore the effect on
illegal hunting, wildlife conservation and human welfare of the most common
instruments of existing ICDPs. It is demonstrated that stimulating working
opportunities in the formal sector has the potential of promoting conservation,
while money transfers and distribution of game meat to the local people
fail, if not explicitly linked to the conservation objective. The analysis
shows that such links, modelled as a risk of being excluded from the project
if caught in illegal hunting, may be a more durable mean for ICDPs to
reach its goal of improved wildlife conservation and human welfare. The
model is illustrated by numerical calculations with data from Serengeti,
Tanzania.
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