Benefits of wildlife-based land uses on private lands in Namibia and limitations affecting their development

dc.contributor.authorLindsey, Peter Andrew
dc.contributor.authorHavemann, Carl Peter
dc.contributor.authorLines, Robin M.
dc.contributor.authorPrice, A.E.
dc.contributor.authorRetief, Tarryn Anne
dc.contributor.authorRhebergen, T.
dc.contributor.authorVan der Waal, Cornelis
dc.contributor.authorRomanach, S.S.
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-11T07:35:43Z
dc.date.available2014-01-13T00:20:03Z
dc.date.issued2013-01-08
dc.description.abstractLegislative changes during the 1960s–1970s granted user rights over wildlife to landowners in southern Africa, resulting in a shift from livestock farming to wildlifebased land uses. Few comprehensive assessments of such land uses on private land in southern Africa have been conducted and the associated benefits are not always acknowledged by politicians. Nonetheless, wildlife-based land uses are growing in prevalence on private land. In Namibia wildlife-based land use occurs over c. 287,000 km2. Employment is positively related to income from ecotourism and negatively related to income from livestock. While 87% of meat from livestock is exported $95% of venison from wildlife-based land uses remains within the country, contributing to food security. Wildlife populations are increasing with expansion of wildlife-based land uses, and private farms contain 21–33 times more wildlife than in protected areas. Because of the popularity of wildlife-based land uses among younger farmers, increasing tourist arrivals and projected impacts of climate change on livestock production, the economic output of wildlife-based land uses will probably soon exceed that of livestock. However, existing policies favour livestock production and are prejudiced against wildlife-based land uses by prohibiting reintroductions of buffalo Syncerus caffer, a key species for tourism and safari hunting, and through subsidies that artificially inflate the profitability of livestock production. Returns from wildlife-based land uses are also limited by the failure to reintroduce other charismatic species, failure to develop fully-integrated conservancies and to integrate black farmers sufficiently.en_US
dc.description.librarianam2013en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipTRAFFIC East/Southern Africa and Tom Milliken for instigating this project and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and African Wildlife Conservation Fund.en_US
dc.description.urihttp://journals.cambridge.orgen_US
dc.identifier.citationLindsey, PA, Havemann, CP, Lines, RM, Price, AE, Retief, TA, Rhebergen, T, Van der Waal, C & Romrnach, SS 2013, 'Benefits of wildlife-based land uses on private lands in Namibia and limitations affecting their development', Oryx, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 41-53.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0030-6053 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1365-3008 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1017/S0030605311001049
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/20996
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_US
dc.rights© 2013 Fauna & Flora International.en_US
dc.subjectEcotourismen_US
dc.subjectFencingen_US
dc.subjectNamibiaen_US
dc.subjectPrivate landen_US
dc.subjectTransfrontieren_US
dc.subjectTrophy huntingen_US
dc.subjectWildlifeen_US
dc.titleBenefits of wildlife-based land uses on private lands in Namibia and limitations affecting their developmenten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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