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Collaborative management of wildlife for promotion of tourism in Africa : a case of Semuliki national park, western Uganda
(Geojournal of Tourism and Geosites, 2025-10) Nabalegwa, Muhamud Wambede; Namulemo, Alice; Asaba, Joyfred; Tweheyo, Robert
Collaborative management of natural resources has overtime received overwhelming support in developing countries after decades of colonial preservative approach. It is considered as the most appropriate management practice for all-natural resources including wildlife resources. The aim of this study was to identify the management strategies used and their performance in promoting sustainability of wildlife and tourism around Semuliki National Park, South Western Uganda. Across-sectional research design was used in the study. Methods of data collection included interviews, focus group discussions, observation, questionnaires and document review. A sample of 199 households living around the protected area were randomly and selected. The key informants were purposively selected. The findings indicated that strategies used in the area included : resource harvesting, problem animal management and land use planning, revenue sharing and sensitization. The local communities perceived resource harvesting, land use planning and problem animal management as the most effective strategies in managing the protected area. The community appreciated that some success had been recorded and these include among others ; reducing encroachment to the protected area and illegal resources harvesting, and improvement in park–community relationship. However, the problem animal management strategies had not performed well and therefore affecting sustainable wildlife management and tourism development in the area. This calls for reassessment of the strategy with the aim of strengthening community involvement in the management of the protected area. It was concluded that there a mix in the perception of the community around the protected area as far as collaborative management was concerned. Many believe that their level of participation is mainly passive though there is small level active involvement and participation. It was recommended that the participation of local communities need to be enhanced and the successful strategies should be strengthened and cascaded to other protected areas in the country and in Africa as a whole.
Collaborative methodology and sustainable wildlife management : a case of Semuliki National park, Western Uganda
(Kyambogo University(Unpublished work), 2021-09) Namulemo, Alice
The study was about collaborative methodology and maintainable wildlife management in Uganda. It is vital for all interested parties in wildlife management to work in mutual support to avoid the lessening of natural wealth in order to preserve the environment. The collaborative methodology and maintainable wildlife management are accepted as important because of the need to create trustful links amongst the wildlife managers and the neighboring societies. However, challenges of maintainable wildlife management recognize, among other things; poor government procedures and failure of collaborative protection. The objectives of the study were to find out the local communities’ contribution to cooperative strategies; to establish the local community level of awareness about cooperative strategies; and to examine the local communities’ perception about the cooperative strategies as far as maintainable wildlife management was concerned. The study engaged a cross sectional design. Data were assembled to judge whether the collaborative methodology could successfully maintain wildlife management in National Parks. Qualitative and computable investigation methods were used for the study. Questionnaires, focus group discussions and interview guides were used for data assembly. The interview guide was used to gather material from 200 household heads. Both content validity (0.7) and reliability at reliability value (0.84) were ascertained. A total of 200 questionnaires were administered and all were brought back. The returned questionnaires were entered using SPSS. Descriptive statistics specifically; frequencies and percentages were used to refer to the data from the questionnaires and to take a broad view of the discoveries. The outcomes displayed that it was key for the local community to contribute to cooperative strategies. In addition, the local community level of awareness about the cooperative strategies and the local community perceptions were vital in maintainable wildlife management. Lastly, the study concluded that the local communities’ contribution to cooperative strategies, their level of awareness and their perceptions about collaborative strategies were required to manage wildlife at a maintainable level. The study suggested that the park specialists should increase on the household heads’ contribution to sustaining Mauritius thorn hedges in order to increase partnership in the execution of maintainable wildlife management. Additional household heads needed to unite in planting chili as a substitute livelihood provider in order to stop elephants from confronting the community.