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Co-management of conservation areas offers multiple benefits mongabay.com December 1, 2008
The Serengeti (Tanzania, East Africa)—one of the flagship conservation areas of the world—is a case in point and the focus of a new paper published in the December issue of Tropical Conservation Science by Jafari R Kideghesho and Paul E Mtoni. The authors argue that conservation in the Serengeti needs to be approached as co-management involving sharing of power, responsibilities, and rights and duties between the government and local resource users. They advocate for intensive community involvement and reactivation of local traditional institutions in co-management approaches. The authors feel that raising awareness, educating about the legal aspects of conservation, and giving local communities autonomy over conservation decisions will yield positive attitudes among the people toward conservation. They also suggest that this should be paralleled by government bureaucracies becoming more sensitive to community approaches to conservation and good governance. Kideghesho, J. R. and Mtoni, P. E. 2008. The potentials for co-management approaches in western Serengeti, Tanzania. Tropical Conservation Science Vol.1 (4):334-358
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