WILDLIFE

From its early history, ADMADE has encouraged local skills to manage, police and monitor  wildlife and natural resources.  The College has facilitated this process with various ways that appropriate management and technical skills can be adapted to rural communities.  Below is a set of data examples, all derived from information collected by village scouts and used by community resource managers.
Scout sightings of important events while on a patrol are referenced to map grids and entered on this dataform. Village scouts have proved highly reliable, cost-effective, and enthusiastic performers of important resource management tasks, including law enfrocement, public educatoin, crop damage control, and resource use monitoring. On this dataform, the recorder summarizes all details on a patrol to allow the Unit Manager and other community leaders to assess scout effort and results.
Map-linked dataform Village Scouts on patrol Patrol details dataform
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Map result that summarizes total times village scouts visited grids while on patrol for a given year

Summarizes total times a given species was sighted by village scouts during annual patrols

Summarizes number of times scouts encountered poachers while on patrol

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The College has a long-term vision for community skills in resource management.  Regardless of the commonly-held perception that rural communities are too handicapped by lack of formal education to be effective resource managers, the College is slowly disproving this belief with its continued training programs.  Compelling examples are now emerging that illustrate how communities, who see economic incentives to manage and protect their wildlife, can also be motivated to learn and apply the skills needed to produce wildlife for continued economic opportunities from this resource.

Recent results at a glance...

Wildlife numbers:
ZAWA receives regular requests from communities to introduce CBNRM and help restore wildlife on their land.
Where livelihood skills are introduced and lowering risks of food shortages and where community-led management of village scouts are maintaining regular patrol efforts, independent survey results show increases in wildlife numbers.
Impact on wildlife:
Local manpower--over 450 village scouts paid from community shares, 100's more assisting voluntarily at no direct cost to the government
over 500 illegal firearms surrendered voluntarily by community residents in 1999 alone!
Public Education--to support conservation provided by community members themselves
Community shares used to support administration of wildlife management headquarters, quota setting, data collecting, community meeting, etc.
 

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