Policies to reduce local participation in illegal hunting: The case of Kafue National Park in Zambia
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Policies to reduce local participation in illegal hunting : The case of Kafue National Park in Zambia. / Mutti, Shadreck Mukanjo; Jourdain, Damien; Karuaihe, Selma Tuemumunu; Lundhede, Thomas Hedemark; Mungatana, Eric Dada.
In: Ecological Economics, Vol. 207, 107762, 2023.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Policies to reduce local participation in illegal hunting
T2 - The case of Kafue National Park in Zambia
AU - Mutti, Shadreck Mukanjo
AU - Jourdain, Damien
AU - Karuaihe, Selma Tuemumunu
AU - Lundhede, Thomas Hedemark
AU - Mungatana, Eric Dada
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Using data collected from 217 respondents living near the Kafue National Park in Zambia, we assess how households value alternative policy interventions aimed at minimizing poaching. Building on the current debate on community-based wildlife conservation policy, we presented households with different combinations of agro-inputs packs donation, access to a micro-credit facility and donation of dairy cows for milking. These were proposed as alternative policy interventions to compliment the traditional command and control policy framework, implemented through a rise in frequency of game patrols and increase in minimum jail sentences for poaching offenses. We use a discrete choice experiment to estimate policy preferences and potential trade-offs between poaching and proposed alternative policy instruments. Our findings show that increase in each of the proposed interventions could significantly contribute to the well-being of respondents, potentially reducing the number of hunting trips a poacher would make per month. Similarly, a rise in the deterrent interventions have significant, but weak effect on respondents' choice to poach. The above carrot and stick instruments could be deferentially applied based on cost and effectiveness of each combination to achieve desired goals.
AB - Using data collected from 217 respondents living near the Kafue National Park in Zambia, we assess how households value alternative policy interventions aimed at minimizing poaching. Building on the current debate on community-based wildlife conservation policy, we presented households with different combinations of agro-inputs packs donation, access to a micro-credit facility and donation of dairy cows for milking. These were proposed as alternative policy interventions to compliment the traditional command and control policy framework, implemented through a rise in frequency of game patrols and increase in minimum jail sentences for poaching offenses. We use a discrete choice experiment to estimate policy preferences and potential trade-offs between poaching and proposed alternative policy instruments. Our findings show that increase in each of the proposed interventions could significantly contribute to the well-being of respondents, potentially reducing the number of hunting trips a poacher would make per month. Similarly, a rise in the deterrent interventions have significant, but weak effect on respondents' choice to poach. The above carrot and stick instruments could be deferentially applied based on cost and effectiveness of each combination to achieve desired goals.
KW - Alternative policy approaches
KW - Choice experiment
KW - Community-based wildlife conservation
KW - Kafue National Park
KW - Poaching
KW - Zambia
U2 - 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2023.107762
DO - 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2023.107762
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85147883502
VL - 207
JO - Ecological Economics
JF - Ecological Economics
SN - 0921-8009
M1 - 107762
ER -
ID: 341260639