CAMPFIRE - case study

Question 1

CAMPFIRE

Answer 1

• Founded in 1980’s Zimbabwe
• Area = 200,000m2
• Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Angola
• 800,000+ people benefit

Hard to manage:
- Inadequate water
- Wildfires
- Poaching - wildlife+ timber

Raising awareness:
- Encourages locals to make own decisions about management
- Helps manage natural resources
- Legal + sustainable ways for locals to make money
- Protect wildlife as it is valuable

Trophy hunting:
- 90% of CAMPFIRE income comes from trophy hunting
- Selling concessions (rights to hunt) to meet govt. quotas
- Manages populations of wildlife
- Foreign hunters pay high fees to shoot
- Elephant ($15k), buffalo, etc.
- Reduces poaching + creates jobs

Problems:
- US ban on import of animal trophies
- 70% reduction of incomes

Tonga people:
- Located near river Zambi
- Relocated when dam was constructed - 57,000 people forced to move
- Offered jobs as rangers or in managing the park

Positives:
- Reduced poaching
- Tourism into area
- Improved awareness around conservation
- Increased management
- Sustainable animal population levels
- Reduced pressures on ecosystem
- 80% of money raised goes to communities
- School building, health clinics, wells, fences, purchase crops + food