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Community-Based Conservation Using Wildlife Management Area Model in the Ruvuma Landscape in Tanzania: Entrepreneurial Myth or Reality?

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dc.creator Mashenene, Robert Galan
dc.creator Mawi, Frank
dc.date 2019-09-24T04:30:47Z
dc.date 2019-09-24T04:30:47Z
dc.date 2019-03-21
dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-20T08:35:15Z
dc.date.available 2022-10-20T08:35:15Z
dc.identifier http://dspace.cbe.ac.tz:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/381
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/79580
dc.description Wildlife Management Area (WMA) is a wildlife conservation model in Tanzania involving local communities to manage the wildlife in village lands, operating as a business entity on a contract basis with investors for wildlife utilization and share the income with local communities. The objective of this study was to assess this economic anticipation through social surveys and secondary data. Revenue records of the WMAs showed only Mbarang’andu and Tunduru WMAs have been generating income since 2010 through trophy hunting summing up to Tshs. 1,525,479,981/= and Tshs. 148,811,000/= respectively since their establishment. The actual income was found to be significantly different from the projected income in the business plan for both Mbarang’andu WMA (p= 0.0076) and Tunduru WMA (p= 0.0097). WMA Regulations direct 15% expenditure of the gross in the development of the WMAs, but only Mbarang
dc.format application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
dc.language en
dc.publisher College of Business Education Journal
dc.title Community-Based Conservation Using Wildlife Management Area Model in the Ruvuma Landscape in Tanzania: Entrepreneurial Myth or Reality?
dc.type Article


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