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

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dc.creatorMashenene, Robert Galan
dc.creatorMawi, Frank
dc.date2019-06-27T09:37:55Z
dc.date2019-06-27T09:37:55Z
dc.date2019-03-21
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-20T08:35:17Z
dc.date.available2022-10-20T08:35:17Z
dc.descriptionWildlife 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
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dc.identifierhttp://dspace.cbe.ac.tz:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/288
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/79634
dc.languageen
dc.publisherCollege of Business Education
dc.relationVolume 112;
dc.subjectWildlife Management
dc.titleCommunity-Based Conservation Using Wildlife Management Area Model in the Ruvuma Landscape in Tanzania: Entrepreneurial Myth or Reality?
dc.typeArticle

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