Title: Private reserves: the conservation corporation Africa model.
Abstract: The Conservation Corporation Africa (CCA) model attempts to address threats to Africa's land and wildlife resources from burgeoning populations and reduced budgets. CCA recognizes that much of Africa's wildlife heritage and real estate is influenced or owned by local communities. Maintenance of biodiversity is crucial to Africa's local economies, and local economic development is crucial to the maintenance of its biodiversity. The CCA model is to link international tourists to these communities, taking a commercial approach to conservation. The approach relies on partnerships between: (i) the private sector; (ii) the local community; and (iii) the state conservation agency. It aims to adopt best-value use for any given area, which is not always the current use. Africa has large tracts of fallow land, far from infrastructure and water. It also has communal land neighbouring some of the world's great parks, currently used for subsistence agriculture. It is shown that, in marginal-rainfall areas of Africa, the best form of land use is conservation. Cattle farming produces R150 (US$16) per ha annually, gross. Conservation on the same land is currently producing R1500 (US$160) per ha per annum. Where cattle farming employed 60 people, wildlife conservation and tourism employs 300 on the same area of land. In some areas Africa's current poverty cycle need not continue if commercial conservation land use is practised.
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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