Evaluating the prospects of benefit sharing schemes in protecting mountain gorillas in Central Africa

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dc.creatorMukanjari, Samson
dc.creatorBirgit, Bednar-Friedl
dc.creatorMuchapondwa, Edwin
dc.creatorZikhali, Precious
dc.date2014-06-27T08:25:40Z
dc.date2014-06-27T08:25:40Z
dc.date2013
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-28T10:06:42Z
dc.date.available2015-05-28T10:06:42Z
dc.date.issued2015-05-28
dc.descriptionPresently, the mountain gorilla in Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo is endangered mainly by poaching and habitat loss. This paper sets out to investigate the possible resolution of poaching involving the local community by using benefit sharing schemes with local communities. Using a bioeconomic model, the paper demonstrates that the current revenue sharing scheme yields suboptimal conservation outcomes. It is, however, shown that a performance-linked benefit sharing scheme in which the Park Agency makes payment to the local community based on the growth of the gorilla stock can achieve socially optimal conservation. This scheme renders poaching effort by the local community, and therefore poaching fines and antipoaching enforcement toward the local community unnecessary. Given the huge financial outlay requirements for the ideal benefit sharing scheme, the Park Agencies in central Africa could reap more financial benefits for use in conservation if they employ an oligopolistic pricing strategy for gorilla tourism.
dc.identifierMukanjari‚ S.‚ Bednar-Friedl, B., Muchapondwa‚ E. & Zikhali, P. (2013). Evaluating the prospects of benefit sharing schemes in protecting mountain gorillas in Central Africa, Natural Resource Modelling, 26(4): 455-479
dc.identifierhttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nrm.12010/abstract
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11090/745
dc.identifier.ris TY - Journal Article DA - 2015-05-28 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Mountain gorillas KW - Poaching KW - Benefit sharing KW - Bioeconomic model KW - Conservation KW - Performance payment LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 T1 - Evaluating the prospects of benefit sharing schemes in protecting mountain gorillas in Central Africa TI - Evaluating the prospects of benefit sharing schemes in protecting mountain gorillas in Central Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11090/745 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11090/745
dc.languageen
dc.publisherNatural Resource Modelling
dc.publisher.departmentSALDRUen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Commerceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subjectMountain gorillas
dc.subjectPoaching
dc.subjectBenefit sharing
dc.subjectBioeconomic model
dc.subjectConservation
dc.subjectPerformance payment
dc.titleEvaluating the prospects of benefit sharing schemes in protecting mountain gorillas in Central Africa
dc.typeJournal Article
uct.type.publicationResearchen_ZA
uct.type.resourceArticleen_ZA
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