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4 - The Conservationists Strike Back: “Community-Based” Wildlife Policy and the Politics of Structural Choice, 1983-1991

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2009

Clark C. Gibson
Affiliation:
Indiana University
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The project [LIRDP] has originally planned to become sustainable after five years, that means the middle of 1993. But experience is showing that this will not take place. … In the budget for 1992, the project's own income is estimated to cover 4% [of its budget].

Magne Hallaraaker, LIRDP Fourth Annual Meeting, December 11, 1991

The previous chapter demonstrated that political institutions provided incentives for politicians and civil servants in ‘Zambia to maintain a wildlife policy that advanced individuals’ political and economic goals, but failed to conserve animals. The political logic of an economically crippled one-party state thwarted those individuals and groups who wanted to augment wildlife policy in Zambia - President Kenneth Kaunda, the Zambian National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), international donors, and local conservationists.

These actors employed new strategies after 1982 to circumvent the impediments presented by members of the party and government. NPWS officers created the Administrative Management Design for Game Management Areas (ADMADE), a new program of “community-based” wildlife management primarily financed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). European conservationists, backed by President Kaunda, established the Luangwa Integrated Resource Development Project (LIRDP), a new public agency supported by the Norwegian Agency for International Development (NORAD).

Both LIRDP and ADMADE sought to conserve wild animals by incorporating rural residents in decisions over and benefits from wildlife resources.

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Politicians and Poachers
The Political Economy of Wildlife Policy in Africa
, pp. 83 - 116
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1999

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