The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has developed a sustainable wildlife management program with its partners.
This program was designed to help rural communities meet the challenges of human-wildlife conflict such as the raiding of crops by elephants or the loss of livestock to carnivorous predators.
“I want to preserve our natural resources from exploitation and reduce human-wildlife conflicts. How? By educating the community, to learn to live with their animals, to live with their trees…” said Chipo Munsaka, Resource Controller, Wildlife Patrol Team, Mucheni, Zimbabwe.
In Zimbabwe, this program is implemented in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area and encourages women and girls to participate as much as men in community conservation management and food security.
In tropical and subtropical regions, where overhunting of wild meat threatens the extinction of hundreds of wildlife species, community management is also essential.