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An Assessment of Policies and Strategies for Sport Hunting in Southern Africa
IUCN - The World Conservation Union - Regional Office for Southern Africa (ROSA)
October 05, 2002

IUCN’S Networking and Capacity Building programme (NETCAB) recently completed a project on sport hunting aimed at making a comprehensive assessment of polices and management strategies in five major sport hunting destinations in the SADC region. The project, which was implemented in partnership with TRAFFIC Eastern and Southern Africa (an IUCN member), attracted such countries as Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Tanzania.

The origins of the project underscored the need to look into key management issues such as monitoring and administration, quota setting, hunt packaging, fee structure and marketing as well as sport hunting and CBNRM programmes. Development and implementation of simple and practical management plans for endangered, endemic and exotic species as well as protected areas were identified as models of best practices in the maintenance of biodiversity in southern Africa.

The assessment has shown that the sport hunting industry faces many challenges, such as the recent bans, the withdrawal of predator quotas, possible transference of management structures to community-based institutions, as well as land tenure issues.

Sport hunting provides approximately 90% of financial benefits that accrue to communities in Community Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) programs in the region.

The results of this assessment will be useful for other southern African countries like Mozambique, which are still to develop their sport hunting policy.

For more information on the assessment, contact the NETCAB Programme Manager at IUCN ROSA.

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