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False promise or false premise? Using tourism revenue sharing to promote conservation and poverty reduction in Uganda
Tourism and the sharing of the associated revenues with local people have been increasingly fronted as key
instruments for maintaining protected areas (PAs) globally. This paper focuses on a tourism revenue sharing ...
Breaking the law? Illegal livelihoods from a protected area in Uganda
Forests are important to local livelihoods and regulating access to forests will have consequences to those
livelihoods and may promote illegal harvesting. This study analyses how local people make a living, focusing
on ...
A local counter-narrative on the conservation of Mountain Gorillas
Using social science narrative analysis, we studied how people who live next to
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Bwindi INP) in Uganda narrate about their
situation. We found a dominant ambivalence narrative, which ...
Conservation and development: Justice, inequality, and attitudes around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Do national parks promote development in their immediate surroundings? And is local development
instrumental in the success of conservation goals? We investigated allocation of opportunities and burdens
around a national ...
Wildlife damage and control methods around Lake Mburo National Park, Uganda
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)
This study documents the different management and control measures developed and implemented by farmers to mitigate vertebrate pest attacks on crops and livestock around Lake Mburo National Park in Uganda. A semi-structured ...
Can biodiversity conservation benefit local people? Costs and benefits at a strict protected Area in Uganda
This article examines the livelihoods and experiences of local people
after two decades of living close to a strict protected area
(PA). A total of 290 local PA neighbors and 60 key informants
were interviewed. Findings ...
Impact of collaborative forest management on forest status and local perceptions of contribution to livelihoods in Uganda
This study assessed the impacts of Collaborative Forest Management (CFM) initiatives on forest status of
Budongo Forest reserve in Uganda and perceptions of the participating communities on the contribution of CFM
towards ...
Understanding sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekii) habitats through diet analysis in Rushebeya-Kanyabaha wetland, Uganda
Between January and December 2008, we assessed the diet
and habitat selection of sitatunga, a highly endangered
tropical wetland antelope threatened by habitat loss in
Rushebeya-Kanyabaha wetland. Microhistological ...
Contribution of wetland resources to household food security in Uganda
Background: In Uganda, nearly 1.4 million people are currently food insecure, with the prevalence of food energy
deficiency at the country level standing at 37%. Local farmers are vulnerable to starvation in times of ...
Decentralisation of forest management — Is it a panacea to challenges in forest governance in Uganda?
Decentralisation of forest management is currently implemented in many countries
in Africa, Asia and Latin America as a governance strategy aimed at enhancing for‐
est resource conservation, poverty alleviation and equity ...