Title:

 

The Fallacy of Sustainable Consumptive Utilization of Wildlife in Africa.

Abstract:

While the proponents of consumptive utilization of wildlife argue that it provides an incentive to poor countries to conserve their wildlife, a May 2002 report by The Maasai Environmental Resource Coalition on the hunting operations of Ortello Business Company in Tanzania had the following to say;

"The voices of the Loliondo Maasai echo those of other indigenous communities across the country, whose complaints about mistreatment and overexploitation of their natural resource by profit-driven hunting companies have continued to go unheeded. Like the Loliondo Masai, Tarangire, Oloonkiito, and Mkomanzi Maasai say the Government-sanctioned, unregulated hunting operations have detrimentally affected their basic rights, environment and wildlife."

In addressing the community point of view and in seeking to answer the pertinent question of the sustainability of consumptive utilization of wildlife in Africa, the presentation uses field research findings, information and powerful photos linked with:

• the Youth for Conservation's 7-year hands-on conservation work with local communities in and around Kenya's Parks and Reserves
• the Maasai Environmental Resource Coalition report on the Hunting Operations of the Ortello Business Company in Tanzania and
• Traffic's "Food for Thought" - Research on Illegal Bushmeat Trade in East, Central and Southern Africa.
• Cropping Evaluation report of 2001, commissioned by Kenya Wildlife Service and sponsored by USAID

The presentation also seeks to explain the link between consumptive wildlife utilization and the rampant illegal bush meat trade in West, Central, East and Southern Africa while at the same time showing the impacts of consumptive utilization in countries that practiced it.

It is an arguable fact that conservation programs that alienate the involvement of local communities are doomed to failure, the presentation therefore recommends practical win-win community-based conservation strategies with incentives given to landowners and local communities to protect and preserve wildlife on their land.

About the Presenter

The presenter - Josphat Ngonyo - Born in a family who were poachers but turned into ardent conservationists, has a lifetime of conservation experience. He is the founder and director of Youth for Conservation. He is also the founder of Moi University Wildlife Club. He was the first to organize formal youth desnaring patrols in and around Kenya's Protected and Unprotected areas, as a tool to combat the rampant snaring for bush meat trade. He won the Eastern Africa Environmental Network's Environmental Leadership Award 2003. He holds a Bachelor degree in Social Sciences and a Diploma in the Management of Not for Profit Organizations.

----- Original Message -----

From: Emerald Animals

To: jos@...

Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 8:24 PM

Subject: Re: FWD: Re: Nigeria: NOTICE FOR CONFERENCE ON ANIMALS, December 1-4, 2005

Thank you very much sir for your interest in this our conference. I will be most honoured to have you around.

 

Please when you do return to Kenya, You can send in your abstract sir. Time is running so fast. We are looking at sending out the second to the last Circular by the end of October and the final Circular by the middle of November.

 

It is a pioneer effort and your presence even to share expereinces of that part of your country where wildlife conservation is taken seriously will be greatly appreciated.

 

We look forward to welcoming you.

 

Thank you again and Thanks to Animal People.

Josphat Ngonyo <jos@...> wrote:

The Coordinator
Emerald Animals

My name is Josphat Ngonyo - the Founder/Director of Youth for Conservation in Kenya. I received information about your conference from Animal People (as below) and Iam keen to attend and make a presentation. I am however right now in the United States and can only send my abstract when I get back to Kenya in the first week of October. I therefore kindly request for an extention of the deadline for me in this regard. My presentation topic will be:

THE FALLACY OF SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTIVE UTILISATION OF WILDLIFE IN AFRICA. (focussing on sport hunting and the bushmeat crisis).

I indeed laud you for this wonderful initiative. Please keep it up. Africa needs such conferences.

Looking forward to our further communication and a successful 1st National Conference on Animals in Nigeria.

Warm regards,

Jos
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>From: Kim Bartlett
>Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:25:34 -0700
>
>>Envelope-to: ANPEOPLE@...
>>Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 17:36:25 +0100 (BST)
>>From: Emerald Animals
>>Subject: Re: NOTICE FOR CONFERENCE ON ANIMALS
>>To: Kim Bartlett
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>1ST NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ANIMALS, LAGOS, NIGERIA
>> DECEMBER 1 - 4 2005
>> WILLY HOTELS, MARYLAND
>> [Convoked be
>>Emerald Animals]
>>
>>PROGRAM
>>
>> The 1st National Conference on Animals will open with registration
>>from 11am on Thursday December 1st and an introductory session by
>>7pm. Formal sessions will begin by 8.00am on Friday December 2nd and
>>close at 6pm. Activities on Saturday December 3rd will include
>>visitation to media houses and excursions. The conference banquet
>>will take place on that same evening. Departure will be by Sunday
>>morning latest 12pm.
>>
>>DAY ONE - Thursday December 1st
>>Registration and Introductory session
>>We will set a vision for the future of animal advocacy in Nigeria,
>>celebrate successes and draw upon the experiences of various animal
>>advocacy movements.
>>
>>Keynote sessions will include:
>>The State of the Animals: Companion Animals, Farm Animals, Animals in
>>Research, Wildlife, Animals in Entertainment..... Where have we been,
>>where are we now and where are we going?
>>Case Studies of Successful Campaigns: Various groups will share their
>>experience.....What worked and what can we learn?
>>
>>DAY TWO - Friday December 2nd
>>Formal sessions
>>The second day will focus on a series of lectures and workshops.
>>Various speakers will address the following sessions:
>>1. Fundamentals of Animal Welfare and Advocacy.
>>2. Humane Management and Responsible Ownership of Animals.
>>3. The rights of Animals: Identification and Legislation.
>>4. Managing a Zoonosis: Economic and Health Implications.
>>
>>DAY Three - Saturday December 3rd
>>Excursion, Visitations and Banquet
>>
>>Places to which excursion will be made is still being worked on and
>>the media houses to visit. More details will be made known in
>>subsequent circulars.
>>
>>Details for the Banquet will also be made later.
>>
>>DAY Three - Saturday December 3rd
>>Departure
>>
>>
>>CONFERENCE DETAILS
>>
>>Conference Date: December 1- 4, 2005
>>
>>Conference Venue:
>>The conference venue is Willy Hotels. 5 Akinwunmi Street, Mende,
>>Maryland, Lagos for easy accessibility to participants.
>>
>>Accommodation:
>>The conference will be non-resident. Thus, no accommodation will be
>>reserved for any participant. Those coming from outside Lagos or
>>outside Nigeria or those who may so wish can however have the
>>conference secretariat make reservations for them at the conference
>>venue. The procedure is for you to send the cost for the 1st night
>>booking for the reservation and then continue to make subsequent
>>payments yourself. Cost of these is #6,000 per night.
> >
>>Transport Refund:
>>There would be no transport refund for participants.
>>
>>Registration Fee:
>>Registration for the conference is free.
>>
>>Feeding:
>>Participants are to make their own arrangements.
>>
>>
>>Conference Topics:
>>We have received notification from some participants to give
>>lectures, however any person or group that are still interested to
>>give a lecture still has time to notify the conference secretariat.
>>
>>
>>Call for Abstracts:
>>Those making presentations are required to submit Abstracts, no later
>>October 1, 2005. This is to aid us in our planning.
>>
>>List of Participants:
>>We have received various registration and notification of persons to
>>attend the conference, we want to appeal however that you kindly send
>>us your full name, phone number and e-mail address. A list of
>>participants will be included in the nest circular.
>>
>>
>>Invitation for Attendance:
>>We would be glad to greet any other person or group who
>>would like to join us.
>>
>>
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>>
>


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applies to animals, too. We don't accept the prevailing notion
that "people come first'" or that "people are more important than
animals." Animals feel pain and suffer just as we do, and it is
almost always humans making animals suffer and not the other way
around. Yet in spite of how cruelly people behave towards animals
-- not to mention human cruelty to other humans -- we are supposed to
believe that humans are superior to other animals. If people want
to fancy themselves as being of greater moral worth than the other
creatures on this earth, we should begin behaving better than they
do, and not worse. Let's start treating everyone as we would like
to be treated ourselves.

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