SWM : Sustainable Wildlife Management
Project start date:
01/01/2017Project end date:
31/12/2024Objectives
Global objective
To contribute to wildlife conservation, as well as ecosystems and the services they provide, as well as to improve the livelihoods an food security of local communities that depend of these resources in ACP countries.
Specific objectives
The sustainable and legal use of wildlife populations by local rural stakeholders in key landscapes for conservation and the diversification of the alternative protein supply from domestic animals for rural and urban populations, reconciliating food security and wildlife conservation in ACP countries.
To reach this ambitious but feasible objective, SWM has to secure the rights and increase the management capacity of local populations depending for their livelihoods, food security and traditions on direct wildlife consumption. The programme will also needs to help local populations to shift from wild meat to other forms of animal and vegetal proteins in a context of increcasing global (and African) human populations.
The SWM programme will have several sites in and out of Africa. In southern Africa, the site will be within the KAZA TFCA and will focus on Zimbabwe and Zambia.
Description
The global Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme, funded by the EU as an initiative of the African Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP), was launched in Rome, Italy, October 2017. The programme is designed to reduce hunting of wildlife to sustainable levels, protecting endangered wildlife species, conserving biodiversity, maintaining the essential ecological roles of wildlife within forested and savanna ecosystems, and securing stocks and flows of provisioning ecosystem services (i.e. food) essential to some of the poorest and most politically marginalized human populations. The programme will be implemented in eight sites in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific by FAO, in partnership with CIRAD, CIFOR and WCS. One of the eight sites will be located in KAZA (Zambia and Zimbabwe), looking at the potential of community commercial conservancies under high population density to try to halt unsustainable wildlife hunting, conserve their natural heritage and strengthen people's livelihoods and food security. The goal will be biodiversity management and looking at sustainable management of wildlife and fisheries resources in selected sites.
In a range of key socio-ecosystems (forest and savanna) the SWM project will i) promote sustainable and legal use of resilient wildlife populations by local rural populations and to ii) increase/diversify protein production for local and urban populations.
Partners
The Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
The French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD)
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)
Fundings
European Union 45 millions €