GENERAL INFORMATION
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Conservancies are the institutional mechanism created under MET legislation to devolve rights and responsibilities to communal and commercial landholders and to manage wildlife and other natural resources for their long-term benefit. The initiative seeks to promote social empowerment, improved livelihoods at the household level, rural development, biodiversity conservation and ecological sustainability. Considerable progress has been made by communal conservancies and their support organisations (NGOs and MET) to establish effective wildlife protection, monitoring and management practices. By the end of 2002, 15 conservancies had been registered, and some 35 more were in the process of being formed. Similar situations exist in neighbouring countries, e.g. in Botswana, with National Parks and Forestry areas, Community initiatives in the Chobe enclave region, Wildlife Areas under concessions, and community lands. |
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