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Governance systems are under threat in many wildlife sanctuaries of the
World today, and that centralized wildlife governance systems have
not helped to arrest the irretrievable loses of biodiversity in
Southern Africa. Community based wildlife management has been
experimented in many settings as an alternative to bureaucratic
governance of natural resources in Africa and around the World. This
paper analyses Zambia’s experience with community-based wildlife
management. We find no evidence of significant impact of community
wildlife management on local behavior, community welfare and
wildlife conservation in the blue lagoon game management area. We
urge that measures that strengthen community wildlife governance
systems, and public governance in general, will have a greater
impact on community development and wildlife conservation in
Southern Africa and Zambia in particular.
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