Assessing community perceptions about the contributions and impacts of Wildlife tourism to rural livelihoods: Wildlife management areas perspective

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dc.contributor.authorMgonja, J.T.
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-23T10:24:17Z
dc.date.available2023-03-23T10:24:17Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.descriptionJournal Articleen_US
dc.description.abstractWildlife Management Areas (WMAs) refer to protected areas in a village land, set aside for conservation of wildlife and tourism activities. Existing studies on WMAs have focused more on the establishment, governance and conservation consequences of WMAs. Relatively few studies have been conducted on the contributions of wildlife tourism from WMAs perspectives to rural livelihoods in Tanzania. The objective of this study was to assess community perceptions about the contributions of wildlife tourism and conservation to livelihoods of communities residing in WMA, using Ikona and Makao WMAs as a case study. Crosstabs analysis using Chi-square ( 2 ) was applied to analyse data collected using questionnaires. Overall, the findings indicate that most people (74.1%) are proud of their villages being in WMA, (59.8%) are aware of tourism activities in their WMA, (71.5%) accept wildlife conservation and (33.6%) agree that WMA increases livelihood options. Overall, the findings indicate that wildlife tourism contributes to local peoples’ livelihoods at a community level but not at a household level. The study recommends WMA authorities to integrate local communities at a household level in all facets of wildlife tourism in WMAs so as to enhance the contribution of WMAs and wildlife tourism to sustainable livelihoods.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/5082
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTanzania Journal of Forestry and Nature Conservationen_US
dc.subjectCommunity Perceptionsen_US
dc.subjectConservationen_US
dc.subjectIkonaen_US
dc.subjectLivelihoodsen_US
dc.subjectMakaoen_US
dc.subjectTanzaniaen_US
dc.subjectWildlife Management Areas (WMA)en_US
dc.subjectWildlife Tourism.en_US
dc.titleAssessing community perceptions about the contributions and impacts of Wildlife tourism to rural livelihoods: Wildlife management areas perspectiveen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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