Making moves from conflict to coexistence
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The Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme aims to reconcile the challenges of wildlife conservation with food security and rural socio-economic development. To meet this objective, an innovative behaviour change approach is being developed to address human–wildlife conflict (HWC) and create a more balanced coexistence between people and wild animals. This holistic SWM Programme approach is based on an HWC mitigation framework that:
• takes into account the strong temporal and spatial dynamics of HWC in a landscape;
• considers the needs and expectations of affected people as well as the wild species with which they share the habitat;
• adopts a decision support system to select a suite of both short- and long-term intervention measures; and
• provides guidance on practical solutions to avoid and minimize risk, while reducing and offsetting the cost of coexisting with wildlife.
The SWM Programme is working in 15 countries, namely Botswana, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Gabon, Guyana, Madagascar, Mali, Namibia, Papua New Guinea, Republic of the Congo, Senegal, Sudan, Zambia and Zimbabwe. This approach is currently being tested in Gabon, Zambia and Zimbabwe.