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Dynamics and underlying causes of illegal bushmeat trade in Zimbabwe

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Lindsey, P. A., Romañach, S.S., Matema, S., Matema, C., Mupamhadzi, I., Muvengwi, J.·2011·Oryx
DOI 10.1017/s0030605310001274
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Abstract The prevalence and impacts of the illegal trade in bushmeat are under appreciated in Southern Africa, despite indications that it constitutes a serious conservation threat in parts of the region. Bushmeat trade has emerged as a severe threat to wildlife conservation and the viability of wildlife-based land uses in Zimbabwe during a period of political instability and severe economic decline. We conducted a study around Savé Valley Conservancy in the South-East Lowveld of Zimbabwe to investigate the dynamics and underlying causes of the bushmeat trade, with the objective of developing solutions. We found that bushmeat hunting is conducted mainly by unemployed young men to generate cash income, used mostly to purchase food. Bushmeat is mainly sold to people with cash incomes in adjacent communal lands and population centres and is popular by virtue of its affordability and availability. Key drivers of the bushmeat trade in the South-East Lowveld include: poverty, unemployment and food shortages, settlement of wildlife areas by impoverished communities that provided open access to wildlife resources, failure to provide stakes for communities in wildlife-based land uses, absence of affordable protein sources other than illegally sourced bushmeat, inadequate investment in anti-poaching in areas remaining under wildlife management, and weak penal systems that do not provide sufficient deterrents to illegal bushmeat hunters. Each of these underlying causes needs to be addressed for the bushmeat trade to be tackled effectively. However, in the absence of political and economic stability, controlling illegal bushmeat hunting will remain extremely difficult and the future of wildlife-based land uses will remain bleak.

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  • The extremely high levels of poaching in SVC were the result of a large human population being settled on private land with large wildlife populations, and were exacerbated by Zimbabwe's economic crisis and food shortages arising from the FTLRP.

    “The extremely high levels of poaching in SVC were the result of a large human population being settled on private land with large wildlife populations, and were exacerbated by Zimbabwe’s economic crisis and food shortages arising from the FTLRP (Knapp, 2012; Lindsey et al., 2011a; Moss, 2007)”

    From The impact of land reform on the status of large carnivores in Zimbabwe (2016) · cites this paper as Lindsey et al., 2011a

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Authors
Lindsey, P. A., Romañach, S. S., Matema, S., Matema, C., Mupamhadzi, I., & Muvengwi, J.
Affiliations
  • University of Pretoria (ZA)
  • University of Zimbabwe (ZW)
  • Bindura University of Science Education (ZW)
Corresponding author
Lindsey, P. A.
ORCID
Venue
Oryx
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2011-01
Volume
45
Issue
1
Pages
84-95
ISSN
  • 0030-6053 (ISSN-L)
  • 1365-3008
DOI
10.1017/s0030605310001274
OpenAlex
W2167268201
Cited by
111
References
36
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 4
FWCI
5.85
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Oryx (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • UpSpace Institutional Repository (University of Pretoria) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • European Commission
  • Bundesministerium für Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
Keywords
bushmeat hunting, poverty, unemployment, food shortages, common land, anti-poaching, wildlife management, political instability, economic decline, Zimbabwe

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