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Community Wildlife Management Areas Are Successfully Conserving Wildlife in Tanzania

Village Game Scouts and Leadership of Burunge Wildlife Management Area. These rangers protect the wildlife and other natural resources within the community-based natural resource management zone.
·         A new study found community-based wildlife conservation in Tanzania can quickly result in clear ecological success by benefitting giraffes and other wildlife species.
Arusha, TANZANIA, 10 August 2018-
Community-based natural resource management is a grassroots conservation tool that has become one of the dominant paradigms of natural resource conservation worldwide. In Tanzania, efforts to decentralize wildlife management to local communities occur through the creation of Wildlife Management Areas, where several villages set aside land for wildlife


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