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Deforestation Around the World
Government – GoB - Government of Belize, For - Forestry Department, Fish - Fishery Department,
PACT Coman - Protected Areas Conservation Trust co-management grant, Cmpol – Co-management
policy, Eco Con - Ecotourism Conference,
NGOs – CC – Community Conservation, BAS - Belize Audubon Society, Inuit Conf-Inuit Conference, Sat -
SATIIM, Tast - Taste, Tid - TIDE,
CBOs/PAs - Ag – Aguacaliente Wildlife Sanctuary, BB – Billy Barquedier, BC - Bacalar Chico, CB –
Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, CBS – Community Baboon Sanctuary, Cc – Cay Caulker, CHS –
Community Hickatee Sanctuary, FC – Freshwater Creek Forest Reserve, 5B – 5 Blues Lake National
Park, GG – Gra Gra Lagoon, GP – Gales Point, GS – Gladen Spit, MB - Mayflower Bocwina National
Park, MR –Monkey River, NK -- Noj Kaax Meen Eligio Panti National Park, PC - Paynes Creek, RB - Rio
Blanco National Park, SaC - Sapadilla Cayes, SwC – Swallow Cay, SlC- Slate Creek, SpC - Spanish Creek
Wildlife Sanctuary, ST- Sea Turtle Project, S-T – Sarstoon-Temash National Park.
Fig. 2. Network connections of Community Conservation and their relationships with
community-based organizations and Protected Areas, non-governmental organizations and
government organizations.
4.2 Namibia
In the early 1980s in northern Namibia, wildlife was severely depleted by poaching (Hoole,
2010). At the same time that the Community Baboon Sanctuary was developed in Belize, a
non-governmental organization in Namibia, the Namibian Wildlife Trust, appointed Garth
Owen-Smith, a former government game ranger, to respond to the poaching crisis in the
northern area of the country by collaborating with village headmen who shared concern for
the loss of wildlife (Hoole, 2010; Jones, 2001). Using village contacts from his prior career,
Owen-Smith began to establish relationships with local headmen. Working with the
government conservator, Chris Eyre and in cooperation with village leaders, Owen-Smith