Girma-Eshete-Jenbere-thesis - Ethiopian Wolf Conservation ...

Chapter V: Conclusion and Recommendations
5.1. Conclusion
This study was designed to develop an understanding of the existing community management and
status of Mt. Abune Yoseph Afro-alpine ecosystem by taking Ethiopian wolf as a flagship species
of the ecosystem. Accordingly, efforts have been made to explore socio-economic and natural
resources assessment of the mountain for the improvement of user community livelihood, their
perception towards its management and its endemic wild (Ethiopian wolf) as well as tried to show
the human- livestock interference impact and the resulting conflict with wolf in the ecosystem.
The methods employed, which consist of socio-economic interview, ecologic survey and discussions
with key informants were useful in addressing the aims and leading to the following conclusions.
The results of this study clearly showed Mt. Abune Yoseph Afro-alpine ecosystem provide essential
ecosystem economic goods and services vitally important for the livelihoods of local communities
within the limit of sustainability. Due to this fact, majority of the local community had positive
perception towards the ecosystem and its flagship species the Ethiopian wolf. A good or positive
perception towards communal Afro-alpine ecosystem helps to protect or conserve its resources
from the increased human and livestock interference impact by designing sustainable ecosystem
management together with community which can avoid the existing human-wildlife conflict
particularly human-wolf conflict in the area.
Currently, tremendous pressure of the swelling human and livestock population expressed
through unsustainable resource exploitation from the ecosystem in the form of long time grazing,
frequent firewood collection and agricultural encroachment leads to erosion, gulley formation
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