Empowering Communities for Sustainable Natural Resource Use ...

44 Natural Resource Use and Management: The Albertine Rift Region
Pepper dung
Elephant dung is mixed with ground chilies, compacted into a brick
mould, and then dried in the sun. These bricks are burned in fires
along the field boundaries to create a noxious smoke that lasts for
3-4 hours and the smoke keeps away wildlife from raiding the fields
and attacking communities. The materials used are elephant dung,
dried chilies, and mould.
Other problem animal control methods
• Crocodiles: Crocodile barriers, in form of a cage near
water bodies where communities can safely collect water.
• Baboons (vermin): Good hygiene and proper disposal of
waste food.
• Hippos: Awareness on how a hippo responds when it sees
a person, and how to respond to the hippo’s behavior. The
hippo normally stops 2 to 3 times (warning signals) when
it sees a person in its way.
Note
Due to scarcity of documented problem animal behaviour, a detailed
discussion on animal behaviour should be held with the participants
and documented thereafter. A Community Based Problem Animal
control (CBPAC) self-assessment form is appended (Appendix I).
Appropriate harvesting of resources from protected areas
The Community Conservation Policy (CCP) of 2004 provides for
negotiations between UWA and local communities in regard to
access to wildlife resources within and outside Protected Areas (PAs).
One of the objectives of the CCP is to promote regulated utilisation
of wildlife resources within and outside protected areas so as to
contribute to conservation and poverty eradication programmes.
Some of the resources local communities can have access to include:
• Fire wood.
• Grass.