Non consumption use

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Summary

Activities such as animal watching, photographing, bird watching, walking in the wilderness, a walking safari, angling, canoeing and boating, can be conducted in a tourist block, which can be located in protected areas, such as National parks or Community partnership parks,  or in Game Management Areas (GMAs). The DNPW regulates non-consumptive tourism operations and in partnership with local communities, grant concessions to non-consumptive tourism operators in Game Management Areas in GMAs, and grants tourism block concessions in tourism blocks. A person holding a tourism enterprise licence can be issued a photographic tour operator’s permit. CRBs can negotiate, in conjunction with the Department, co-management agreements with photographic tour operators. According to the National Parks and Wildlife Policy, some of the challenges that need to be addressed in the wildlife sector are: inadequate funding from the central treasury for wildlife conservation; inadequate incentives for the conservation of wildlife on customary lands vis-à-vis lack of security of tenure;  the inability to adequately access and benefit from wildlife resources; and weak sectoral linkages and coordination with other sector policies that have both direct and indirect bearing on the wildlife and tourism sector.

WILDLIFE CONSERVATION (ECOTOURISM)

INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK RELEVANT TO WILDLIFE CONSERVATION (ECOTOURISM)