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use (through tourism). The ethos of the programme is market-based, and partic-
ular incentives to change lifestyle are directed at known wildlife poachers. There is
also a strong development component through the targeting of help to food inse-
cure families, leading to market opportunities that encourage farmers to remain
committed to better farming practices, both for income and for food.
Source : www.itswild.org.
6.6 Resources
6.6.1 Websites
Community-based natural resource management links:
http://www.cbnrm.net/about/us/organisations.html
Online resources for NRM: http://www.frameweb.org/
Case studies in CBNRM: http://srdis.ciesin.columbia.edu/
COMACO, Zambia: http://www.itswild.org/
Namibia: http://www.met.gov.na/programmes/cbnrm/cbnrmHome.htm
Participatory video:
Insight: http://www.insightshare.org/
Maneno Mengi: http://www.maneno.net/pages/mmpv.html
Ecotourism:
The main industry organisation for ecotourism:
http://www.ecotourism.org/
UNEP ecotourism website, with useful links: http://www.uneptie.org/pc/tourism/ecotourism/
home.htm
Ecotourism practitioners' forum: http://www.planeta.com/
Pro-poor tourism: http://www.propoortourism.org.uk/
Overseas Development Institute: http://www.odi.org.uk/rpeg/tourismpubs.html
Other:
Cochrane, K., ed. (2002) A fishery manager's guidebook: Management measures and their
application. Food and Agriculture Organisation Technical Paper number 424. FAO, Rome.
ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/004/y3427e/y3427e00.pdf
Overseas Development Institute, Forestry Poverty and Environment Group: http://www.
odifpeg.org.uk/
Paul Ferraro's directory of conservation payments initiatives from around the world:
http://epp.gsu.edu/pferraro/special/special.htm
6.6.2 Textbooks
Caughley, G. and Gunn, A. (1996). Conservation Biology in Theory and Practice . Blackwell
Science, Oxford. Full of examples of diagnosis and action for conservation problems, taking a
biological and species-based approach.
 
 
 
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