Village

Previous Experience

Chitita

1) Village leaders and their communities voluntarily helping to put off wildfires; 2) Incentives to the community by researchers working within communal areas from the SWA; 3) Maintenance of Park boundary fence by fence minders; 4) Meat rations shared equally among villages duringelephant culling periods from 1988-1991; 5) Veterinary services offered to local farmers by researchers from international universities freely during experimental researches; 6) Free access to clean water from Kove River. 7) Boundary fence constantly maintained by Veterinary Department.

Muchoni

1) Park scouts only operating within the confines of the SWA; 2) Elephant meat distributed to communities during culling years (1988-1991); 3) Problem Animal Reporters selected from frontline communities and were rewarded; 4) Funds from CAMPFIRE received and developments with support from SWRI offered such as maintenance of fence and Lutope River crossing.

Siamwanja

1) Elephant culling benefits to immediate communities; 2) Employment of locals in various areas such as skinners, general hands and cleaners; 3) Maintenance of transects roads was done by locals in exchange for money and other incentives; 4) Clear line of demarcation between parks and communities with secured electric fence installed; 5) Food staffs from local clients and researchers donated to less privileged households; 6) Quick response toproblem animals sighted in communal areas.

Gava

1) Access to telephone line by communities in case of emergency; 2) Free transport offered to communities to cotton Depots; 3) Domestic water access from Sengwa gorge; 4) Free game viewing during holidays for pupils; 5) Social entertainment provided to local adjacent communities supported by the SWRI during national functions; 6) Good community park understandings and agreements at local levels were in place; 7) Domestic livestock cross to Munanai for pasture without being impounded; 8) Capacity building to locals on ways to controlling problem animals.