Improving Sustainability in Wildlife Conservation Using Community Based Model: A Business Case for Zambia

Abstract

In recent years, the importance of sustainable hunting and wildlife management practices has gained increased recognition. This paper examines the importance of sustainable wild life conservation and sustainable hunting in preserving ecological balance, the impact of wildlife management on biodiversity, and the ethical considerations of harvesting wildlife for conservation and sustenance. By exploring the intersection of conservation, tradition, and environmental ethics, this paper aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of sustainable hunting and wildlife management practices in contemporary society in Zambia. Government regulators may also be needed to enforce property rights arrangements like catch shares and to monitor resources that remain open access in case socioeconomic or environmental conditions change sufficiently to trigger the tragedy of the commons. Most treatments of wildlife regulation default to various iterations of the government access model and fail even to consider the costs and benefits of private and open access models. The analysis here instead shows the conditions in which each conservation access model is most appropriate: open when a resource is in high supply and low demand, private most of the time, and government when the others fail to slow resource depopulation/depletion.