Understanding the socio-ecological impacts of the hunting moratorium in Botswana

非洲的狩猎和自然保护在自然保护运动的一生中一直是联系在一起的。然而，战利品狩猎对保护的贡献是一个激烈争论的问题，部分原因是缺乏证据证明作为一种保护工具的有效性，并且越来越多的人呼吁禁止这种做法。经过几十年的保护措施，包括可持续利用野生动物，博茨瓦纳政府于2014年1月暂停了所有国家和部落土地上的狩猎。这一禁令提供了一个自然的实验，以增加作为保护工具的战利品狩猎有效性的证据基础。本项目以博茨瓦纳为例，结合多种研究技术，旨在了解该政策决定的一些社会和生态影响及其对保护的影响。该项目旨在审查全非洲狩猎业的保护影响，以综合现有的证据，证明狩猎作为一种保护工具的有效性。它的目的是确定博茨瓦纳暂停对参与社区福祉的影响以及影响这些社区的更广泛的社会政治因素。它进一步旨在了解禁令对社区对野生动物的容忍度、野生动物种群趋势以及当地和区域土地利用的影响。在整个过程中，这些问题的复杂性将得到承认，并强调混淆因素。

Hunting and conservation in Africa have been linked throughout much of the conservation movement's lifetime. The contribution of trophy hunting to conservation is however, a matter of intense debate, in part fuelled by the lack of evidence as to the efficacy as a conservation tool for, and there have been increasing calls to ban the practice. After decades of following a conservation approach which included sustainable wildlife use, the government of Botswana set a moratorium on hunting on all state and tribal land in January 2014. This moratorium provides a natural experiment for adding to the evidence base on the efficacy of trophy hunting as a conservation tool. Using Botswana as a case study and a mixture of research techniques, this project aims to understand some of the social and ecological impacts of that policy decision and its implications for conservation. The project aims to review the conservation impacts of the Africa-wide hunting industry to synthesise existing evidence of the efficacy of trophy hunting as a conservation tool. It them aims to determine the impact the moratorium in Botswana has had on the well-being of participating communities and the broader socio-political factors affecting these. It further aims to understand the impacts the moratorium has had on community tolerance towards wildlife, wildlife population trends and local and regional land use. Throughout, the complexity of these issues will be acknowledged, and confounding factors highlighted.