Assessing the Prospects for Community-Based Wildlife Management: The Himalayan Musk Deer (<i>Moschos chrysogaster</i>) in Nepal
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Abstract
Community-based wildlife management has been the subject of debate in recent years. We argue for more ex ante assessments of community-based wildlife management to distinguish good prospects from poor ones. We develop a conceptual framework, the Collective Resource Management framework, to carry out such evaluations and apply it to a case study community in northeastern Nepal that involves live capture and extraction of musk from the endangered Himalayan musk deer (Moschos chrysogaster). We find that the case study presents a number of favorable conditions conducive to community-based wildlife management but with several serious limitations. For example, the Nepali government must be willing to allow this activity on a legal basis, because wildlife exploitation has not been allowed within national parks historically; however, there are signs this may be changing. More importantly, the presence of a strong tourism industry in the case study community makes alternative economic activities like musk extraction less attractive, in comparison to poorer regions of Nepal where there is no tourism. The Collective Resource Management evaluation approach shows promise as a structured method to check the viability of community-based wildlife management projects before they are initiated.
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