| Abstract |
The commercial use of wildlife is the cornerstone of economies of many countries across the world. Wildlife commercialisation has also inadvertently led to over-exploitation of the resources either by local or foreign communities. Consequently, there have been extensive poaching, population declines and local extinctions of some wildlife species. Informed by the routine activities theory, this study explored the interaction between wildlife commercialisation and subsistence poaching in community and non-community managed wildlife areas in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. The specific objectives were to: (a) assess the interaction between wildlife commercialisation and subsistence poaching (b) compare the patterns of subsistence poaching of wildlife in community and non-community managed wildlife areas, and (c) determine the influence of current wildlife management strategies on subsistence poaching. |
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