Gabon to devise human-wildlife conflict management plan

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President of Gabon, Ali Bongo Ondimba, has
announced a national management plan of
human-wildlife conflict to protect the village
communities threatened by elephants.
He disclosed this on Saturday at the conclusion
of the ‘Giants Club Summit’ focusing on
elephant poaching.


Ondimba said he wanted to ensure that rural
populations had equal opportunities in
agricultural activities and the right to a peaceful
life.
The country’s villages near national parks have
seen animal raids, that often target crops and
result in food insecurity for those households.
Not only is the management plan about that, the
country’s elephant population is under constant
threat from poachers, with more than 20,000
killed in a decade, according to the National
Parks Agency. The management strategy will
also assist in fighting poaching which has hit
countries by storm.
The world’s black-market ivory trade – which is
threatening Africa’s elephant populations with
extinction – is mostly fuelled by demand in Asia,
where elephant tusks and rhinoceros horns are
used in traditional medicine and to make
jewellery and decorative objects.