Socio-Environmental Conflicts in the Limits of Natural Parks in Africa: Characterization and Strategies for the Resolution of Conflicts Between Communities and Wild Animals in Kibale National Park - KNP- Uganda

Abstract

Kibale National Park - KNP is a park located in the western part of Uganda, where there is a great interest from foreign tourists to visit the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) populations that live there. The park is located within a landscape grid, where there are both human settlements of rural populations, where there are small-scale agricultural activities, such as subsistence farming, and large-scale activities such as tea plantations. The KNP’s 2008-2017 matrix of records of negative community-wildlife interactions was used for this work. For the study period, it was found that for the five (5) districts that are in the Kibale park environment, 60% of the incidents were recorded in Kabarole district. As for those of conflicts, approximately 15 wild animals were the ones with whom incidents arose during the study period, 93% of the cases of incidents were found to be with elephants.