Abstract

Journal Article What is Conservation Biology? A new synthetic discipline addresses the dynamics and problems of perturbed species, communities, and ecosystems Get access Michael E. Soulé Michael E. Soulé Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar BioScience, Volume 35, Issue 11, December 1985, Pages 727–734, https://doi.org/10.2307/1310054 Published: 01 December 1985

Highlights

  • CREHP was designed to an increase in the proportion of married women complement CARE’s USAID-funded Development through Conservation (DTC) pro- using modern contraception in target communities ject, described above, that focused on environfrom 9.6% to 14.3% [49]

  • The other considers the cyclic dependence of villagers near protected areas upon livelihoods created by a fledgling ecotourism industry that, in turn, depends on healthy wildlife, mountain gorillas [53]

  • In Mukono parish, the proportion was 25.2%.103. Of those reporting FP use, 40% in Bujengwe versus 16% in Mukono said they got their method from a community-level worker

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Summary

INTRODUCTION

According to the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), thirty percent of the country’s residents live in the SW region due to high natural growth rates and in-migration associated historically with natural resource availability This contributes to the region ranking among the most densely populated rural areas in all of Africa—with an average of 200 - 300 people per square kilometre [25]. Http://www.wcs‐ahead.org/book/chapter16.pdf districts, 23 parishes border the park including approximately 10,000 families belonging to three Bantu peoples (the Bakiga/Bachiga, Bafumbira, and Barwanda). These people are mainly agriculturalists who cultivate the land immediately surrounding the park for their livelihood. With consistently large-sized families, over the generations, new household plot size has diminished

Districts in this region include
Background
3: Increased acceptance of FP among target community members

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