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Uncover a traditional knowledge success story.
"The community should be trusted." That's the advice of John Kasaona, a world-changing conservationist who wants to see local communities put in charge of solving their own environmental problems, and empowered to conserve their own natural resources.
Kasaona grew up watching his father hunt and kill endangered animals in in the Kunene Region of Namibia, in order to put food on the table for his family. But today, Kasaona's father is no longer a poacher. Instead, he works to protect the same animals in Namibia, as part of a community-organized effort to build up wildlife tourism in the region.
"Some conservationists try to protect rhinos and elephants by keeping local people away from these animals," Kasaona says. "But the best way to save endangered beasts is to let villagers own them. They should be able to protect them or eat them as they choose." Kasaona believes that local communities will make smart choices, if they are empowered to reap the rewards.
"Why? Because keeping the animal population alive proves more valuable to the village in the long-run. It helps them bring in tourism money and to take pride in the wildlife all around them."
"You don’t need a university degree to understand this. People take care of what they own. If they benefit from something, they value it."
Kasaona is part of a growing global movement, dedicated to empowering local communities to put their indigenous knowledge to good use. The Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network, or the CBNRM Net for short, is helping track and guide the movement in more than 70 countries around the world.
Your mission this week is to find out more about the movement to put traditional knowledge to better use -- and help spread its vision for the future.
Your objective:
Uncover a community management success story from the CBNRM Net's collection of more than 250 case studies from 75 countries.
Or, pick an indigenous knowledge case study from the KIVU (Knowlege, Imagery, Vision, and Understanding) Project for Indigeneous Knowledge.
Pick out what YOU think is the most important lesson from the case study and share it with the EVOKE network in a blog post, video or photo essay.
Super-objective: If you want to make an extra heroic effort this week, see if you can find follow-up information on the same case from another source. Bring the EVOKE network completely up to date on your success story.
This objective is worth +12 local insight.
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Comment by Abigail Griffin on April 14, 2014 at 2:54pm
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The community management success story that I found is about how the government in Botswana has given the people of the communities the ability to conserve and develop their natural resources. The most important lesson learned from this case is that when communities are able to receive profit from their natural resources there will be an increased inclination to preserve them for more sustainable development.
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karma. do whats right.
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In order to save forests in western Uganda, local communities were essential for implementation. LEARN8
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I think that a good lesson is when you give someone a choice they will usually make the rite one.
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I think that a good lesson is not to take from those who have nothing. If you steal someone's last dollar, they have nothing to use, and you just condemned them to an even worse life than they already had.
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I thonk an important lesson is that what goes around, comes around. If you are rude to someone, you may not always get your way in the end.
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I think an important lesson is that judging others says nothing about them, but it says a lot about you.
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i think that an important lesson is that people dont realize how much they need something until they have lost it and cant get it back.
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I think an important lesson is that if you are privileged then you need to realize that that is a privilege not a neccesity.
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One of the important lessons I saw was learning to protect animal and natures. Growing up people hunted important and endangered animals and didn't know any better. Nowadays people are very careful about what they hunt.
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I think an important lesson is that when you have extra resources (more than enough), don't be greedy. Give it to poorer people, and they will give back one day.
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I think the most important one is to not take away from those who have nothing, to give to those with so much.
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I think the most important is to never take advantage of what you have. There are people living in starvation and very little resources. At the end of the day, when everything is lost, you will appreciate what u were given.
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I think the most important lesson is to not take things away from those who don't have and add to what we already have.
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I think the most important lesson is that if you don't aim high and do your best then you won't achieve great things
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Comment by Ellie Addington on November 29, 2012 at 10:53pm
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I think that the mast important lesson is that you need to realize the different privlages that you have and think about how important it is because if you dont take care of it, then you will lose it.
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I think the most importent is that you should never take for granted and spoil your chance because it may be your only one.
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I think an important lesson to me is that you never realize hoe important something is until you lose it. When you have something you use it a lot but when its not there you don't know what to do without it.
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Comment by Grant Reeder on November 29, 2012 at 10:07pm
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I think the most important lesson is that once you lose something you think is useless(such as Africa's water) you do realize how important the item you lost is and you begin to wonder if you can live without it. You should stick with what you have and only give it away if you have more than enough.
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A lesson I think is important is that you should never take things for granted. While we live in the luxury of our home, some people are living in slums. People waste food while some people are starving.We should all appreciate the thing that we have and not take them for granted.
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