Major Environmental Issues Facing Zimbabwe

Environmental justice is a topic that plagues societies around the world, and has an impact on the opportunities available to admire the breathtaking world that is around us. Environmental injustice, in this case, is the lack of the equality and participation that is presented in communities. More likely than not, there is an absence

I came across this book in my sophomore year where it was an assigned reading in professor Ranco’s class on the Environmental Justice Movement in the United States. Before taking this call I had no idea what environmental justice or injustice was. I was motivated and inspired by my particular thesis topic out of a desire to more fully understand some of the complex motivators for pro-environmental behavior. This book set a framework from which I went of to devolve a more complete understanding. From the Ground Up presents the history of the development of the environmental justice movement by way of retelling the stories of communities and activists who have worked to reshape environmental law and policy in both their communities and the nation

The ecological problem on our planet is complicated. There are many controversies surrounding endangered species because people don’t believe we should strip natural resources, there are not enough policies in place to protect species, and many people argue it takes too much money.

This paper uses the terms natural resource(s), resource(s), and reserve(s) in many different contexts. Please use care when interpreting their usage and context.

The world is declining in biodiversity, 52% of it is gone. About 1% of the world species go extinct a year. That’s 1’000 to 10’000 species loss. Accompanying it, 19’300 species are endangered. Latin America loss 83% of its wildlife. Over half of Malaysia’s river fish species disappear during deforestation. Half of Australian state governments exploit the uses of national parks. The Alpine suffer dramatic biodiversity loss. The earth is clearly losing biodiversity. This is huge unnoticed threat that we need to address. Mankind depends on the ecosystem which depends on biodiversity. There are changes that need to be made and uphold to prevent difficulties from further escalating. This problem isn’t going to fix itself.

This gratification is then harnessed by the authors to allow them to guide the audience through the truths of the “highly regulated” Zimbabwe trophy hunting industry, and the benefits its has to the economy, exposure and wildlife sustainability in Zimbabwe. Before going in depth into how the tourism industry will never be able to replace the countries reliance on the trophy hunting industry, the authors undermine the oppositions believe that it can, allowing them to more easily persuade their audience to their opinion regarding the topic. The authors open their first argument by stating that “hunters are willing to go to remote and unstable areas” in need of their tourism that “photographic tourists are unwilling to venture,” assisting in the flow of the benefits of tourism to more swiftly reach those areas. This creates a sense of pity within the audience, for the citizens in the low tourism areas that

Biodiversity may be our most precious gift on this planet. It is amazing to think about how much we know about our fellow creatures, and even more amazing to realize there is still so much to learn. From the smallest pollen to the biggest whale, every species has evolved to be a special part of its ecosystem. It is when we lose sight of the intrinsic value of all this life that we find ourselves destroying the delicate web and irreparably damaging ourselves as well. We cut down entire jungles into grazing land, irrigate vast deserts into golf courses, seal up marshes for business offices, dump toxic waste in the oceans. Since the passage of the Endangered Species Act in 1973, many animal and

In different ages different people inhabited Zimbabwe, from city dwellers to hunter gathers. The city dwellers took part in agriculture and domestication of animals, whereas the San people who did not live in cities mainly hunted animals for their food or gathered fruits. The history

“Conservation budgets are declining or stable, and responsibilities are increasing,” he said. “The number of hectares of land we have to protect is going up. How do we conserve biodiversity, and provide good visitor services?”

Great Zimbabwe is a civilization that sat on a gold mine, they had gold, diamonds, and many other minerals. This city was located in a great area that helped them survive very well. Great Zimbabwe started to form around A.D. 1000 by the Shona people. Zimbabwe had a republic government, they had two vice presidents and one main president. Though they were a great city, many centuries after they formed they were taken over by the Rowzi in the later 1400. The city that they call Great Zimbabwe really was great. Zimbabwe’s geography was one of the elements that made it great.

Natural resources play a critical role in the welfare of developing countries (Huizing etal, 2002). For many developing countries, natural resources are the base upon which all life depends. However, many developing countries have experienced and continue to experience severe degradation of their natural resources. Expansion in technology, population and economic activities have led to accelerated and unsustainable exploitation and depletion of natural resources (satapathy etal., 2008). This degradation, especially of forest cover has led to diminishing soil fertility, soil erosion, increase severity of the impact of drought, and the further reduction in the ability to produce food and other

Conservation efforts have been seen by many people as a blockade to the human agenda of technological expansion and population growth. Conserving biodiversity and ecosystems may only be acknowledged once the benefits to humans are outlined and are usually seen as a win-win situation. However, the concern isn’t enough to bring the whole population’s attention to the problem of biodiversity loss. Additionally, many countries don’t have the resources or the money to invest in conservation efforts, which is why countries that can implement conservation policy should. Conservation should be helpful to everyone, ecosystems and organisms included. Chan et al. (2007) discusses ecosystem services, the problem with win-win situations, and cost-benefit analyses.

New Zealand’s Biodiversity Strategy (2000) is a policy from the Department of Conservation (DOC) in which the aim of its third goal is to stop the decline of the country’s indigenous biodiversity. Goal 3 focuses on ecosystems and natural habitats in order to conserve species and biodiversity. This will be achieved by (i) restoring and maintaining a variety of ecosystems and habitats as well as (ii) restoring and maintaining sustainable populations of indigenous species; across the natural range of these species as well as maintaining the genetic diversity of these species ((DOC), 2000) . In order to realise this goal by 2020 timeframe stipulated in the strategy, the in depth knowledge about the status and ecosystems of these species is required. A part of the Biodiversity Strategy is that a “substantive review” is to be undertaken after a time frame of 5 years, in 2015, in order to access the “goals, roles, governance arrangements, objectives and priority actions” ((DOC), 2000, p. 130). The report ‘Synthesis Report: Review of the New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy’ (2015) highlighted 8 ‘building blocks’ that are now in place as a direct consequence of the Biodiversity Strategy. However, the report also highlighted ‘building blocks’ which are still required, most notably “indicators for biodiversity and biosecurity, linked to regional and national monitoring and reporting systems” (Green & Clarkson, 2015, p. 1).

This study’s finished product will also serve as the springboard for the government to establish a Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management since it is my belief co-management is intertwined with the establishment of this department in order to sustain the peace and national development initiatives in post-conflict Liberia. The views of these participants, particularly those from Liberia, will also set the structure of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management. This data will also be used to determine whether or not it is plausible to establish such a department in Liberia. I will travel to Liberia, Guinea, and/or Tanzania using Guinea’s co-management of forest resources as a case study or Tanzania’s forest conservation group’s strategies that were used to rescue the forests from charcoal producers.

Over the past twenty years, CBNRM has been adopted as a panacea for achieving sustainable NRM and rural economic development in East and Southern Africa [13]. CBNRM was born out of the wisdom that most causes of rural resource degradation take place due to centralised governance systems that exclude local communities from accessing resources in protected areas [14]. Thus, Nyirenda et al. [15], note that CBNRM should contribute to improved collective action in NRM. The net benefits of this approach include among others rural poverty alleviation, enhancing conservation, strengthening rural economies, empowering local community management capability in order to lead to long-term social, economic and ecological benefits [13]. CBNRM has been implemented using different models notable among which include Zimbabwe’s CAMPFIRE [16], and LIFE in Namibia [13].