ABSTRACT
In concluding this book I would like to draw the reader's attention back to my earlier discussion in Chapter 1 of common property theory and 'bundles of rights' (Maine 1884) to wildlife utilization. In that chapter it was pointed out that wildlife resource planners conceptual discourse in Southern Africa tends to emphasize the goal of enabling or creating sustainable community-based wildlife management regimes, through communal common property regimes (see definition Chapter 1 pp. 20-3). My research findings indicate that we are, in fact, discussing co-management or joint jurisdiction regimes (Lawry 1990; Berkes 1989: 38) in which global, state, private and communal bundles of rights are played out as portrayed in Chapters 4 and 6. Chapter 4 presents the broader vested interests in resources as an analytical framework for understanding the cultural and political dynamics of resource use at ward level (see Fig. 4.1). This chapter includes a discussion of historical factors such as the creation of safari areas, global factors such as the CITES debates, national policy, system of local government, competing land-use strategies, and shows how these and other factors are related to each other and to the changing ecological resource base. Chapter 6 is an account of the competing bundles of rights to wildlife, including claims of the ancestral spirits, illegal hunters, the wildlife committee, the safari operator, DNPWLM, district council and others. Both chapters indicate the complexity of wildlife resource use in Chapoto ward, because of these multiple jurisdictions.
