ABSTRACT
A number of protected areas have developed joint management agreements with local communities, and in many areas research activities are undertaken with a significant degree of local participation. In Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (BINP) in Uganda, for example, revenuesharing and multiple use programmes have helped improve community-park relations and community participation in conservation activities, while enhancing local people’s sense of ownership and collective responsibility for the park (see Case Study 6.3; Mutebi et al, 1997). BINP staff are also trying to protect local communities’ rights to control access to, and benefit from, their traditional ecological knowledge, as part of wider efforts to set standards for research relationships (see Case Study 6.3).
