Economic Significance of O.D. for Economic Activities
How much of Botswana's GDP comes from the Okavango Delta?
13%
What major industry would be affected if Delta’s wildlife populations decreased and wetlands shrunk?
Tourism
If elephants, birds, or other animals decline in numbers, which job would people begin to lose?
Safari tour guide jobs
What management approach can give locals more control over natural resources and wildlife, essentially allowing them to earn back from tourism and conservation efforts?
Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM)
COMPACT then gives out grants. Would community trusts or individuals receive said grants?
Community trusts
What is the largest contributor Botswana's GDP?
Diamonds
What are the Botswanan aviators that ferry tourists to and from the Okavango delta called?
Bush pilots
Upstream mineral/oil exploration could lead to habitat fragmentation, which reduces the population viability of large mammals. Which genetic process, crucial to these species, is affected?
Gene flow
The sustainability of the Delta may rely on Angola, Botswana, and Namibia to team up and form a cross-border management plan. What is this known as?
Transboundary water management
Who would manage the grants?
What impact does fishing have on the locals of the Okavango Delta, besides job opportunities for guides?
It is their primary source of protein
In total, how much do households in and around the Delta make per year from natural resource use, sales, salaries and wages in the tourism industry, and rents and royalties with CBRNM?
P225 million (~$16.9 million)
The total economic value of the Delta wetlands is estimated to be P480,509,980 (~$36.2 million). Climate change will result in reduced rainfall in the wetlands area, bringing the total economic value down to P361,125,703 (~$27.2 million). What is the percent decrease?
25%
The people who live in and around the Delta derive benefits from both tourism and natural resources. Tourism provides cash value (more versatile), but natural resources provide subsistence value. What does subsistence value mean?
The value natural resources bring to these people helps them live; it gives them firewood, food for animals, etc.
A significant change that COMPACT emphasized was the transition from resource extraction to conservation-based income sources. What is one example of a conservation-based income source?
Mokoro (canoe) tourism, guiding training, cultural heritage tourism, etc.
How common is malnutrition in children when there are limited fishing resources?
About 1 in 5 children (~20%) are malnourished
During the wet season, when flooding causes the Delta to transform into lagoons and floodplains, the Delta's transformation is prized by which types of scientists (especially during the summer migration)?
Birdwatchers (ornithology)
In the Delta, a large herbivore, the “ecological engineer”, creates watering holes, disperses seeds, and clears vegetation to enable other prey, predators, and overall other life to thrive is known as what?
The African Elephant
COMPACT is a community-based conservation and development system created by UNESCO and a few other global organizations. It stands for Community Management of Protected Areas for Conservation. Based on this acronym, how do you think they manage protected wilderness areas? Be specific.
They believe that conservation is more effective when local people directly benefit and participate
What is the average gross income of the Okavanga Delta?
~P115 million (~$8.66 million)
The presence of which bird indicates healthy biodiversity in the delta due to variety of species for prey?
Pied kingfishers
Before grants were given, COMPACT supported research to find a baseline assessment of the people and animals in the Delta. What sorts of things did they research?
Livelihood patterns, animal conflict areas, water use, poorest and most affected communities, and key ecological threats to the Delta