Biodiversity for Society
A reflection on the diversity of direct local impacts (benefits and costs) of the Kruger National Park.
This report provides a consolidated summary of some of the direct, local impacts (costs and benefits) of the Kruger National Park across a range of stakeholders. The report outlines the Kruger National Park’s rationale, context and framework for sharing benefits. Some current challenges and lessons learnt are included, specifically for reflection on the path towards more effective benefit sharing for biodiversity conservation and human well-being.
The report includes benefit data for all relatively recent formal programmes and initiatives for which data were available. Added value (down stream) or “knock on” impacts in the local and broader region are not within the scope of this report. Benefits accrued after December 2015 (or in some cases March 2016 in line with the end of the financial year end) are not included, and reporting on smaller, once-off initiatives only covers the time period between January 2014 and December 2015.
Under the current climate of rapid transformation and more radical approaches to sharing benefits, numerous new programmes aimed at facilitating benefits to local neighbours via wildlife economy related models are underway. However, most of these are in the early stages of development, and hence have not been included in this report in detail.
