The CAMPFIRE programme in Zimbabwe: Payments for wildlife services

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Date

2008

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Elsevier B.V.

Abstract

This paper discusses the development of Zimbabwe's Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE). Implemented in 1989, it is one of the earliest examples of a PES (payments for environmental services) program. The authors describe the design, implementation, and effects of CAMPFIRE, and present five lessons that can be applied to other evolving PES schemes.

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Rural development, Wildlife, Community institutions, Community management, Payments for environmental services, Community-based organizations, Conservation, Tourism, Biodiversity conservation, PES, CAMPFIRE, Safari hunting, Zimbabwe, Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM), Ecosystem Governance

Citation

Ecological Economics 65(4): 776-787