CITES Convención sobre el Comercio Internacional de Especies Amenazadas de Fauna y Flora SilvestresCITEShttp://hdl.handle.net/10334/38972024-03-28T16:28:33Z2024-03-28T16:28:33ZAnalyzing the role of capacity building in strengthening coordination and collaboration among CITES stakeholders in GhanaAbeka-Mensah, Bridgethttp://hdl.handle.net/10334/81582023-12-21T01:01:12Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZAnalyzing the role of capacity building in strengthening coordination and collaboration among CITES stakeholders in Ghana
Abeka-Mensah, Bridget
Trabajo Fin de Máster Propio. Tutores: Dr. Kwakye Ameyaw ; Michael Balinga. The study examined the effectiveness of capacity building as a tool for strengthening coordination and collaboration among CITES stakeholders for an efficient implementation of CITES in Ghana. The study specifically assessed the existing policy and institutional framework put in place by the Management Authority for collaborative wildlife resource management and its related implementation challenges and examined the past training programs in terms of training needs assessment conducted prior to the training, qualification and experience of resource persons, curricula, and methods of delivery. The study found out the views of previous workshop participants about the training package in terms of course content, duration, method of delivery and the extent to which the outcome of the training has influenced the working relationship among the stakeholders and the Management Authority, and verify from the stakeholders who have benefited from the capacity building programs, mechanism they have put in place to ensure coordination and collaboration among themselves and the Management Authority and related Challenges.
The methodology used for data collection involved search for relevant literature, document analysis of past training reports, face-to-face interviews, and the use of survey guides.
The results of the study indicated that there is no policy, formal process, or mechanism other than ad hoc cooperation which is usually initiated by a phone call and joint export examination by Wildlife officers at the airport and other stakeholders. However, communication between customs officers stationed at the Kotoka International Airport and the Wildlife Division has improved due the CITES training programmes carried out in Ghana. The study observed further that there was lack of CITES training for stakeholder staff stationed at the two main seaports in the country, the various land borders, wildlife exporters and the Scientific Authority. Against the background of the findings, the study recommends that a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) should be signed between relevant CITES Stakeholders and the wildlife Division to define roles and communication networks.
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2023-01-01T00:00:00ZMise en place d'un cadre d'indicateurs d'auto evaluation du niveau de respect de la Convention CITES au CamerounMaha, Ngaliéhttp://hdl.handle.net/10334/81572023-12-21T01:01:11Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZMise en place d'un cadre d'indicateurs d'auto evaluation du niveau de respect de la Convention CITES au Cameroun
Maha, Ngalié
Trabajo Fin de Máster Propio. Tutores: Dr. Karen Gaynor ; Sofie Hermann Flensborg. Malgré leur adhésion à la CITES, plusieurs pays n’arrivent pas à prendre des mesures adéquates
afin d’être en conformités avec les règles de ladite convention. Le présent mémoire a pour principal
objectif d’élaborer un cadre d’indicateurs en vue de l’auto-évaluation du niveau de respect de la
Convention CITES au Cameroun. Pour ce faire, il a fallu dresser la cartographie des risques
inhérents à l’implémentation actuelle de la CITES, procéder à des enquêtes auprès des personnes
ressources et proposer un modèle d’auto évaluation. Il ressort qu’il existe plusieurs manquements
divers portant préjudice à l’implémentation de la CITES conformément au document CoP17
Doc.23. A terme et après la mise en application des recommandations issues de ce travail, l’organe
de gestion et les autorités scientifiques pourront de nouveau procéder à une évaluation afin de
s’éloigner du seuil de non-conformité pour des scores en dessous du seuil fixé à 70%. Le modèle
présenté ici pourra être aisément adapté à d’autres pays.; Despite their adherence to CITES, several countries fail to take adequate measures to comply with
the rules of the said convention. The main objective of this thesis is to develop a framework of
indicators for the self-assessment of the level of compliance with the CITES Convention in
Cameroon. To do this, it was necessary to draw up a map of the risks inherent in the current
implementation of CITES, to carry out surveys with resource persons and to propose a selfassessment
model. It appears that there are several miscellaneous shortcomings prejudicial to the
implementation of CITES in accordance with document CoP17 Doc.23.. In the long term and after
the implementation of the recommendations resulting from this work, the management authority
and the scientific authorities will be able to carry out an assessment again in order to move away
from the threshold of non-compliance for scores below the threshold set at 70%. The model
presented here can easily be adapted to other countries.
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2023-01-01T00:00:00ZAvis de commerce non prejudiciable, un atout mejeur pour le developpement et le suivi des speces menacees au Gabon : cas du "Guibourtia tessmannii"Mibambani Ndimba, Aimé Sergehttp://hdl.handle.net/10334/81562023-12-21T01:01:10Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZAvis de commerce non prejudiciable, un atout mejeur pour le developpement et le suivi des speces menacees au Gabon : cas du "Guibourtia tessmannii"
Mibambani Ndimba, Aimé Serge
Trabajo Fin de Máster Propio. Tutores: Alfred Ngomanda ; Dr. Donald Midoko Iponga. Le Gabon regorge cinq espèces de Kévazingo (Guibourtia) à savoir : Guibourtia demeusei (Harms) J.Léonard,
Guibourtia tessmannii (Harms) J.Léonard, Guibourtia pellegriniana J.Léonard, Guibourtia ehie (A.Chev.)
J.Léonard, et Guibourtia arnoldiana. Des questions en rapport avec la surexploitation des espèces du genre
Guibourtia ont été relevées ces 10 dernières années. Des quantités importantes des produits à base de trois
espèces de Guibourtia à savoir le Guibourtia demeusei, le Guibourtia tessmannii et le Guibourtia
pellegriniana ont été exportées en Asie et en Europe.
A cause de leur forte valeur sur le marché international, un trafic illicite avéré sur les espèces appelées
communément Kévazingo (G.tessmanii et G. pellegriniana) a conduit le gouvernement gabonais à la prise
d’une série de mesures ayant abouti à l’inscription en annexe II de la CITES.
Ces travaux qui aboutissent à la formulation d’une proposition d’un avis de commerce non préjudiciable pour
le G. tessmanii constituent une étape fondamentale pour une commercialisation suivie et maitrisée par le
gouvernement gabonais.
Mais le problème de la connaissance de nos ressources par le billet des études scientifiques demeure. Sur un
total de 74 concessions forestières choisies sur la terre ferme et correspondant à une partie de l’aire de
distribution du G. tessmanii séparé de l’aire de distribution de G. peligriniana, seules les données de 15
concessions ont permis d’aboutir aux calculs des quotas annuels. Pour le reste des concessions, il faudra
poursuivre la collecte des informations nécessaires. Il ressort pour ces quinze concessions, un quota annuel
moyen de 924, 387046 m3.; Gabon has five species of Kévazingo (Guibourtia) namely: Guibourtia demeusei (Harms) J.Léonard,
Guibourtia tessmannii (Harms) J.Léonard, Guibourtia pellegriniana J.Léonard, Guibourtia ehie (A.Chev.)
J.Léonard, and Guibourtia arnoldiana. Questions related to the overexploitation of species of the genus
Guibourtia have been identified over the past 10 years.
Significant quantities of products based on three species of Guibourtia namely Guibourtia demeusei,
Guibourtia tessmannii and Guibourtia pellegriniana were exported to Asia and Europe.
Because of their high value on the international market, proven illegal trafficking in species commonly known
as Kévazingo (G. tessmanii and G. pellegriniana) led the Gabonese government to take a series of measures
that led to the listing in Appendix II of CITES. . This work, which led to the formulation of a proposal for a
non-harmful finding of commerce for G. tessmanii, is a fundamental step for a marketing monitored and
controlled by the Gabonese government.
But the problem of knowing our resources through the scientific studies note remains. Out of a total of 74
selected forest concessions on land corresponding to a part of the range of G. tessmanii separated from the
range of G. peligriniana, only data from 15 concessions were used to calculate annual quotas. For the rest of
the concessions, it will be necessary to continue to collect the necessary information. For these fifteen
concessions, an average annual quota of 924.387046 m3 emerges.
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2023-01-01T00:00:00ZUnderstanding demand and supply dynamics for international trade in endangered vultures in Kano and Jigawa States, NigeriaMukhtar, Umar Idrishttp://hdl.handle.net/10334/81532023-12-20T01:01:17Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZUnderstanding demand and supply dynamics for international trade in endangered vultures in Kano and Jigawa States, Nigeria
Mukhtar, Umar Idris
Trabajo Fin de Máster Propio. Tutor: Yoila David Malann. As man estimates the exponential growth in his fellow human species populations, in contrast
he calculates the speed of wildlife species disappearance and extinction. Wildlife (including
plants and their derivatives) are exploited to meet demands in illegal markets that are both
domestic and international. There are well documented literatures on conservation, ecology,
habitat distribution, population, and trade of vultures in Nigeria. however, most of the previous
literatures on vulture trade in Nigeria overlooked the extent to which demand for international
trade in vulture specimen matches supply and efficacy of the trade control at both domestic
and international level. This work reviewed the available published literature in the scientific
journals, technical reports including thesis and dissertations on African-Eurasian vulture
species which affirmed the ambiguous nature of the west African vulture catastrophic decline
because of factors that included trade in the species specimen to satisfy several traditional and
belief-based systems at both domestic and international level. The primary data of this work
was gathered using semi structured interviews and structured (questionnaire or predetermined
questions) organized based on the research objectives, the Excel, Special Package for Social
Sciences (SPSS) and R Project for Statistical Computing (R-PSC) software were used to
arrange and analyse the data respectively. Information collected from 50 selected local
community stake holders indicated that hunters, wildlife traders and traditional herbalist
constituted 50% of the category of people in demand for vulture specimen The findings shows
that trade in vulture trade specimen is very high with 68% of the respondents directly or
indirectly engaged in supply and or prescribing vulture specimen, it was also discovered that
about 80% of the interviewee refused to categorically disclose the actual cost of vulture
specimen, only few 20% disclosed the range of the cost of the whole live vulture falling between
200,000 and 500,000 naira. The traditional hunters reported that apart from the body parts
specimens, anything associated with vultures including nest and freshly laid eggs are being
used either alone or as important ingredients in traditional medicine. The result further
indicated that 34% of the respondents expressed the fact that the cost of vulture specimen is
dynamic, the prices per specimen varies ranging from two hundred thousand naira to as high
as three million naira depending on the intensity of the demand and the availably of specimen
in need, 60% were on believe that meeting the demand in vulture specimen is not easy. The
result also found out that vultures have disappeared in the study area, about 40.6 % of the
specimen are however either sourced elsewhere in the countries geopolitical zones like north
central and southern Nigeria while 21.8 % from cross borders like Benin, Niger and Burkina Faso. Traders and hunters accounted for 23.4%, the demand and supply are not species
specific and the respondents were on the believe that vulture and wildlife trade is not
sustainable. The result generally revealed mismatch in the supply and demand for transaction
in vulture specimen across the research area. Further data collected from 45 heterogeneous
relevant enforcement agencies also revealed a strong effect (SW= 0.880, AIC = 724) of the
enforcement organizations on the level of knowledge of stakeholders’ ability to control trade
in vultures which indicated that relevant agencies for wildlife enforcement and Airport/border
control law enforcement organizations needs to be prioritizing the training of their personnel
to improve their understanding of the importance of vultures as well as overall wildlife
conservation and trade regulations, the findings showed that irrespective of locations or
organizations, the importance of Nigerian domesticated CITES regulations (ESA) for wildlife
conservation received strong perceptive support from the associated law enforcement agencies
in Kano and Jigawa States, Nigeria (SW= 0.895, AIC = 494.4). However, the conservation
priorities and trade control of vultures showed a non-significant pattern with locations in Kano
State, which may indicate the peculiarity of vulture trade and conservation across Northern
Nigeria. Though the management and intervention level of vulture conservations revealed a
strong effect (SW= 0.880, AIC = 724) of organizations on the intervention levels for vultures’
conservation, suggesting that border control law enforcement organizations might be
prioritizing different protection levels for vultures’ conservation status other than the one
contained (Schedule I) in the Nigerian domesticated CITES regulations (ESA).
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