Expanding mandate and corporate social responsibility in the management of National Parks and protected areas in Nigeria
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...Local users in Tram Chim Na onal Park © Van Hoang Nguyen PARKS VOL 25.1 MAY 2019 | 76 within host communities (Ewah, 2010; Odebiyi et al., 2015)....
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...1 MAY 2019 | 76 within host communities (Ewah, 2010; Odebiyi et al., 2015)....
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...As NPs in Nigeria are found within underdeveloped communities that depend on local natural resources for their livelihood, their encroachment into NPs in order to provide for themselves is exacerbated by their exclusion from park management (Ewah, 2010)....
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...There are less than twenty post-secondary school graduates; less than one hundred post-primary school leavers and less than two hundred pupils in the three primary schools (Ewah 2009)....
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...Modern development is hindered by a number of factors including lack of access roads, vehicular transport, markets, poor health-care de- livery system and limited access to primary, secondary and tertiary education (Ewah 2009)....
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...The forest also provides water and the basis for social interaction, cultural celebration, and deep interconnections between the physical and the spiritual (Ash 1987; see also Ewah 2009)....
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...Relocation of youths from enclave communities to urban centres, leaves behind a large population of elders who engage in either hunting, foraging or farming (Ewah 2009)....
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...Livelihood analysis in park-edge communities have also revealed that wide variation exist in socio economic status among the local communities such that poorer households engage in activities such as illegal resources use and extraction while usually households are less dependent on forest resources [16,17]....
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...It was also discovered that the work strength of the park especially the rangers is low and lacks motivation and this results to poor protection of the park and is in conformity with the works of [17,9] that both divisions of Cross River National Park are poorly protected and are threatened by illegal logging, slash and burn farming, sanctuaries for poachers and expanding farmlands are gradually eroding the park from within....
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...…funds derived from royalties and community tax to partner with Cross River State Poverty Reduction Agency / World Bank to construct and equip a vocational training center for skills acquisition on nonforestry dependent vocations especially eco-tourism (EWAH, 2010; PANDRILLUS FOUNDATION, 2008)....
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