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    Attitude and Perception of Local Community towards Wildlife in and around Debra Libanos open Hunting Area, North Shewa Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia
    (WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2019-06) GELETA SHASHO
    Attitude and perception of local community towards wildlife is crucial element in conservation of wildlife in everywhere protected area. Therefore, this study was conducted to the current status of attitude and perception of local community towards wildlife in and around Debre Libanos open hunting area in North Shewa Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia. Respondents were purposively selected (58) from total households (120) in the study area in order to carry out data collection. As the result showed that majority of respondents (73%) were reflected negative, some of them (20%), reflected negative and some others (7%) were have neither negative nor positive or neutral attitude and perception towards wildlife. The reasons of negative respondents were crop raiding (52.5%), destruction of domestic animals (26.5%), competition with livestock and disease transmission and lack of compensation (7%). The reasons of positive respondents were collection of wood fire (41%), construction of house (25%), attracting tourist (16.6%) and ecological value. The major problems mentioned in the study area reported by respondents were crop raiding and there was a problem of livestock predation by wild animals in very seldom. They are Olive Baboon, Warthog, Grivet Monkey and Gelada Baboon were the identified damage causing wild animals. The most predators species mentioned were Leopard, Hyena, Baboon and wild pig cause for the destruction of livestock like Dog, chicken, Goat and sheep. Due to such problems peoples were used different control measure. Majority of them were used guarding and some others used killing with poison, using snare, repellent, changing type of crop cultivated and the route of livestock.
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    Attitudes and Perception of local Communities toward Wildlife Conservation in and around Ambicho Natural Forest, Limo District, Hadiya Zone, Central Ethiopia
    (WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2023-05) Daniel Demiss
    Ethiopia is one of the biodiversity countries in the world that it deserves the attention regionally and globally. ANF is the remaining natural forest in Ethiopia which supports many wildlife including large mammals and birds Species surrounded by many local communities. The objective of this study was to access the attitude and perception of local communities towards the wildlife conservation questioner house hold survey and focus group discussion was used to analysis the local communities’ attitude. 40 respondents were selected from the total household(160) in the study area in order to collect accurate data from the respondents. 75% of local communities have negative attitude towards wildlife species in the study areas due to crop raiding (33.33%), lack of insurance (6.7%), disease transmission (20%), lack of knowledge for local communities about the value of wildlife (10%), destruction of domestic animals (23.3%)and lack of strong governmental rule for wildlife conservation (3.3%) and having negative attitude on wildlife without any aft action (3.3%) At the same time 20% of the local communities have positive attitudes toward wildlife that is why wildlife in the forest has their own values and benefits such as generate income from the tourist (25%), ecological value (25%), collection of wood from the habitat of wildlife (12.5), create job opportunity (12.5%) and construction of house(25%).