2nd & 3rd Poacher Questionnaires
Category: Poachers | Date: Jul 04 2008 | By: Kimojino
Questionnaire #2
Village:
Level of Education: Not educated
Marital Status: Married
Tribe: Age: 49
1. What wildlife species do you mostly hunt?
Wildebeest and Thomson Gazelles
2. How often do you hunt?
Weekly
3. What are the reasons for you to hunt?
Protein source, income, and lack of food at home.
4. Who are your main customers?
People in the village.
5. What is your mode of selling bushmeat?
House to house.
6. Which specific areas do you sell bush meat?
7. Which season do you mostly prefer to hunt?
Dry Season (June - November)
8. What time do you prefer to hunt?
Night.
9. How has the hunt and success rate change over the past five years.
Difficult, and less successful.
10. What happens when you’re caught?
Taken to court.
11. What tools do you commonly use for hunting?
Bow & Arrow, Dogs, Snares and Spears.
12. How do you transport bushmeat from hunting site to the village?
Using head.
13. How much do you sell a kilogram of bushmeat?
200 Kenyan Shillings (US $3.30)
14. Please name the places that illegal hunting for bushmeat occurs?
15. What health implications have you known related to bushmeat consumption?
Stomach complications and Malaria complications.
16. Are there any wildlife conservation awareness programs in your area?
Yes.
17. If yes, how often.
Quarterly
18. Have you ever been arrested?
No.
19. If yes, how many times?
N/a
20. Do you have other sources of income?
No.
21. If yes, what is your major source of income?
22. What do you think are the alternatives to the hunting for bushmeat?
Doing business at home, looking for employment, doing farming at home.
Questionnaire #3
Village:
Level of Education: Class 1 (up to 4 yrs old)
Marital Status: Married
Tribe: Age: 35
1. What wildlife species do you mostly hunt?
Wildebeest
2. How often do you hunt?
Not often.
3. What are the reasons for you to hunt?
Income.
4. Who are your main customers?
People in the village.
5. What is your mode of selling bushmeat?
House to house.
6. Which specific areas do you sell bush meat?
7. Which season do you mostly prefer to hunt?
Migration period of the wildebeest.
8. What time do you prefer to hunt?
Day and Night.
9. How has the hunt and success rate change over the past five years.
Difficult, and less successful.
10. What happens when you’re caught?
Taken to court.
11. What tools do you commonly use for hunting?
Snares and Spears.
12. How do you transport bushmeat from hunting site to the village?
By use of pundas (donkey).
13. How much do you sell a kilogram of bushmeat?
500 Kenyan Shillings (US $8)
14. Please name the places that illegal hunting for bushmeat occurs?
15. What health implications have you known related to bushmeat consumption?
Doesn’t provide good health, not good for stomach.
16. Are there any wildlife conservation awareness programs in your area?
No.
17. If yes, how often.
N/a
18. Have you ever been arrested?
No.
19. If yes, how many times?
N/a
20. Do you have other sources of income?
Yes.
21. If yes, what is your major source of income?
Mineral mining and crop (maize) farming.
22. What do you think are the alternatives to the hunting for bushmeat?
Crop Farming.
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8 Responses to “2nd & 3rd Poacher Questionnaires”
Annie, on 04 Jul 2008
Thanks for sharing………interesting to know what is behind the poaching incidents……….the motives for doing it…….
Martin Odino, on 04 Jul 2008
Hi Kimojino, I find it rather difficult to imagine that bushmeat is worth so much more than beef… do you really believe what these guys are writing? How can you use these surveys to get something on quantity of animals being killed per month/year? When Dino of dudu diaries was doing a similar survey of people who were poisoning fish he found that htey were much more willing to answer questions if they didn’t implicate themselves eg. Do you know anyone who hunts, How many times do they hunt, when etc. etc. and how much do they sell it for … when you offer these guys both questions you will see where they are being untruthful (they are saying they have not been caught …do they know anyone who has been caught? What did they do when they got caught (you’ll find out if they paid off someone) could be interesting to add some questions to the questionnaire. What will you do with all the data gathered? Will you share it with us and the Tanzanian and Kenyan authorities?
Sukuma Kenya, on 04 Jul 2008
This is a great idea to share some of the raw data. Interesting point that Martin makes as often I have heard exactly the opposite: bushmeat is often half the price of butchery meat. In areas where I have worked in Tsavo, one of the main problems even if people want to move to livestock is that there are so few butcheries to buy or sell because the livestock authorities cannot reach far enough for inspection.
William, on 04 Jul 2008
Hello Martin
The questionnaires were compiled by a student at Mweka, Tanzania and are part of his post-graduate course in Wildlife Management. We just thought it’d be interesting to publish the ones that we took today from the poachers so that visitors to this site could get a more rounded view of what’s going on.
Yes, you’re probably right, there are a few fabricated answers here - it is nearly always the “first time” they’ve ever hunted…
Deirdre, on 05 Jul 2008
I’m feeling a bit sorry for the poachers - is that stupid? Would they be able to get by on those other sources of income alone? What happens if they can’t pay the fines?
Apologies if that sounds too negative. You rangers are doing a great job, bless you!
William, on 05 Jul 2008
Deirdre
Not stupid at all! Never in this world are things so simple that you can see one side as good and the other as completely bad.
Why people poach raises questions with answers beyond our scope of duty, but it is something that we should always think about.
People do get by here on cattle and crop growing, and some people do very well.
What happens to the poachers now is up to the courts.
scienceguy288, on 05 Jul 2008
When you see education level and income answers, you can begin to realize the scope and depth of the problem of and behind poaching.
Evanson Kariuki, on 06 Jul 2008
Hie Martin,
Regards from Mweka, and thanks for your points. our studies on illegal bushmeat in east africa will take 18 months with 2/3rd of the program being fieldwork. we have so far only done five months with 13 more to go. these studies are taking place simultaneously in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and South sudan. we were out in the field in the months of April and May conducting bushmeat assessments and we are currently analysing the data that was collected. at the end of the course we will share our findings with any one who will be interested. the studies are sponsored by the US fish and wildlife service, wildlife without borders- Africa program and you can learn more about the program at http://www.mentorfellowshipprogram.org. the issue of pricing could have been a mix up by the person making the entry as Kshs instead of Tshs. all the bushmeat obtained in the Mara triangle for commercial purposes is sold across the border by poachers in the villages. This blog is doing a commendable job by raising awareness on the illegal bushmeat utilization which is one of the direct causes of the rapid decline in wildlife populations in the region.
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