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About Ferme de Démonstration Wédbila |
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We are setting up a farm to demonstrate commercially-viable wildlife
intensive and semi-intensive husbandry and to train young couples from
villages located about the remaining commercially-viable wildlife areas,
especially where we are setting up village hunting zones. We need to
show that these areas of natural vegetation can produce in ways other
than by cotton, millet, and corn. Thus, at our farm, we must demonstrate
the commercial capacities of intensive husbandry as being complementary
to extensive management. Our farm is not a zoo in the strict sense
although conservation education and restocking of disappeared species
promotes the inclusion of some non commercially-viable species, as
week-end tourism will help to finance our training program.
We have created the non-profit Wildlife Production
Development Center (WPDC), based at the farm, as the vehicle for the non
commercial aspects (research, training, a book on optimising
socio-economic benefits from extensive wildlife husbandry, a book on
intensive and semi-intensive farming of wildlife in Burkina Faso, the
restocking of species such as the red-necked ostrich, etc.).
Author: Clark Lungren (owner of the farm)
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