§ Mr. DafisTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much is allocated by the Overseas Development Administration to special training616W programmes in wildlife management techniques and if he will break these figures down into the amounts spent on (a) annual capture and translocation, (b) management of crop-raiding animals, (c) veterinary diagnosis and management of diseases, (d) operation of culling programmes, (e) the development of village-level use of wild species, (f) management of sports hunting and other associated activities, (g)implementation of reintroduction programmes for both plants and animals and (h) programmes to exterminate damaging introduced and invasive species.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydInformation is not readily available in the form requested by the hon. Member. However, many of the projects ODA supports in wildlife management include elements for training for developing country personnel. Some examples include:
- (i) £12 million for Kenya's protected areas Wildlife Services project to protect rare and endangered species;
- (ii) £474,000 for the Zoological Society of London to protect black rhinos and other flora and fauna and prevent damage to crops and livestock by predators in the Aberdares, Kenya;
- (iii) £91,000 in support of community education programme to promote conservation and sustainable resource use in Zimbabwe;
- (iv) £30,000 for training and equipment for the Ecological Research Institute at Etosha, Namibia to develop remote sensing techniques for effective environment monitoring and management of wildlife parks.
We also support training in the United Kingdom on environmental subjects; of the 485 broad-based environment awards in 1990–91, 12 were for specific wildlife management training courses at a cost of approximately £140,000.