Roles and it's Problems of Municipalities in Wildlife Management from the Perspective of Co-management

A Case Study of Kinki Area

Abstract

We tried to identify problems of wildlife management from the viewpoint of co-management. Questionnaire survey was employed to clarify excess and deficiency of coping-abilities of municipal governments: knowledge, skills, manpower and budget for wildlife management. As a result, we found that many municipalities had enough budget over the area of damage control with supports from prefectural government. However, we also found that manpower, knowledge and skill are still lacking to effectively deal with wildlife management. From this result, we suggest that a government and prefecture have to support in the area of securing staff resources and acquiring skill in municipalities.