RDCs should compensate communal farmers

RURAL District Councils (RDCs) should formulate strategies that deal with compensation of human-wildlife conflict victims using Campfire funds, an official has said.

Communities living close to national parks lose lives, crops and livestock to wild animals that stray from conservancies, but do not get compensation.

Government currently does not have a national compensation policy to cover losses from wildlife conflict.

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