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The '''Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources''' ('''CAMPFIRE''') is a [[Zimbabwe]]an [[Natural_resource_management#Regional_or_Community_Based_NRM|community-based natural resource management]] programme. It is one of the first programs to consider wildlife as renewable natural resources, while addressing the allocation of its ownership to indigenous peoples in and around conservation protected areas.{{sfn|Satchel|1996}}

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The '''Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources''' ('''CAMPFIRE''') is a [[Zimbabwe]]an community-based natural resource management programme. It is one of the first programs to consider wildlife as renewable natural resources, while addressing the allocation of its ownership to indigenous peoples in and around conservation protected areas.{{sfn|Satchel|1996}}

==United States involvement==

The US federal government has invested resources in CAMPFIRE, principally through [[USAID]]. By 1997, $7 million had been donated to the programme. This support created controversy in US politics,. dueCAMPFIRE toleadership lobbied in favor of the organization'slegalization policyof positions,the whichsustainable stoodconsumptive inuse of [[endangered species]] as directa oppositionstrategy to USincrease the value of their remaining legislationpopulations. This conflictposition broughtclashed aboutwith significantthe concernmajority regarding[[Wilderness#Conservation_vs._preservation|preservationist]], theanti-hunting programmepublic andsentiment in the legalityUS ofas marketingwell productsas fromnational endangeredand speciesinternational law, in particular [[CITES]].{{sfn|Rowe|1997}}

==Results==