tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36530882257252110642024-03-13T15:14:39.529+03:00Cow Protection Conservancy Uganda (CPCU)The natural world and ecosystems are best conserved by the people who live within! The motto and goal of the Iziina Rirungi Rigumaho is COWS -- Conserving Our World Sustainably. We do it by establishing conservancies that are centered on self-sufficiency ensured by the cow and a simple lifestyle.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15057006339772374671noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653088225725211064.post-77631352596950831512013-11-11T19:56:00.001+03:002016-03-08T00:25:48.063+03:00The CPCU Manifesto<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Cow Protection Conservancy Uganda (CPCU)</span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Iziina Rirungi Rigumaho Association
(IRRA) is a community based organization registered in Uganda. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 25pt;">IRRA is concerned with natural
resources conservation in East Africa.
Towards this end, IRRA initiated a project to protect the long-horned
Ankole cattle (LHAC) in 2012. This project is called Cow Protection Conservancy
Uganda (CPCU). Nasasira Livingstone is
Director of CPCU. The home of CPCU is
Mbarara in Uganda.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Who are the LHAC?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The
<i>Sanga<a href="file:///C:/Users/User/Documents/CPCU%20Project%20Manifesto.doc#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></i>
originated in Ethiopia around 2000 BC when ancient Bos taurus breeds and early Bos
indicus (or zebu) breeds were crossed and spread to east, west and central
Africa (Felius 1995; Hanotte et al. 2000), reaching Uganda before 1000 BC
(Epstein 1971). Payne and Hodges (1997) hold that Sangas reached Uganda
sometime between the 10th and 14th century. Epstein’s date was taken from rock
paintings found on Uganda’s Mount Elgon. The similar frequency of zebu-specific
material in the East African Sangas suggests that the mixing of taurine and
indicine genotypes resulted from the original interbreeding that first
occurred.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Renowned
traditional breeders of the LHAC are the aba-Hima (or Bahima<a href="file:///C:/Users/User/Documents/CPCU%20Project%20Manifesto.doc#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>), a
cow-keeping community who belonged to Ankole Kingdom (formerly Nkore). This Kingdom (which was abolished by the
central government of Uganda in the late 1960s gave the LHAC their name,
“Ankole cattle<a href="file:///C:/Users/User/Documents/CPCU%20Project%20Manifesto.doc#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>.” Other large scale keepers of the LHAC are the
Wanyambo<a href="file:///C:/Users/User/Documents/CPCU%20Project%20Manifesto.doc#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> of
Karagwe in the Kagera Region of North West Tanzania and the Watutsi<a href="file:///C:/Users/User/Documents/CPCU%20Project%20Manifesto.doc#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> of
Rwanda and Burundi. Therefore, another
international name of the LHAC is Watusi of which the giant-horned variety
owned by the Tutsi kings and chiefs, called the Inyambo<a href="file:///C:/Users/User/Documents/CPCU%20Project%20Manifesto.doc#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>, is now
thought to be extinct<a href="file:///C:/Users/User/Documents/CPCU%20Project%20Manifesto.doc#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>. Many other communities living in “the greater
cattle corridor” in nine countries within eastern Africa herd the LHAC on a
much smaller scale.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">The LHAC is particularly amazing. In Uganda,</span><span lang="EN-GB"> Tanzania, </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda" title="Rwanda"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Rwanda</span></a>, and</span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burundi" title="Burundi"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Burundi</span></a>, </span><span lang="EN-GB">the</span><span lang="EN-GB"> Ankole-Watusi was
traditionally considered sacred. They supplied milk to the owners, but were not
considered for meat, since that was regarded as taboo. Before the last half of
the 20th century, cows which died, particularly the herd’s leading bull, were
buried by their “bereaved” owners,. Among the Bahima, each herd of 100 cows has
one sire.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Living in the savannas and open grasslands, the LHAC’s diet consists of
grass and leaves. They are able to utilize poor quality</span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB">forage</span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB">and limited quantities of water. Their horns are actually natural
thermostats enabling them to manage extremes of temperature. These survival abilities have enabled them to
survive for centuries in Africa and also to be established in other places of the
world. Ancient rock paintings and
depictions of the LHAC have been observed in the Sahel region and in the
Egyptian arts and pyramid walls.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Why is there urgent
need to protect the LHAC?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In
2007, world scientists working with FAO announced at Interlaken Switzerland
that the LHAC faced extinction within 20 years.
Their argument was based on the fact that among all cattle-keeping
communities in the least developed and developing countries, agricultural economists
and politicians were advising against maintenance of indigenous breeds because
their low meat and milk yields posed an economic dilemma in the quest to escape
the poverty trap.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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introduction of commercial agriculture by the West on tropical African ranges
has introduced so-called high yielding milkers from the northern
hemisphere. The leading breed is the
Holstein Friesian (HF) itself originated by powerful American corporations such
as World Wide Sires. Carried in vials
which might have been kept for decades, the semen that is used to proliferate
the HF was mainly extracted from only two sires: <b>Chief </b>and <b>Elevation, </b>a
rather limited selection of traits indeed!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the choice is also rather simple were it not absurdly simplistic. Breed money or conserve biological diversity.
In Uganda, the campaign to interbreed the LHAC with the high-yielding Holstein
Friesian (HF) or to harvest the LHAC outright in favor of the HF has made so
much economic sense that there is not a single ranch without an exotic herd.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While
it is desirable, even imperative, that as many of the world’s poor people as
possible should increase their <i>monetary</i>
income, it is suicidal to do so using an interim solution which portends
catastrophic environmental consequences. Substituting the LHAC with the HF can only be temporary
because the latter is not: (i) suited to
the tropical heat, (ii) equipped for the hostile environment tropical heat
creates, (iii) tolerant to ad hoc and insufficient veterinary care, (iv)
prepared for periods of acute disease loads, and (v) able to utilize low
quality forage, especially during periods of acute drought. But the natural veriegatedness of the tropics
and the tropical climate is not about to be eradicated from the African rangelands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What is
being done to protect the LHAC?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In
the wake of the Interlaken pronouncements, the government of Uganda, among
other players, initiated conservation interventions by establishing a semen and
ovary bank at a national conservatory.
The breeding centers at Nshara and Ruhengere, for example, are primarily
aimed at securing the genetic existence of the LHAC rather than to keep it on
its hooves in any substantive way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">CPCU
is using the ecological diversity approach, arguing that the LHAC, like any
other species, has its <u>traditional ecological niche</u> which, once
destroyed, will be difficult to recreate regardless of availability of gene
banks. Conserving any species starts
with ensuring the integrity and stability of its habitat. Laboratories, however sophisticated, cannot
cope with the multitude of permutations involved in ecosystem equations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Simply
defined, the CPCU approach is COWS: <i><u>“Conserving
Our World Sustainably”</u></i> That’s our motto…, our rallying call. Regrettably,
breeding standards which made the LHAC survive for thousands of years against
tropical diseases, heat and its effects, among other hardships, have been
significantly interfered with especially since the last half of the 20<sup>th</sup>
century. Animal drugs, confinement, beef farming, and worse of all, bush
clearance in the name of making farms fit for HF have not only stripped the
ranges of numerous plant life but it also has led to disappearance of
homeopathic, naturopathic and therapeutic agents beneficial, not only for the
LHAC, but needless to say, all animate life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In
Uganda, the Bahima are integrally experienced with
breeding standards of the LHAC and how suitable the environment should be in
order to carry a given LHAC population. They
attach spiritual significance to their cows, which directly or indirectly attach
them to pastoral land and land resources and all in nature. For instance for the Bahima, every hill and
valley, every well, tree, shrub and herb has a name that suggests the LHAC links
or delinks them <i>“to historical or mythical events and to the ancestors who
gave them these cows and taught them to love them”</i> Mark Infield (2003).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With
this in mind, the CPCU approach is to enable traditional local communities (TLCs)
in the cattle corridor, who have kept the LHAC there for millennia, to continue
doing so without degrading their pastures and ecosystems on pastures depend in
pursuit of recent standards of measure for wealth and livelihood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The CPCU goal<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our
goal is ultimately to create a self-sufficient, sustainable, community-wide conservation
effort which will serve as a springboard for a return to sustainable environmental
conservation among the LHAC dependent communities. We believe replication will easily come along
quickly once it can be proven that economic self-sufficiency centered on COWS
is possible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The CPCU approach<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">CPCU
activities are based on 5 pillars, namely:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Mobilize—<i>create awareness</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Organize—<i>associate, systematize and restructure</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Coordinate—<i>harmonize, regularize</i> <i>and synchronize</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Cooperate—<i>work in partnership, </i><i><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">liaise</span></i><i>, and/or
bridge</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Manage—<i> operate, lead by example and/or mentor</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Primary
objectives of CPCU <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">CPCU
has set out to achieve the following specific objectives centered on the LHAC
and the traditional local communities (TLCs) whose livelihoods continue to
revolve around it:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></i><!--[endif]--><i>Demonstrate that
the LHAC is both economically profitable and sustainable<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The TLCs
generally recognize a number of important roles the cow plays in their lives. These include, among others, that the LHAC:
(i) is a source of food for the family; (ii) dictates protection of the commons
and communal ties; (iii) is the basis of the beauty and utility they consider
in the natural world; (iv) serves as a seal of social contract and, often, as a
medium of dispute resolution; (v) is an indicator of prosperity and social
status; and (vi) inspires spiritual (probably metaphysical) satisfaction, and/or
empirical knowledge. CPCU has set up a
conservancy in which to demonstrate all known best practices in the management
of the LHAC as learned from the TLCs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></i><!--[endif]--><i>Demonstrate that it
is easier to achieve sustainable land management (SLM) of East African
rangelands with the LHAC than with the HF<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sustainability
of any ecosystem is best ensured by the people who live within and directly depend
on it for their livelihood. Outsiders
can only play a support role. This
includes the design of models and methodologies for land management. The Bahima, for example, inherited a rich
fund of indigenous knowledge (IK), which enabled them to live productively, for
several millennia, with their LHAC without antagonizing their environment whose
lifecycles they keenly observed, maintained and protected. CPCU has set the conservancy within a TLC
that is most interested in sustaining this way of life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></i><!--[endif]--><i>Rediscover the
socio-cultural and spiritual framework that has long been the basis of the
harmonious balance between man and nature among LHAC keepers<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The TLCs long-established practices entail a close symbiotic
relationship with the cow and the environment.
This stems from ancient civilizations that based continuity and survival
on sustainable cow economics. For
instance, among the Tutsi it was taboo to kill a cow for its meat. The meat
craze is only recent: it came with the advent of “modernization”. CPCU will explore this framework of domestic
animal management for land and environmental sustainability.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We hope you like to support this endeavor.</span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For details, please visit our website: <a href="http://www.rigumaho.org/">www.rigumaho.org</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You may also post your thought or response on our blog: <a href="http://rigumaho.blogspot.com/">http://rigumaho.blogspot.com/</a></span> <span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Epstein,
H. (1971). The Origin of the Domestic animals of Africa. New York, Africana
Publishing Corporation. 465.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Felius
M., 1995. Cattle Breeds: An Encyclopedia. Misset, Doetinchem. 799.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hanotte,
O., Taweh, C.L., Bradley, D.G., Okomo, M., Verjee, Y., Ochieng, J. and Rege,
R.E.O. (2000). Geographical Distribution and Frequency of Tourine Bos Indicus Y
Specific Allele Amongst Sub-Saharan Africa n Cattle Breeds. Molecular Ecology <b>9</b> 387-396.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Payne,
W.J.A. and Hodges, J. (1997). Tropical Breeds: Origins, Breeds and Breeding
Policies. Oxford, UK, Blackwell Science Ltd.</span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sanga is another name the long horned Ankole cattle are known by internationally.
A place called Sanga, well known for these cows and inhabited by the Bahima, their
renowned keepers, is situated in the heart of the cattle corridor.</span></div>
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Bahima: A Cow Tribe of Enkole in the Uganda Protectorate, </span><i>The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great
Britain and Ireland, </i>Vol. 37, (Jan. -
Jun., 1907), pp. 93-118 ; Bahima <a href="http://agtr.ilri.cgiar.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=98&Itemid=116">http://agtr.ilri.cgiar.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=98&Itemid=116</a>
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http://blogs.worldwatch.org/nourishingtheplanet/five-indigenous-livestock-breeds-you-have-never-heard-of/
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Ekitabo eki kikahandikwa </span></i><span style="line-height: 15pt;"><i><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">ahabw’ekigyendererwa eki.</span></i></span></span></b><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 15pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> Okutunga gye n’okurinda gye ente, n’okukwata
gye ensi y’ente ahabw’okwenda kugigumyaho eshugaine ahabw’abaitu abarigumaho
itwe tutakiriho. </span></i></b><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 15pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Omurimo ogu nigukorwa ekibiina
ky’abantu b’obutoosha, </span></i></b><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 15pt;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; font-variant: small-caps;">Cow Protection Conservancy Uganda</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">
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bakabona omubazi gw’okumutambira, bagumuha akira. Mbwenu kubaba bamutembekire
amaguru nairuka abatsigire, abugana abandi bantu bari kumumanya. Banu bati,
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ekitabo eki kikozirwe emishororongo mikye ey’ebigambo ebyaihirwe hanu na hariya omu kitabo ekihango Iziina Rirungi Rigumaho. Ebihandikiirwe omu ni biruga omu kuchondooza okwatwaire emyaka mingi nikukorwa. Nitugira ngu amagyezi g’aba-nya-Nkore amaingi, gabiikirwe aha rurimi rwabo omu bigambo byabo. Otarirondera ahandi!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Okuchondooza oku kukakorwa aha batungire e nte. Abamwe bari omuri Uganda abandi n’aba Rwanda, Burundi, Kongo na Tanzania. Aga n’amahanga ataano ahari mwenda agari kurabwamu ekiturikweta Enkoora Y’ente omu kitabo omu. Enkoora Y’ente ekabaganisibwa emyatano y’amahanga mwenda ey’abajungu bataireho kutaanisa Afrika. Okuhitsya nahati, ebichweka by’e nsi y’e nte egi biri omu mahanga ago, omu burugwa-izooba bwa Afrika. Amahanga agututarahikizemu amaguru gaitu omu kuchondooza oku, tukagazamu omu muringo ogw’okushoma ebiri kukwata aha batungi b’e nte abaayo. Nigo Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, na Sudan. Ni tutiina ngu omu biro bit’ari bya hare, e nsi y’e nte egi n’ebaasa kugumaho omw’iziina kwonka. Ahakuba etahiriirwe endwara: okutooreza ebihangire, okureetaire e nte ez’etuura etungire baziragura ngu ziri hakye kuhweraho kimwe. Ekigambo “Enkoora Y’ente” ni tuza kukiganiiraho omu kichweka kya kana.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">E nte ezi turi kugambaho nizo zaabandize omu nsi egi yoona. Ni zeetwa e nya-Nkore nari <em>ensanga</em>. Otungire e nte weena bamweta omuriisa nari omu-nya-nte. Abatungi b’e nya-Nkore abari kurangaanwa munonga, omuri Uganda, nangwa n’omu nsi yoona, ni beetwa <em>Abahima</em> (nari aba<em> Hima</em>). Ti hariho orikubaasa kumanya ebi abaatungire e nte aba bakora nari ebi baamanya byona, yaaba atabandize kwetegyereiza gye amakuru agari omu bigambo bibiri: <em>okuriisa</em> n’<em>okutunga</em>. Kandi nabwo yaaba ateetegyereize “omu-hima” nari “obu-hima” ni ki. Ni ngira ngu hati waatunga ekishushane. Ebi ni bimwe omu bi turi kugambaho omu kitabo eki. Mbwenu nu katukumurikire ebicweka ebirimu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ni tugamba aha ku ragura okuhwaho okw’e nya-Nkore n’akabi k’enjungu. Ni tugamba aha aha nte: obukomooko bwazo n’obuzaare bwaayo n’omuntu. Ni tugamba aha nya-Nkore—oku ziriisibwa, oku zituungwa, amagara gaazo, n’ekyazigumizeho okuhitsya hati. Ni tukushoboororera eki ekigambo okutunga kimanyisa—okutunga nari okutuungwa ebintu eby’omuntu atuungire. Ni tugamba aha “diini” ey’otuungire e nte, n’omutaano oguri rwagati y’okutunga ebintu n’okukanyisa ebintu. Ni tugamba aha Nkoora y’Ente mutebe—e nsi y’e nte omuri Uganda; oburungi bw’Enkoora Y’ente, e nsi y’e nte okugirwa amafa nari amafamu; emyanya-ekozirwe. Ni tugamba aha nsi y’e nte ‘okwoma aha mutwe nk’amasha’. Ni tugamba aha bwata nkamyo. Enkamyo nari okutonyeza ni ki? Amate g’amakama ni ki? Amakamo! Ni tugamba aha kufa kw’emitwarize y’obuzaarwa bw’obuhangwa bw’abanyante, omuziro gw’okwita e nte, endwano omu kubaho kwona, ebyatairweho kuramura okubaho kwona buri obu kushagizana, n’omuramuzi w’okubaho kwona.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ni tugumizamu tugamba aha kubaho okw’enganda ez’ebigira amagara byona (nangwa n’ebitagaine bigira enganda zaabyo!) Oruganda rwo ni ki? Ni tugamba aha bukuru bw’okubaho kw’enganda, sayansi y’eby’enganda z’ebiriho byona, n’aha ky’ataiseiseho enganda z’abantu. Ebyo okubiikira e nte kwo kukiriho; abaana b’abanyante ni baija kukumanya ebyo!? Ni tugamba aha kakwate ak’eby’obuzaarwa bw’abantu bugira omu nganda zaabo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ni tugamba aha kinyaigana eki ekya 21, ekinyaigana ky’ “entunguuka” y’abantu b’e nsi boona. Okutunguuka kwo ni ki? Hariho omutaano rwagati y’ebigambo okutunga n’okutunguuka? <em>Emidigizi</em> (nari emibigizo) ni ki? Ni tugamba aha kabi k’okutooreza ebihangire. Ahakuba twebirwe ngu ‘ameehangye gakaita kanyamunyu’, kandi ‘owakukizire akukiza ekishuba’, kandi ngu ‘eshegu y’enyegano ehonora omunwa’! Ebindi, n’eby’omuhangiso gw’okutungira akatare. Ni tugamba aha mwanya gw’enjungu omu katare k’e nsi yoona, tugamba n’aha mwanya gw’e nya-Nkore omu nsi yoona. Beitushi ‘ekyayega kukama kiraara n’emboha’ bantu-mwe!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Iziina rirungi rigumaho” naryo niturigambaho. Oburungi oburikukirayo! Okwetegyereza ebikuru! Amagara marungi! Itungo erihikire n’okushemererwa! na ‘kabikanye . . . ! egi ei bagira ngu niyo eba ‘kabichwekye’ nari shi ‘. . . kabirandukye’ ni tugigambaho. Ekya mwenda ni ‘…ekyahereruka’; n’eki ekibagira ngu, ‘…n’ekinyubure’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Eky’ahamuheru, ni tu kutondoorera ebigambo bikuru ebirimu emiguutuuro. Yetegyereze ngu omu kitabo eki tukoraise orurimi “oru-nya-nte”. Ni tumanya ngu baingi mwayebirwe orurimi rwaitu oru. Nikwo kugira ngu, buri kigambo eki tuteekateekire ngu n’obaasa okutakimanya nari okutakyetegyereza gye, ni tukishoboororaho omu kichweka eki. Ahakuba ni twenda ngu oyetegyereze gye ebiri omu kitabo eki.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15057006339772374671noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653088225725211064.post-79706690937059634292012-12-21T18:08:00.001+03:002016-03-08T00:29:37.737+03:00A people whose culture prioritizes protection of nature and the environment<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For the Abahima: cows, pastureland and water sources come
first, other things only subsequent!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The <i>aba</i>-<i>Hima*</i> are
an ethnic pastoralist society, especially concentrated in the western part of
Uganda’s cattle corridor. The “Abahima” (also commonly referred to as “Bahima”)
are renowned breeders, keepers and preservers of the Ankole longhorned cattle
for thousands of years. They (Bahima) are an ancient society that inherited
from its progenitors, immense indigenous knowledge (IK) about cattle-keeping
that enabled them to live symbiotically with the longhorned Ankole cows and the
environment whose life cycles they keenly protected without violating its
integrity, for millennia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To-date, the Bahima have spent
thousands of years in the cattle corridor. In Uganda their core centre was in
southwest Uganda’s Nkore Kingdom, now Ankole sub-region. It’s from here that the
Bahima traversed the rest of the cattle corridor in search of better pasture,
water, and comfort for their longhorned cow herds. They moved in search of
pasture, water, <i>et cetera</i>, hence their nomadic culture. If the cows were
not healthy and happy, nothing else would be given priority, not even the
people of one’s household. Other important priorities for the Bahima were
water-wells, grasslands and the general environment. A greener environment was
directly linked to the wellbeing of the cows, thus, Bahima maintained the
quality of the environment or at least did not interfered with biodiversity, if
for anything, the wellbeing of their cows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Anthropologists have described
the Abahima-cow relationship as ‘<i>cattle complex’ (see </i>Melville J.
Herskovits’<b> “</b><i>The Cattle Complex in East Africa” (</i>Also see the <i>Dictionary
of Anthropology</i>). The term cattle complex is defined as an ‘extensive
ritualistic usage of cattle’ ‘emotional attachment to cattle’ and/ or close
‘identification with cattle.’ The strong Abahima-cattle complex, is reflected
in the components of their social, ‘economic’, and spiritual (or ritualistic)
lifestyle. “. . . cattle not only form the economic foundation of Bahima life,
but enter into every aspect of their social lives.” (W. L. S. Mackintosh, <i>Some
Notes on the Abahima and the Cattle Industry of Ankole, </i>1938).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It has long been argued that the
Bahima ‘cattle culture’ is conservative and impregnable and that, that in the
end would spell doom to the “cattle industry,” but apparently facts show that
it’s ‘modernisation’ that’s gradually and surely broken down the Ankoles, the local
environment, the integrity and stability of the ecosystems in the so-called
cattle corridor in East Africa in general.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The components of the culture of
a people who directly live-off the cow and land at its natural’s best is
reflected among the Bahima in elements of conservancy, self-sufficiency, and a
360-degree social congruity with themselves, cows and nature. From nutrition
and aesthetics, “banking” and building, homesteading, feasts and recreation, to
self-esteem and social security, to detergents, medicines and sterilizers, to
bedding and clothing, to the settling of disputes and the giving of gifts, and
dowry, to rituals and religion, and the general preservation of the ecosystem .
. . all the above and more were possible among the Abahima—by Ankole cows for
the continued survival of the culture and the people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“The Bahima can be described as having a strong cattle complex.”<i> </i>(Helen
N. Nakimbugwe<i> </i>et al., in <i>The Role of livestock and breeding:
Community Presentation, </i>2007) We can say also, that Bahima have environmental
protection complex!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">According to President Museveni, “. . . (cows) are like members of our
families and we treat them intimately.” (Yoweri
K. Museveni, Sowing the Mustard Seed, 1997).
In the Book, Lost Mothers: The Cattle Trail” Nasasira Livingstone demonstrates
that that, the Bahima neither did fishing nor ate fish because it was taboo to tampered
with cows’ water (amaizi g’ente). Fishing would definitely make water stagnant.
The Ankole cows are very sensitive in as far as what they eat or drink is
handled. They cannot drink stagnant water. Actually, the watering trough is
worked with scented soils so the cows would not refuse to drink.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Furthermore, to every <i>mu-</i>Hima,
the Ankole cow is mother, the milk cow; and a father, the herd’s <i>bull. </i>The word<i> “Ishe zo” </i>means “father,”
the rest ‘our <i>cousins’ </i>(Museveni, 1997), brothers and sisters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But the longhorned Ankole cow is
now in danger of extinction! The Ankoles are believed to have been extinct by
2027 (20 years from 2007), according to FAO’s The State of the World’s Animal Genetic Resources, published in 2007.
Passing through most of the southern (Uganda’s part) of the cattle corridor,
you’ll find especially, plump and hornless creatures with dappled
black-and-white coats lolling beneath, now declining, flat-topped acacia trees.
They look like the kind of cattle you might encounter in most of North American
ranches (Andrew Rice, The New York Times, January 27, 2008). Thus, the end of
the Ankole cow is at hand and certain; but it’s a critical turning point to the
cattle corridor’s natural biodiversity, the ecosystem, and the survival of a
people whose life depends on these cows and the integrity of the environment. Also,
the Ankoles end with them valuable Bahima indigenous knowledge (IK), but worse
still, the simple self-sufficient lifestyle whose basis is the cow at the center,
and attention to the integrity of the environment. The three, the people, the
cow, and the environment are exposed to critical dangers whose impact is
predictably severe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Breeding standards that made the
Ankole survive for thousands of years have been significantly interfered with
especially in the last half of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. Thus, the
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) warned in September of 2007
at Interlaken, Switzerland that, <i>‘the Ankole cattle could become extinct
from Uganda within 20 years.’</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Therefore, we have to ACT NOW to
CONSERVE <i>“what’s left.”</i> <i>– </i>Dr. Carlos Sere, Director General of
ILRI<i> </i>(2007) because “in many
cases we will not even know the true value of an existing breed until it’s
already gone. This is why we need to act now to conserve what’s left” <i>(</i>FAO,
<i>The State of the World’s Animal Genetic Resources, </i>2007)</span></div>
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Rigumaho Association (RIGUMAHO),with his brothers Enoch, Israel, Paul and moses; and he was the Author of the Cow
Protection Conservancy Uganda (Project), </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Enoch is the predecessor and current Executive Director of the organization.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> A dynamic Community Based Organisation
(CBO) operating in Kiruhura district, establishing conservancies on empty
patches of land to serve as demonstration centers for holistic nature
conservation. Details of what the Rigumaho does can be found on the
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">*<i>Aba Hima (Abahima or Bahima), </i>literary mean,
<i>“of Hima” </i>-- the place known as Hima is at the foothill of the great Mount Rwenzori, which they should be associated with, or
a great ancestor who was known by that name, but who is not clearly known to us through history.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #003300; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; line-height: 36px; text-align: justify;"><b>All in nature must be allowed to continue to be as it should be for the safety of all in our world.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: maroon; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva"; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 21.75px;">For about 8000 years, nature conservation was rendered in the cattle corridor of Uganda (and East Africa in general, 9 countries) by a model that was in symbiotic relationship to the ecosystems, centered on the keeping of the long-horned Ankole cow. That meant a better bio-network that sustained all in the ecosystems for the 8 millenniums. We are reviving the indigenous knowledge (IK) of the ba-</span></span><em style="background-color: white; color: maroon; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.75px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Hima</em><span style="background-color: white; color: maroon; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva"; line-height: 21.75px; text-align: justify;">, renowned breeders and keepers of the Ankole and marrying it with proven scientific methods and the wisdom traditions of some ancient cultures, such as the Vedic, in a model that is intended for the survival and safety of the ecosystems in the cattle corridor.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #003300; line-height: 36px;">Humanity, by manipulating physical laws, has proven itself capable of asserting control over nature to a certain extent, most of the time with adverse effects to itself. For example, the adverse environmental effects that are responsible for the so-called </span><i style="color: #003300; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">global warming</i><span style="color: #003300; line-height: 36px;"> that is threatening all life on the planet, have happened especially within the last 200 years as a result of the </span><i style="color: #003300; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">industrial revolution</i><span style="color: #003300; line-height: 36px;"> that started in Europe. Until bad changes are happening to our environment, industrialization is appealed to by any human societies seeking economic transformation. Unfortunately, all is done in ignorance of the dangers it has. To reverse the bad effects we have meted out to all nature, modern man should respond to the past for methods that worked in preserving our collective environment before the modern era.</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #003300;"><span style="line-height: 36px;">In the face of adverse changes facing the nature and various ecosystems in the cattle corridor in East Africa, which threaten life as evident in the </span></span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #003300;"><span style="line-height: 36px;">threat of extinction of the long-horned Ankole cow</span></span></i><span style="color: #003300;"><span style="line-height: 36px;">, the Rigumaho is reviving the role of the ancient Bahima-cow culture in nature conservation by providing a model that is flexible and secure. The result is a functional bio-network which will continue to sustain all that depends on natural systems in the cattle corridor. We are achieving this by establishing Conservancies on empty parcels of land, and by promoting a basic lifestyle of the people involved in the model, to achieve a greener safe haven for all.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Nasasira Livingstone was the Co-founder of the Iziina Rirungi Rigumaho Association (RIGUMAHO),with his brothers Enoch, Israel, Paul and moses; and he was the Author of the Cow Protection Conservancy Uganda (Project), </span></span></span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Enoch is the predecessor and current Executive Director of the organization.</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> A dynamic Community Based Organisation (CBO) operating in Kiruhura district, establishing conservancies on empty patches of land to serve as demonstration centers for holistic nature conservation. Details of what the Rigumaho does can be found on the website www.rigumaho.org. </span></span></span></div>
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