Table 2 Harvester’s perceptions on whether availability of Encosternum delegorguei had increased or decreased from 2002 to 2007
|  | Mapulana (n = 37) | Vhavenda (n = 37) | Bolobedu (n = 29) | Total (n = 103) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % |
Increased | 4 | 11 | 6 | 16 | 10 | 34 | 20 | 19 |
Don’t know | 20 | 54 | 14 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 33 |
Decreased | 13 | 35 | 17 | 46 | 19 | 66 | 49 | 48 |
Top three reasons given for decrease | Don’t know (54%), drought (22%), removal of plantations (8%) | Don’t know (46%), establishment of crops (16%) or plantations (16%) | Drought (59%), fire (21%), no other reason given | Don’t know (33%), drought (27%), fire (7%) | ||||