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De Vos, Alta; Percy FitzPatrick Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Rhodes University, South Africa; a.devos@ru.ac.za; Cumming, Graeme S.; Percy FitzPatrick Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa; ARC Centre of Excellence in Coral Reef Studies, Townsville, Queensland, Australia; graeme.cumming@jcu.edu.au; Cumming, David H. M.; Percy FitzPatrick Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Tropical Resource Ecology Programme, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe; cumming@icon.co.zw; Ament, Judith M.; Percy FitzPatrick Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa; judith.ament@uct.ac.za; Baum, Julia; Percy FitzPatrick Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa; jubaum5@gmail.com; Clements, Hayley S; Percy FitzPatrick Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa; clementshayley@gmail.com; Grewar, John D; Western Cape Government, Department of Agriculture, Elsenburg, South Africa; JohnG@elsenburg.com; Maciejewski, Kristine; Percy FitzPatrick Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Krismacski@gmail.com; Moore, Christine; Percy FitzPatrick Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa; School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK; christine.moore@ouce.ox.ac.uk. |
It is extremely important for biodiversity conservation that protected areas are resilient to a range of potential future perturbations. One of the least studied influences on protected area resilience is that of disease. We argue that wildlife disease (1) is a social-ecological problem that must be approached from an interdisciplinary perspective; (2) has the potential to lead to changes in the identity of protected areas, possibly transforming them; and (3) interacts with conservation both directly (via impacts on wild animals, livestock, and people) and indirectly (via the public, conservation management, and veterinary responses). We use southern African protected areas as a case study to test a framework for exploring the connections between... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight |
Palavras-chave: Disease; Identity; Pathogens; Protected areas; Resilience; Social-ecological systems; Southern Africa. |
Ano: 2016 |
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Niedziałkowski, Krzysztof; Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland; Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, UK ; kniedz@zbs.bialowieza.pl; Paavola, Jouni; Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, UK; J.Paavola@leeds.ac.uk; Jędrzejewska, Bogumiła; Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland; bjedrzej@zbs.bialowieza.pl. |
According to the new conservation paradigm, protected areas should contribute to the socioeconomic development of host communities, and the latter ought to be included in participatory decision making concerning these areas. However, the understanding of participation is ambiguous and there are at least three major approaches, which may have different impacts on the governance of protected areas. We examine the case of the Białowieża Primeval Forest in order to trace the effectiveness of changing modes of participation as well as to discuss the limitations and problems of public participation. Between 1918 and 2010, the role of local authorities changed from no influence to limited control over decision making regarding designation and... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Biał Owież A; Biodiversity conservation; Governance; National park; Participation; Poland; Protected areas. |
Ano: 2012 |
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Gandiwa, Edson; Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands; Scientific Services, Gonarezhou National Park, Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority, Chiredzi, Zimbabwe; egandiwa@gmail.com; Lokhorst, Anne M.; Knowledge, Technology and Innovation Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands; annemarike.lokhorst@wur.nl; Prins, Herbert H.T.; Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands; School of Life Sciences, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Westville Campus, Durban, South Africa; Herbert.Prins@wur.nl; Leeuwis, Cees; Communication and Innovation Studies Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands; Cees.Leeuwis@wur.nl. |
Human-wildlife conflicts are a global problem, and are occurring in many countries where human and wildlife requirements overlap. Conflicts are particularly common near protected areas where societal unrest is large. To ease conflict, integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) have been implemented. The Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE) is an example of an ICDP. We hypothesized that (i) a higher perceived effectiveness of CAMPFIRE would be associated with a decline in human-wildlife conflicts, and (ii) local communities with higher perceived effectiveness of CAMPFIRE programs would have more favorable attitudes towards problematic wild animals. Four focus group discussions and interviews with 236... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Attitudes; Benefits; Human-wildlife conflicts; Integrated conservation and development projects; Perception; Protected areas. |
Ano: 2013 |
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Golden Kroner, Rachel E.; Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University; Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science, Conservation International; rachelelizabethgolden@gmail.com; Krithivasan, Roopa; Department of Geography, Clark University; rkrithivasan@clarku.edu; Mascia, Michael B.; Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science, Conservation International; m.mascia@conservation.org. |
Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD) has been documented worldwide, but its impacts on biodiversity are poorly understood. To fill this knowledge gap, we reviewed historical documents to identify legal changes that altered the boundaries of Yosemite National Park. We identified two downsizes and five additions between 1905 and 1937 that reduced the size of Yosemite National Park by 30%. To examine the effects of these downsizing events on habitat fragmentation by roads, we compared protected, never-protected, and downsized lands at three spatial scales using four habitat fragmentation metrics: road density, fragment (land surrounded by roads) area-to-perimeter ratio, fragment area, and fragment density. In general, lands that... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Downsizing; Governance; Habitat fragmentation; PADDD; Protected areas; Yosemite National Park. |
Ano: 2016 |
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Izurieta, Arturo; Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University; arturo_izurieta@hotmail.com; Sithole, Bevlyne; Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University;; Stacey, Natasha; Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University; natasha.stacey@cdu.edu.au; Hunter-Xenie, Hmalan; Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University;; Campbell, Bruce; Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University;; Donohoe, Paul; Northern Land Council;; Brown, Jessie; Wardaman Traditional Owner;; Wilson, Lincoln; Department of Natural Resources, Environment, The Arts and Sport/NT Parks and Wildlife Service;. |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Evaluation; Indigenous people; Joint management; Management effectiveness; Monitoring; Participation; Partnership; Protected areas. |
Ano: 2011 |
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Booth, Josephine E; Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield; Sheffield Hallam University; Josephine.booth@shu.ac.uk; Gaston, Kevin J; Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield; k.j.gaston@sheffield.ac.uk; Armsworth, Paul R; Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield; University of Tennessee; p.armsworth@utk.edu. |
Public support for protected areas depends, in part, upon clear demonstrations of the importance of the ecosystem services provided by these areas. However, only a limited number of studies have examined the value of protected areas in providing these services, and even less work has assessed how equitably these benefits are distributed across society. We used on-site surveys to characterize people who derived recreational benefit from a set of areas in the United Kingdom that were originally protected for their conservation value. We found that an unrepresentative subset of society enjoyed this benefit. Site visitor populations were biased towards older people and men, and minority groups were starkly underrepresented, comprising only 1% of overall... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Ecosystem services; Protected areas; Recreation; Recreational benefits; Sites of Special Scientific Interest; SSSI; Social inclusion; Surveys. |
Ano: 2010 |
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Kometter, Roberto F; Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina; kometter@lamolina01.lamolina.edu.pe; Martinez, Martha; Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, Conservation International; m.martinez@conservation.org; Blundell, Arthur G; EGAT Forest Team, USAID; art.blundell@alum.dartmouth.org; Gullison, Raymond E; Hardner & Gullison Associates; ted@hg-llc.com; Steininger, Marc K; Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, Conservation International; m.steininger@conservation.org; Rice, Richard E; Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, Conservation International; d.rice@conservation.org. |
Although bigleaf mahogany [Swietenia macrophylla King (Meliaceae)] is the premier timber species of Latin America, its exploitation is unsustainable because of a pattern of local depletion and shifting supply. We surveyed experts on the status of mahogany in Bolivia and Peru, the world's past and present largest exporters. Bolivia no longer has commercially viable mahogany (trees > 60 cm diameter at breast height) across 79% of its range. In Peru, mahogany's range has shrunk by 50%, and, within a decade, a further 28% will be logged out. Approximately 15% of the mahogany range in these two countries is protected, but low densities and illegal logging mean that this overestimates the extent of mahogany under protection. The international community... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Bolivia; Latin America; Peru; Expert survey; Forest conservation; Forest inventories; Forest regeneration; Mahogany; Protected areas; Questionnaire; Range; Sustainable forestry. |
Ano: 2004 |
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Shen, Xiaoli; Center for Nature and Society, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China; xlshen.pku@gmail.com; Lu, Zhi; Center for Nature and Society, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China;ShanShui Conservation Center, Beijing, 100871, China; luzhi@pku.edu.cn; Li, Shengzhi; ShanShui Conservation Center, Beijing, 100871, China;; Chen, Nyima; ShanShui Conservation Center, Beijing, 100871, China;. |
Sacred sites are based on indigenous culture and traditional practices that value land and lives, and are considered to be of significant contribution in biodiversity conservation. However, there is a lack of understanding about how these traditional systems function (i.e., the distribution and size of sacred sites, their management and current status), especially for those sites within the Tibetan region. From 2004 to 2007, we investigated 213 sacred mountains, a major form of Tibetan sacred site, in western China, and documented their traditional management system. We mapped 154 sacred mountains within a GIS and estimated their average size was 25.9 km2 (range 0.6–208.4 km2), with sacred mountains of greater religious significance covering... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Informal institutions; Participatory mapping; Protected areas; Tibetan sacred sites; Traditional land management. |
Ano: 2012 |
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Borie, Maud; UMR 5175 CEFE CNRS, Montpellier; maud.borie@gmail.com; Mathevet, Raphaël; UMR 5175 CEFE CNRS, Montpellier; raphael.mathevet@cefe.cnrs.fr; Ring, Irene; UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research; irene.ring@ufz.de; Thompson, John D.; UMR 5175 CEFE CNRS, Montpellier; john.thompson@cefe.cnrs.fr. |
Biodiversity payments have become an increasingly proposed tool to promote conservation measures. An unexplored issue concerns the potential role of fiscal transfers between the state and infra-national authorities potentially as direct financial incentives for biodiversity conservation. We explore how protected areas can be taken into account in a redistributive fiscal transfer system between the state and local authorities, i.e., municipalities. Different simulations were made in the Mediterranean region of southern France, a major biodiversity hotspot subject to increasing threats. We examined two methods for fiscal transfer: first, a “per hectare” method, based on the surface of the protected area within the boundaries of the... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article |
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity; Conservation policy; Ecological solidarity; Fiscal transfer; Protected areas; Public funding. |
Ano: 2014 |
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Schunko, Christoph; Department of Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU); christoph.schunko@boku.ac.at; Corbera, Esteve; Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Department of Economics and Economic History, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; esteve.corbera@uab.cat. |
Indigenous and rural communities have developed strategies aimed at supporting their livelihoods and protecting biodiversity. Motivational factors underlying these local conservation strategies, however, are still a largely neglected topic. We aimed to enrich the conceptualization of community-based conservation by exploring trigger events and motivations that induce local people to be engaged in practical institutional arrangements for successful natural resource management and biodiversity conservation. By examining the history and development of three community conservation initiatives in Brazil, Mexico, and Bolivia, we have illustrated and discussed two main ways of understanding community-based conservation from the interaction between extrinsic and... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity; Commons; Governance; Latin America; Protected areas. |
Ano: 2015 |
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In the mega-diverse country Peru, a resource intensive development model collides with the interest of conserving biodiversity. Peruvian biodiversity experts have developed different lines of argumentation as to how to integrate conservation into the sustainable development of their country. Applying grounded theory, I define five groups of conservation narratives based on the analysis of 72 qualitative interviews with experts working in areas of biodiversity conservation. I have labeled them: biodiversity protectionists, biodiversity traditionalists, biodiversity localists, biodiversity pragmatists, and biodiversity capitalists. These groups are each discussed in connection with what they have to say about biodiversity in relation to human life,... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Environmental discourses; Extractivism; Latin America; Natural capital; Political ecology; Protected areas; Sustainability. |
Ano: 2016 |
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Bhagwat, Shonil A; Natural History Museum, London; S.Bhagwat@nhm.ac.uk; Kushalappa, Cheppudira G; University of Agricultural Sciences College of Forestry; kushalcg@sancharnet.in; Williams, Paul H; Natural History Museum, London; P.Williams@nhm.ac.uk; Brown, Nick D; University of Oxford; nick.brown@plants.ox.ac.uk. |
Although it is widely believed that an important function of protected areas is to conserve species that are unable to survive elsewhere, there are very few empirical studies in which a comparison is made between biodiversity of protected areas and that of the cultivated landscape surrounding them. We examined the diversity of trees, birds, and macrofungi at 58 sites in three land-use types in a tree-covered landscape in Kodagu district in the Western Ghats of India. Ten forest reserve sites in the formal protected area, and 25 sacred groves and 23 coffee plantations in the neighboring cultivated landscape were sampled. A total of 215 tree, 86 bird, and 163 macrofungus species were recorded. The forest reserve had a large number of trees that were... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity conservation; Endemic and threatened species; Medicinal plants; Non-timber forest products; Protected areas; Sacred groves; Western Ghats of India. |
Ano: 2005 |
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