Combining Econegotiations and Threat Reduction Assessments to estimate success of conservation: lessons learned in the black-faced lion tamarin conservation program

Nascimento, Alexandre Túlio Amaral; Nali, Camila; Schmidlin, Lucia Agathe Juliana; Marques, Rosangela Brandão; Rodeano, Maria; Padua, Suzana M.; Valladares‐Pádua, Cláudio; Prado, Fabiana; Souza, Maria das Graças de; Fonseca, Gustavo

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“…Evaluations of conservation education programs in general, and small‐scale conservation education programs specifically, are rarely published, despite the value and importance of doing so (Lukas et al, 2019). Publication has provided clarity of direction and focus on our project's mission (Nascimento et al, 2016), which is to supplement the education of people living in Southern Madagascar with creative educational projects on the topic of biodiversity and conservation with the ultimate goal of protecting lemurs and their habitat. I recommend consulting experts in the field of conservation education and using the growing literature focusing on conservation education projects and their lessons learned when planning any initiatives.…”

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“…From early on in the Red Book Challenge program design, local people have been sought out to be leaders in the design and implementation of conservation education, although there is a great opportunity to improve in this area. Another area of improvement will be ongoing work to understand more fully the social, cultural and economic profile of Madagascar's South (Nascimento et al, 2016) and the cultural biases that impact the program approaches (Bezanson et al, 2022). Additionally, our organization's creative projects of the past-mainly the coloring book and documentary film, were projects headed by creative talents from North America.…”

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Nine years of the Red Book Challenge conservation education in Southern Madagascar: What we have learned

Walker-Bolton¹

2022

American J Primatol

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Red Book Challenge Conservation Education Madagascar is a small-scale, arts-based, conservation education initiative founded in 2012 by two Lemur catta researchers working in the Berenty Reserve and incorporated as a nonprofit organization in 2022. The target demographic is children and adults living in Southern Madagascar. The Red Book Challenge program initially consisted of providing supplementary conservation education through classroom visits at the elementary schools in Berenty village. The school children created small conservation booklets with red covers, giving the project its name. Today, the program has expanded to include the village of Besakoa Ambany and the city of Fort Dauphin, while remaining a smallscale program. To date, the Red Book Challenge has completed seven outreach projects aimed at generating goodwill in the local community, community development, and conservation education. This retrospective analysis functions as a formative evaluation of the feasibility of future projects. This paper will focus on four projects that fall under the category of conservation education: (1) Using films to promote conservation topics (2) field trips to observe lemurs (3) a Malagasy-run conservation club, and (4) a coloring book. These projects have been funded through small grants from the International Conservation Fund of Canada, and private donations. This paper includes the Red Book Challenge's history, results from the participant surveys, and the successes and failures in each stage of our work. Six shifts in thinking occurred: (1) use of Malagasy talent to create educational conservation films (2) more formal assessment before and after field trips (3) improvement of recruitment, training and supervision of staff to keep the conservation club self-sufficient (4) enlistment of Malagasy illustrators and adaptation of environmentally friendly printing practices for the coloring books (5) disseminate study outcomes to international community though publication (6) reframe the program from spare-time volunteer work to full-time research work.

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Nine years of the Red Book Challenge conservation education in Southern Madagascar: What we have learned

Walker-Bolton¹

2022

American J Primatol

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“…A produção e inovação científica e tecnológica têm se mostrado capazes de embasar estratégias sustentáveis, integrando benefícios econômicos com conservação da biodiversidade e equidade social (Nascimento et al, 2016b;Azevedo-Santos et al, 2017). Porém, tomadores de decisão e agentes políticos subutilizam a ciência e inovação tecnológica como ferramentas para governança mais eficaz e comprometida com os desafios complexos e interdependentes da atualidade.…”

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EIBEA 2019. Encontro Iberoamericano de Estudos do Antropoceno. Atas

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Combining Econegotiations and Threat Reduction Assessments to estimate success of conservation: lessons learned in the black-faced lion tamarin conservation program

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Nine years of the Red Book Challenge conservation education in Southern Madagascar: What we have learned

Nine years of the Red Book Challenge conservation education in Southern Madagascar: What we have learned

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