Communities behind the lens: A review and critical analysis of Visual Participatory Methods in biodiversity conservation

Swanson, Shannon Switzer; Ardoin, Nicole M.

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109293

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“…We believe this emerging community of local amateur wildlife videographers can play significant roles in the co‐creation of knowledge that is crucial for understanding and promoting sustainable human–wildlife coexistence. We recommend, as do Swanson and Ardoin (2021), that conservation organizations use visual participatory methods to systematically collect wildlife encounter videos on social media and employ the data to its full potential to inform conservation policy and practice.…”

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Large carnivore encounters through the lens of mobile videos on social media

Gao

Lee

Luo

et al. 2023

Conservat Sci and Prac

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Understanding local encounters with large carnivores is important for promoting sustainable coexistence. The use of smartphones and social media in geographically remote areas offers a novel avenue to study human–wildlife encounters from a local perspective. We conducted a content analysis of mobile videos on social media (n = 207) to characterize human encounters with snow leopards, gray wolves, and brown bears on the Tibetan Plateau in China. We also used ethnographic interviews to understand the backgrounds and motivations of videographers. Results show large carnivore encounters are not necessarily conflictual. Over half of encounters are neutral without observable interference between people and predators. The likelihood of a “negative encounter” is significantly associated with the target species, the distance between the videographer and the animal, the level of human influence in the surroundings, and the presence of other animals (i.e., dogs and livestock). Local Tibetan herders document unusual encounters with carnivores using videos for various reasons, but what is deemed unusual is context‐dependent and fluid. Our study demonstrates that social media videos can provide valuable insights into the diversity and complexity of human–wildlife interactions. We encourage conservationists to develop visual participatory programs to better engage local people in conservation knowledge production.

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Large carnivore encounters through the lens of mobile videos on social media

Gao

Lee

Luo

et al. 2023

Conservat Sci and Prac

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“…Using film and gorillas as a plot device enabled the participants to express contextual nuance to challenges such as marginalisation, modernity and corruption, therefore, helping to articulate Indigenous values that might have otherwise been overlooked or misunderstood by local conservation managers using language-based methods only (Swanson & Ardoin, 2021).…”

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Using participatory video in environmental research

Nawrath,

Fisher,

Arotoma‐Rojas

et al. 2024

People and Nature

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Tackling environmental challenges that face humanity requires us to acknowledge new ways of working and to cross disciplinary boundaries. However, the methodological toolkit used by environmental researchers to explore the human attitudes, knowledge and behaviours that drive global challenges such as biodiversity loss and climate breakdown remains constrained. Here, we describe participatory video, a methodology for capturing and communicating knowledge, which goes beyond interviews, focus groups and participant observation. We draw from the literature and our own experience of conducting participatory video projects in Nepal, Guyana and Peru. We demonstrate the diverse ways in which the methodology can be applied to environmental research and highlight its strengths and limitations. Participatory video provides a more holistic understanding of environmental issues by using multiple types of data, its longer‐term engagement with issues, opening channels of communication between stakeholders, engaging a diversity of knowledge systems and advocating for transformative change. By taking a participatory video approach, environmental researchers may begin to counter commonplace criticisms about lack of diversity and entrenched colonialism. This simultaneously responds to wider calls for environmental research to engage with social justice issues, represent diverse voices, understand different contexts and acknowledge the role of power. Crucially, this helps build trust amongst all those involved. By demonstrating how we have successfully used participatory video in projects in conservation, ecology and climate science, we provide guidance for researchers looking to expand their methodological toolkit. Ultimately, we seek to improve the use of participatory methods to help support communities to tackle the environmental challenges that they face. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Research Methods for Environmental Education

Fang

Hassan

LePage

2022

Sustainable Development Goals Series

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Research methods are the sum of knowledge, plans, strategies, tools, steps, and processes. In this chapter, we seek to understand the “research” nature of Environmental Education (EE), define the scope of research through a systematic investigation process by gathering and understanding past facts and discovering new facts through practical investigations, experiments, and verification methods to increase or modify the contemporary know-how in our environment. After exploring the history of EE, entering quantitative research on EE and qualitative research on EE, we use this chapter to improve the level of thinking of EE theory, using the learning methods of Benjamin S. Bloom, Harold R. Hungerford, and the emotionallearning theory of ABC. We aim to understand the value of post-environmental learning, strengthen our transcendental cognition of animate and inanimate objects by looking at these aspects objectively and have a more general and mature view of the biotic and abioticprocesses that shape the world around us.

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Communities behind the lens: A review and critical analysis of Visual Participatory Methods in biodiversity conservation

Cited by 11 publications

References 78 publications

Large carnivore encounters through the lens of mobile videos on social media

Large carnivore encounters through the lens of mobile videos on social media

Using participatory video in environmental research

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