Estimating the Cultural Value of Wild Animals in the Qinling Mountains, China: A Choice Experiment

Hou, Yilei; Liu, Tianle; Zheng, Zhao; Wen, Yali

doi:10.3390/ani10122422

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“…With an average of 10 pandas per 100 square kilometers, the wild population density of giant pandas in the Qinling Mountains ranks first in China. It can be seen that biodiversity conservation in Qinling region has achieved remarkable results [ 50 ]. The clear and strict protection policy of the protected area is also one of the reasons for the difference in the perception of ecosystem services between the communities surrounding the protected area and other communities.…”

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Improving Well-Being of Farmers Using Ecological Awareness around Protected Areas: Evidence from Qinling Region, China

Qin

Zhang

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Sustainability of ecosystems is crucial for improving human well-being and sustainably developing human society. In recent years, global attention towards ecosystems and human well-being has been increasing. Exploring and understanding the relationship between ecosystems and human well-being, and establishing the well-being of residents while protecting the ecosystem have become urgent problems. Based on 618 valid samples collected from communities surrounding seven nature reserves in the Qinling Mountains region of China, this study analyzed the impact of ecosystem services on farmers’ well-being from the perspective of their subjective perception of ecosystem services by using multiple linear regression and seemingly unrelated regression methods. The main conclusions are as follows: supply of vegetation and clean water improves farmers’ well-being, improvement of air quality increases farmers’ life satisfaction, and the sense of belonging and tourism value brought by the ecosystem are important factors for farmers’ physical and mental pleasure and economic benefits. Therefore, the following countermeasures and suggestions are proposed: focusing on establishing the ecological well-being of farmers, improve implementation of the services and benefits provided by the ecosystem to farmers, increase publicity and education to improve the protection consciousness of farmers, and improve community participation mechanisms while mobilizing enthusiasm for protection. This article starts from the perspective of farmers’ perception, attempting to explore whether changes in ecosystem service functions will affect farmers’ well-being, so as to provide new opinions and suggestions for improving farmers’ well-being.

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Improving Well-Being of Farmers Using Ecological Awareness around Protected Areas: Evidence from Qinling Region, China

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“…Increasing human-wildlife conflicts have become a common problem faced by protected areas worldwide. Despite the prevalence and severity of wildlife killings, compensation mechanisms for wildlife incidents remain inadequate [43]. These problems exist in Tanzania.…”

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Conflict Governance between Protected Areas and Surrounding Communities: Willingness and Action of Communities — Empirical Evidence from Tanzania

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Zhang

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Under the double pressure of climate change and human activities, the restrictions of conservation policies and the increasing area of overlap between wildlife conservation areas and community living areas have led to increase conflicts and contradictions between nature reserves and neighboring communities. Effective management of such conflicts is particularly important in order to achieve reconciliation of conservation and development. In this study, we take the Mikumi-Selous region in Tanzania, Africa as an example, and through questionnaire surveys and semi-structured interviews, we sort out the current situation of conflicts between nature reserves and communities in the region, as well as summarize the means of conflict governance. In addition, we focus on identifying the various factors affecting community residents' protection willingness and protection action, and further verify the relationships among residents' family characteristics, protection costs and revenue, protection cognition, willingness and action through empirical analysis methods. The results show that residents' protection cognition has a significant positive effect on their willingness to protect and their actions, meanwhile willingness to protect also positively affects residents' protection action. In addition, it was found that the protection cost inhibits residents' willingness and action. Our study focuses on the willingness to participate and action of core stakeholders towards conflict governance from the perspective of community governance, emphasizing the key role of community participation in achieving coordinated development of biodiversity conservation and community. It provides a new perspective for mitigating conservation and development issues.

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“…( 2) Although the governments of these provinces have implemented compensation standards (Supplementary Material Table S2), there is still an urgent need to improve, align, and harmonize compensation schemes between provinces. Moreover, the existing compensation standards need to be more specific regarding the nature of damage or loss [56,128]. (3) Challenges remain to accurately assess the magnitude of crop damage, especially that of cash crops, forest plantations, or aquaculture, since different wildlife species cause different degrees of damage at different growth stages [55].…”

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The Status of Wildlife Damage Compensation in China

Wang,

Wronski,

Yang

2024

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The conservation management of natural ecosystems in China has significantly improved in recent decades, resulting in the effective protection of wildlife and the restoration of habitats. With the rapid growth in wildlife populations and corresponding range expansions, incidents of human–wildlife conflict have notably increased across China. However, only a few studies have paid adequate attention to wildlife damage management and compensation. In our review, we focus on the foremost mitigation measure to combat human–wildlife conflict, i.e., compensation for damage caused by wildlife. We conducted a questionnaire survey and an in-depth review of the literature across 19 Chinese provinces and autonomous regions, resulting in a total of 78 relevant sources. We first introduce the concept of wildlife damage compensation in China, followed by a review of Chinese legislation and policies regarding wildlife damage compensation. We compiled a comprehensive list of nuisance species, and we showcase four case studies in which we exemplarily describe the current situation of wildlife damage compensation. We reflect on difficulties and challenges such as delayed damage assessments or compensation quotas that do not correspond to current market prices. Since local legislation is often insufficient or completely absent, we make suggestions on how to improve existing policies and compensation mechanisms.

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Estimating the Cultural Value of Wild Animals in the Qinling Mountains, China: A Choice Experiment

Cited by 8 publications

References 50 publications

Improving Well-Being of Farmers Using Ecological Awareness around Protected Areas: Evidence from Qinling Region, China

Improving Well-Being of Farmers Using Ecological Awareness around Protected Areas: Evidence from Qinling Region, China

Conflict Governance between Protected Areas and Surrounding Communities: Willingness and Action of Communities — Empirical Evidence from Tanzania

The Status of Wildlife Damage Compensation in China

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