Market-based Conservation in Melanesia: Contrasting Expectations of Landowners and Conservationists

Henning, Bridget M.

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“…13 When the logging frontier reached Wanang (figure 1) in 2001 a coalition of clans chose to preserve 10 000 ha of forest as communities all around them allowed logging. Clan leaders reached out to a PNG land rights NGO, and through them legally declared a multiclan conservation agreement 14 (Wanang conservation area, http:// baloun. entu.…”

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“…When the logging frontier reached Wanang ( figure 1 ) in 2001 a coalition of clans chose to preserve 10 000 ha of forest as communities all around them allowed logging. Clan leaders reached out to a PNG land rights NGO, and through them legally declared a multiclan conservation agreement 14 (Wanang conservation area, http://baloun.entu.cas.cz/png/wanang/ ) and formed a partnership with New Guinea Binatang Research Centre (BRC), University of Sussex (UoS), University of Minnesota and other international organisations. This has enabled them to protect their forest, while benefitting from both the ecosystem services it provides and additional development advantages accessed through the conservation collaboration.…”

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Health service needs and perspectives of remote forest communities in Papua New Guinea: study protocol for combined clinical and rapid anthropological assessments with parallel treatment of urgent cases

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IntroductionOur project follows community requests for health service incorporation into conservation collaborations in the rainforests of Papua New Guinea (PNG). This protocol is for health needs assessments, our first step in coplanning medical provision in communities with no existing health data.Methods and analysisThe study includes clinical assessments and rapid anthropological assessment procedures (RAP) exploring the health needs and perspectives of partner communities in two areas, conducted over 6 weeks fieldwork. First, in Wanang village (population c.200), which is set in lowland rainforest. Second, in six communities (population c.3000) along an altitudinal transect up the highest mountain in PNG, Mount Wilhelm. Individual primary care assessments incorporate physical examinations and questioning (providing qualitative and quantitative data) while RAP includes focus groups, interviews and field observations (providing qualitative data). Given absence of in-community primary care, treatments are offered alongside research activity but will not form part of the study. Data are collected by a research fellow, primary care clinician and two PNG research technicians. After quantitative and qualitative analyses, we will report: ethnoclassifications of disease, causes, symptoms and perceived appropriate treatment; community rankings of disease importance and service needs; attitudes regarding health service provision; disease burdens and associations with altitudinal-related variables and cultural practices. To aid wider use study tools are in online supplemental file, and paper and ODK versions are available free from the corresponding author.Ethics and disseminationChallenges include supporting informed consent in communities with low literacy and diverse cultures, moral duties to provide treatment alongside research in medically underserved areas while minimising risks of therapeutic misconception and inappropriate inducement, and PNG research capacity building. Brighton and Sussex Medical School (UK), PNG Institute of Medical Research and PNG Medical Research Advisory Committee have approved the study. Dissemination will be via journals, village meetings and plain language summaries.

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Health service needs and perspectives of remote forest communities in Papua New Guinea: study protocol for combined clinical and rapid anthropological assessments with parallel treatment of urgent cases

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“…PNG clans in the lowland forests centred around the village of Wanang have put in place multi-stakeholder agreements preserving their forest homes whilst giving them access to opportunities for development. In 2000 nine clans agreed to preserve 10,000 ha of forest, whilst surrounding communities allowed their lands to be logged (Henning 2015). The subsequent conservation collaboration, the Wanang Conservation Area (WCA) (https ://balou n.entu.cas.…”

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Rationale, experience and ethical considerations underpinning integrated actions to further global goals for health and land biodiversity in Papua New Guinea

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The SURFACES project is integrating action on good health and wellbeing [Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3] and conservation of life on land (SDG 15) in the threatened rainforests of Papua New Guinea (PNG), and mapping evidence of similar projects worldwide. Our approach is framed by Planetary Health, aiming to safeguard both human health and the natural systems that underpin it. Our rationale is demonstrated through a summary of health needs and forest conservation issues across PNG, and how these play out locally. We outline differing types of integrated conservation and health interventions worldwide, providing examples from Borneo, Uganda, India and elsewhere. We then describe what we are doing on-the-ground in PNG, which includes expansion of a rainforest conservation area alongside the establishment of a nurse-staffed aid post, and an educational intervention conceptually linking forest conservation and health. Importantly, we explore some ethical considerations on the conditionality of medical provision and identify key challenges to the successful implementation of such projects. The latter include: avoiding cross-sectoral blindness and achieving genuine interdisciplinary working; the weak evidence base justifying projects; and temporal-spatial issues. We conclude by suggesting how projects integrating actions on health and conservation SDGs can benefit from (and contribute to) the energy of the emerging Planetary Health movement.

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Male social status and its predictors among Garisakang forager-horticulturalists of lowland Papua New Guinea

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2017

Evolution and Human Behavior

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Market-based Conservation in Melanesia: Contrasting Expectations of Landowners and Conservationists

Cited by 8 publications

References 25 publications

Health service needs and perspectives of remote forest communities in Papua New Guinea: study protocol for combined clinical and rapid anthropological assessments with parallel treatment of urgent cases

Health service needs and perspectives of remote forest communities in Papua New Guinea: study protocol for combined clinical and rapid anthropological assessments with parallel treatment of urgent cases

Rationale, experience and ethical considerations underpinning integrated actions to further global goals for health and land biodiversity in Papua New Guinea

Male social status and its predictors among Garisakang forager-horticulturalists of lowland Papua New Guinea

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