Primate Conservation in Vietnam: Toward a Holistic Environmental Narrative

Workman, Catherine

doi:10.1525/aa.2004.106.2.346

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“…The issue of cross‐ or multidisciplinary training also relates to why Vietnam should but does not yet follow the shifting trend in conservation from conservation biology toward a broader view of biodiversity conservation, or conservation anthropology, that requires a multidisciplinary panel of approaches, skills, and paradigms. Vietnam cannot easily follow this trend because of inefficient capacity and institutional boundaries, which is a shame because Vietnam is an ideal research landscape to explore emerging multidisciplinary topics in primatology such as ethnoprimatology and human primate interaction (Fuentes ; Riley ; Workman ), ethical issues in vaccination and laboratory primates, wildlife trade, genetics of primate conservation, and so on.…”

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Development of Primatology and Primate Conservation in Vietnam: Challenges and Prospects

Hoàng

2016

American Anthropologist

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WHO IS A VIETNAMESE PRIMATOLOGIST?Many introductory textbooks for biological or physical anthropology include primatology as a branch of biological anthropology, and in higher education programs in anthropology in many countries, including the United States, primatology is taught as such. In Vietnam, there is no formal training program in primatology or biological anthropology, and many scientists question why primatology should be taught in an anthropology department, having been trained instead in a vertebrate zoology or biology department. To gain a broader understanding among Vietnamese scholars about the definition of a primatologist in Vietnam and whether there might be a need for specific training programs related to primatology, I interviewed and reviewed the work of several Vietnamese scholars who do research on primates or were former primate conservation workshop trainees.Nguyẽn XuânDȃ . ng (e-mail, July 3, 2015), a senior mammal researcher working at the Department of Zoology at the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources (IEBR) who considers himself a Vietnamese primatologist, defines primatology "simply . . . as science of biology, ecology and conservation of primates." According to Nguyẽn XuânDȃ . ng, whoever studies primates should be considered a primatologist. In particular, he stated that Vietnamese primatologists are researchers who publish about the biology, ecology, or conservation of primates in both national and international journals. His view favors research output as the primary measure in defining a primatologist in Vietnam rather than formal or informal education in primatology.Indeed, most primatologists in Vietnam lack formal training in primatology, and primate research combines diverse methods beyond those with a solely primate focus, such as comprehensive biodiversity surveys, applied biological research, environmental impact assessments, ecological planning for the establishment of a protected area, and so on. Vietnamese primatologists have formal training in mammalogy or zoology, ecology, archaeology, or environmental science. This phenomenon is not necessarily unique to Vietnam and may relate to contemporary discussions in

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Development of Primatology and Primate Conservation in Vietnam: Challenges and Prospects

Hoàng

2016

American Anthropologist

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“…Vietnam is known for diverse ecosystems and cultures, a complex sociopolitical history and, to primatologists, as a globally important country for primate conservation [Workman, 2004;Sterling et al, 2006;Thạch, 2016]. In comparison with other countries in mainland South-East Asia, Vietnam has the highest number of endemic primate taxa as well as the most primate taxa overall and the highest number of globally threatened primate taxa [Blair et al, 2011;IUCN, 2017].…”

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Slow Loris Trade in Vietnam: Exploring Diverse Knowledge and Values

Thạch

Lê²,

Vu³

et al. 2018

IJFP

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Wildlife trade can present a major threat to primate populations. In Vietnam, slow lorises (genus Nycticebus) are subject to local, regional and international demand for diverse uses including as medicine, as meat and for pets. Ethnographic approaches explore the nuances of human-primate interactions in complex sociocultural contexts. We combined ethnographic interviews of key informants with information from questionnaires, focus groups and a movie broadcast on Vietnamese television to explore diverse knowledge and values related to slow lorises and their use in trade in Vietnam. We infer prices, uses and networks for expanding targeted regional and international markets as compared to the opportunistic local one. We highlight key findings related to gendered knowledge about slow lorises and more-than-human ontologies of slow lorises as active participants in human-slow loris interactions. We suggest that conservation efforts should pay attention to the clarification of vernacular names, and use names that highlight ecological or behavioural qualities of slow lorises, rather than other names that could be confused with medicinal remedies. Our results confirm the dynamic complexity of trade in Vietnam, highlighting the importance of ethnographic methods to explore diverse knowledge and values for place-based or site-appropriate conservation management of primates and other highly traded taxa.

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“…Qualitative analysis should be considered as equally critical to quantitative modeling in some cases, especially given the importance of considering cultural complexity toward an understanding of primate trade (Alves et al, ; Workman, ). Under an anthropological lens we can examine and question qualitatively a key assumption of scalability and nestedness of cultural systems from local up to regional scales (Tsing, ).…”

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Applying systems thinking to inform studies of wildlife trade in primates

Blair

Lê

Thạch³

et al. 2017

American J Primatol

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Wildlife trade presents a major threat to primate populations, which are in demand from local to international scales for a variety of uses from food and traditional medicine to the exotic pet trade. We argue that an interdisciplinary framework to facilitate integration of socioeconomic, anthropological, and biological data across multiple spatial and temporal scales is essential to guide the study of wildlife trade dynamics and its impacts on primate populations. Here, we present a new way to design research on wildlife trade in primates using a systems thinking framework. We discuss how we constructed our framework, which follows a social-ecological system framework, to design an ongoing study of local, regional, and international slow loris (Nycticebus spp.) trade in Vietnam. We outline the process of iterative variable exploration and selection via this framework to inform study design. Our framework, guided by systems thinking, enables recognition of complexity in study design, from which the results can inform more holistic, site-appropriate, and effective trade management practices. We place our framework in the context of other approaches to studying wildlife trade and discuss options to address foreseeable challenges to implementing this new framework.

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Primate Conservation in Vietnam: Toward a Holistic Environmental Narrative

Cited by 10 publications

References 6 publications

Development of Primatology and Primate Conservation in Vietnam: Challenges and Prospects

Development of Primatology and Primate Conservation in Vietnam: Challenges and Prospects

Slow Loris Trade in Vietnam: Exploring Diverse Knowledge and Values

Applying systems thinking to inform studies of wildlife trade in primates

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