What Does Conservation Mean for Women? the Case of the Cantanhez Forest National Park

Costa, Susana; Casanova, Catarina; Lee, Phyllis C.

doi:10.4103/cs.cs_14_91

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“…Women in Assam, India, were antagonistic to rhesus macaques because of interruption to household chores and children's education when they and their children had to guard crops when men were absent (Talukdar & Gupta, ). In addition to cash crop loss, women in Guinea‐Bissau, West Africa, expressed a negative attitude to the Western chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes verus ), fearing for their safety after experiencing physical attacks by this species (Costa, Casanova, & Lee, ).…”

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Understanding primate‐human interaction: Socioeconomic correlates of local awareness and attitude toward the endangered golden langur Trachypithecus geei (Khajuria, 1956) in Bhutan

Thinley

Rajaratnam

Tighe

et al. 2019

American J Primatol

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Despite the golden langur's (Trachypithecus geei) endangered and totally protected status, local awareness and attitude toward this species is poorly understood. We investigated local awareness and attitude in Bhutan by interviewing 1,143 households in the districts of Dagana, Sarpang, Trongsa, Tsirang, and Zhemgang, and analyzing data through a conditional inference tree analysis. Most respondents were not aware of the golden langur's nationally protected (53%; n = 604) and globally endangered status (64%; n = 730), but their location of residence (inside/outside a protected area; p < .001) and education level (p < .001) significantly influenced awareness. The majority of respondents (87%; n = 999) liked the golden langur but

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Understanding primate‐human interaction: Socioeconomic correlates of local awareness and attitude toward the endangered golden langur Trachypithecus geei (Khajuria, 1956) in Bhutan

Thinley

Rajaratnam

Tighe

et al. 2019

American J Primatol

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“…For example, they found that Namibian women did not focus on the costs associated with livestock predation because men dealt with livestock, but women were concerned about the loss of field crops because they fed their families. Similarly, Costa et al (2017) found that women in Guineas-Bissau were more worried than men about crops damaged by wildlife because socially they were expected to feed their families.…”

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Gender Concerns When Noah the Economist Ranks Biodiversity Protection Policies

Martin

2019

Social Sciences

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Because the funds to protect biodiversity are very limited, biodiversity protection policies are prioritized using the Noah’s Ark perspective. I discuss how gender affects Noah’s assessment of key elements of his ranking: Discounting, changes in total economic value, marginal costs, changes in ecological value, and the probability of policy success. This incremental approach makes visible the breadth of the mechanisms by which gender differentiated social constructs interact to affect Noah in a richly complex manner.

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“…Forests are multi-functional ecosystems which provide diverse goods and services, including intrinsic, economic, cultural and aesthetic values essential for socio-economic well-being, particularly to the forest adjacent community (de Groot et al, 2016;Costa et al, 2017). Although forest contribute significantly towards the diversification of livelihoods of communities adjacent to forest ecosystems, inadequate community involvement in the management and governance of the forest resources, has been identified as a major cause of the escalation of ecosystem destruction (Agrawal, 2009;Biedenweg, 2012;Mogoi et al, 2012;Tesfaye, 2017).…”

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“…In sub-Saharan Africa, at least 21 countries have embraced various participatory approaches to natural resources management (Langat et al, 2016;Tesfaye, 2017). In some of these cases, the devolution of forest management appear to facilitate improved forest conservation (Lund and Treue, 2008;Costa et al 2017), though the picture seems uncertain with respect to livelihood impacts (Lund and Treue, 2008;Mogoi et al, 2012;Matiku et al, 2013;Langat et al, 2016). In tropical countries, the diversity of stakeholders depending on forests with different interests makes sustainable forest management difficult to achieve.…”

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Effect of forest management approach on household economy and community participation in conservation: A case of Aberdare Forest Ecosystem, Kenya

Wambugu¹,

Obwoyere²,

Kirui³

2018

Int. J. Biodivers. Conserv.

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Forest ecosystems are important for ecological and socioeconomic wellbeing, particularly for diversification of the livelihoods of adjacent communities. The forest management approach applied in an ecosystem influences availability, access and utilisation of forest products, and community participation in conservation. This study examined the effect of forest management approach on households' economy and participation in forest management. A random sample of 202 households adjacent to Aberdare forest ecosystem was selected for characterisation and interviews using semistructured questionnaires. Data collected were analysed using Chi-square test, Spearman's rho correlation and multinomial logistic regression. Although the benefits varied with management approach, the majority of the households indicated the forest was beneficial as only 6% reported no benefits. There was a significant association between forest management approach and households' sources of food (χ² = 27.704, p < 0.001), socioeconomic status (χ² = 20.194, p < 0.001) importance of forest (χ² = 11.863, p < 0.001), forest dependence (χ² = 53.580, p < 0.001) and participation in forest management (χ² = 17.551, p < 0.001) at α = 0.05. The factors that significantly influenced the regression model included households' dependence on the forest, socioeconomic status and participation in forest management where R 2 was 0.797. These findings depicted that when ecosystems made no substantial contributions to livelihoods, their value and the level of community participation in conservation was lower.

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What Does Conservation Mean for Women? the Case of the Cantanhez Forest National Park

Cited by 18 publications

References 41 publications

Understanding primate‐human interaction: Socioeconomic correlates of local awareness and attitude toward the endangered golden langur Trachypithecus geei (Khajuria, 1956) in Bhutan

Understanding primate‐human interaction: Socioeconomic correlates of local awareness and attitude toward the endangered golden langur Trachypithecus geei (Khajuria, 1956) in Bhutan

Gender Concerns When Noah the Economist Ranks Biodiversity Protection Policies

Effect of forest management approach on household economy and community participation in conservation: A case of Aberdare Forest Ecosystem, Kenya

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