IUCN SULi Digest
September + October 2022
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SULi affiliated publications!
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People Not Poaching (2022) Engaging communities to tackle illegal wildlife trade - lessons from Southeast Asia, South America and sub-Saharan Africa. IIED and IUCN SULi, London. Available here (Open access)
This report presents evidence and eight key lessons from a diverse set of community-focused interventions to reduce illegal wildlife trade. It shows that there are many commonalities between the factors that have led to, or limited, success across these interventions.
Varghese A, Oommen M, Paul M and S Nath (2022) Conservation through sustainable use: Lessons from India. Routledge, India. DOI: 10.4324/9781003343493
This collection of case studies on sustainable use practices throughout India aims to identify the policies, management strategies, and knowledge contexts that contribute to resource use without damaging biological diversity.
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1. Clements H, et al (2022) Lessons from COVID-19 for wildlife ranching in a changing world. Nature Sustainability. DOI: 10.1038/s41893-022-00961-1 (Open access)
To understand socio-economic responses of diverse wildlife working lands to COVID-19, the authors surveyed owners and managers of private wildlife ranches, agricultural farms and public protected areas in South Africa. Most protected areas lost more than 75% of their revenues during 2020, while most agricultural farms lost less than 10%.
2. Janssen J (2022) Thailand's online reptile market decreases but shifts toward native species during COVID-19. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity. DOI: 10.1016/j.japb.2022.08.002 (Open access)
The author monitors social media platforms in Thailand during the pandemic and compares this with data obtained in 2016, finding a significant reduction of lizards and snakes offered for sale on social media, compared with before the pandemic.
3. Khan A, Hossain E, Rahman T and M Dey (2022) COVID-19's effects and adaptation strategies in fisheries and aquaculture sector: Empirical evidence from Bangladesh. Aquaculture. DOI: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2022.738822 (Open access)
This article examines the impact of COVID-19 on fish farms, fishers, and traders in Bangladesh. The authors report that production costs have increased during COVID-19 because of high input prices
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News articles, blogs etc.
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4. Danielsen F, et al (2022) Community monitoring of natural resource systems and the environment. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-environ-012220-022325 (Open access)
The authors use the literature on community monitoring (CM) of the environment from the past five years to define CM, summarise the advantages and shortcomings of CM, situate CM of the environment in relation to other applications where it has been tried, explore how CM of the environment can be more effective, and discuss how the field is likely to evolve.
5. Kansky R (2022) Unpacking the challenges of wildlife governance in community-based conservation programs to promote human–wildlife coexistence. Conservation Science and Practice. DOI: 10.1111/csp2.12791 (Open access)
To better understand how CBNRM governance systems enable or hinder human–wildlife coexistence, the author implements an 11-weeks participatory co-learning programme in conservancies in the Zambezi region of Namibia.
6. Karres N, et al (2022) How effective is community-based management of freshwater resources? A review. Journal of Environmental Management. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116161 (Open access)
The authors examine peer-reviewed literature on community-based management of freshwater resources to understand and assess project contexts and outcomes. Their review indicates that studies of freshwater community-based management are limited in number and representativeness.
7. Rabbitt S, Tibbetts I, Albert S and I Lilley (2022) Testing a model to assess women’s inclusion and participation in community-based resource management in Solomon Islands. Maritime Studies. DOI: 10.1007/s40152-022-00282-1 (Open access)
Through a case study in three communities in Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands, the authors present a participation model for assessing gender inclusivity in community-based fisheries management. Their results show that gender parity is not a reliable indicator of gender equity.
8. Riat E, Ndegwa J and C Omanwa (2022) Effect of community participation on financial sustainability of community conservancies in northern Kenya. African Journal of Emerging Issues. Available here (Open access)
This paper seeks to determine the effect of community participation on financial sustainability of community conservancies in Northern Kenya, concluding that community participation positively contributes to enhanced financial sustainability.
9. Snorek J and D Bolger (2022) Can the center hold? Boundary actors and marginality in a community-based natural resource management network. Ecology and Society. 10.5751/ES-13512-270341 (Open access)
Using social network analysis to visualise interactions between the Topnaar community and CBNRM institutional actors in Namibia’s Namib-Naukluft and Dorob National Parks, the authors find a number of individuals well-positioned to serve as boundary actors.
10. Wenborn M, et al (2022) Lessons on the community conservancy model for wildlife protection in Namibia. The Journal of Environment & Development. DOI: 10.1177/10704965221121026 (Open access)
The authors review the conservancy model in northwest Namibia to identify lessons for other countries. They confirm that success factors for conservancies include investment and revenues, strong governance and support from NGOs.
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News articles, blogs etc.
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11. Amazon community steps in to protect a reserve the government won’t -> With laws and court decisions to protect the reserve going largely ignored by the government, a local organisation has taken on the task of protecting two iconic and threatened local species: the Amazon turtle and the arapaima.
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12. Arowosafe F (2022) Impacts of ecotourism on local communities of Mole National Park, Ghana and Kainji Lake National Park, Nigeria: A comparative study. Research Developments in Arts and Social Studies. DOI: 10.9734/bpi/rdass/v7/7145F
The authors assess the perceived positive and negative impacts of ecotourism on the livelihood of adjacent communities of Kainji Lake National Park and Mole National Park. The increase in the conservation of biodiversity at both parks is found to have the most favourable effects on how people perceived the impact of the ecotourism development.
13. Aryal B, Chhetri V and P Khanal (2022) Perception of local people and visitors towards ecotourism development in Jagadishpur reservoir. International Journal of Environment. DOI: 10.3126/ije.v11i2.44768 (Open access)
This study attempts to identify prospective ecotourism products and to assess local and visitor perceptions towards ecotourism development in the Jagadishpur reservoir, Nepal.
14. De Zoysa M (2022) Ecotourism development and biodiversity conservation in Sri Lanka: Objectives, conflicts and resolutions. Open Journal of Ecology. DOI: 10.4236/oje.2022.1210037 (Open access)
This paper describes conservation objectives in terms of preserving and fostering biodiversity, habitat restoration and managing biodiversity, and making value for natural assets through ecotourism activities.
15. Hanson J, Schutgens M, Baral N and N Leader-Williams (2022) Assessing the potential of snow leopard tourism-related products and services in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal. Tourism Planning and Development. DOI: 10.1080/21568316.2022.2122073 (Open access)
This paper aims to explore the interest, from supply and demand perspectives, in introducing snow leopard ecotourism services and eco-certified products into the Annapurna Conservation Area tourist market.
16. Jaya P, Izudin A and R Aditya (2022) The role of ecotourism in developing local communities in Indonesia. Journal of Ecotourism. DOI: 10.1080/14724049.2022.2117368
This study examines how ecotourism helps local communities thrive through a case study of a tourist village in Wringinputih, Borobudur, Central Java. The results show two opposing views on the importance of the concept.
17. Muriithi J (2022) Sustainability perspectives of the wildlife conservancy–based tourism model in a post-pandemic context in Kenya. In Korstanje M, Seraphin H and S Maingi (eds) Tourism Through Troubled Times, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley. DOI: 10.1108/978-1-80382-311-920221010
This chapter evaluates the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the practice of tourism in the wildlife conservancy model in Kenya and proposes response interventions to possible tourism crises in the future.
18. Nguyen T, et al (2022) A multicriteria approach to assessing the sustainability of community-based ecotourism in Central Vietnam. APN Science Bulletin. DOI: 10.30852/sb.2022.1938 (PDF)
The study aims to evaluate the sustainability of four community-based ecotourism destinations in Central Vietnam through a sustainable ecotourism index formed by applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process method.
19. Rastegar R, Breakey N, Driml S and L Ruhanen (2022) Does tourism development shift residents’ attitudes to the environment and protected area management? Tourism Recreation Research. DOI: 10.1080/02508281.2022.2106100
This study investigates residents’ attitudes to the environment, protected area management, and tourism from 2011 to 2020 in an Iranian rural village during early tourism stages. The findings reveal no significant shift in residents’ attitudes to the environment but a significant positive shift regarding protected area management.
20. Sobhani P, et al (2022) Relationship analysis of local community participation in sustainable ecotourism development in protected areas, Iran. Land. DOI: 10.3390/land11101871 (Open access)
This study investigates local community participation in Lar National Park and the Jajrud Protected Area with the Sustainable Use of Natural Resource Areas in Iran and evaluates how this influences the sustainability of ecotourism.
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21. How ecotourism in Konkan promotes climate-friendly tourism -> A few initiatives that promote experience-based tourism, where tourists get to experience the lifestyles of the indigenous communities and their low carbon-footprint living, are becoming popular in Maharashtra.
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22. Comolli V and A MacBeath (2022) Exploring the nexus between human vulnerabilities and environmental crime. Journal of Illicit Economies and Development. DOI: 10.31389/jied.154 (Open access)
This essay introduces the concept of environmental crime in its multiple forms and highlights the ways both the crimes themselves and related legislations compound existing vulnerabilities and generate new ones within communities, most often in the so-called Global South.
23. Dore A, Hübschle A and M Batley (2022) Towards environmental restorative justice in South Africa: How to understand and address wildlife offences. In Pali B, Forsyth M and F Tepper (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Restorative Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-04223-2_14
In this chapter, the authors consider whether restorative justice might offer an appropriate approach for meting out justice against people and entities who commit wildlife offences.
24. Gogoi D and B Gogoi (2022) Endangering the endangered: The poaching and conservation conundrum facing the greater Indian one-horned rhinoceros in Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India. Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy. DOI: 10.1080/13880292.2022.2124609
This article explores the conservation strategies for the greater endangered Indian one-horned rhinoceros in Kaziranga. It considers the crucial issue of rhinoceros poaching and the current anti-poaching mechanisms in the park in the light of global wildlife conservation efforts and domestic anti-poaching mechanisms in India.
25. Mrosso H, et al (2022) Illegal wildlife trade: Trade flows of wildlife products and facilitation methods in the Ruaha landscape, Tanzania. Open Journal of Ecology. DOI: 10.4236/oje.2022.129033 (Open access)
Using the Ruaha landscape, this study explores the origin and destination of wildlife products, and assesses the relationship between hunters and buyers or customers, the means used to transport wildlife products, and who influences people to engage in illegal hunting and trade activities.
26. People Not Poaching (2022) Engaging communities to tackle illegal wildlife trade - lessons from Southeast Asia, South America and sub-Saharan Africa. IIED and IUCN SULi, London. Available here (Open access)
This report presents evidence and eight key lessons from a diverse set of community-focused interventions to reduce illegal wildlife trade. It shows that there are many commonalities between the factors that have led to, or limited, success across these interventions.
27. Ribeiro M, et al (2022) Exploring a comprehensive behavioural model to investigate illegal sea turtle trade in Cabo Verde. Conservation and Society. DOI: 10.4103/cs.cs_98_21 (Open access)
This research examines the drivers of illegal harvesting and consumption of sea turtles on Maio, Cabo Verde. The results indicate the beliefs underlying harvest and consumption behaviours are distinct, such that outreach initiatives must be designed to address each.
28. Rojas-Cañizales D, et al (2022) Illegal take of nesting sea turtles in Tortuguero, Costa Rica: Conservation, trade, or tradition? Journal of Environmental Management. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116408
The authors aim to describe the illegal take at Tortuguero, estimating the minimum number of sea turtles taken using data collected during daily and weekly track surveys from 2005 to 2021. They document 735 nesting turtles illegally taken at Tortuguero, the green turtle being the most affected species.
29. Sabuhoro E, et al (2022) Livelihood security and perceived prevalence of illegal activities threatening mountain gorilla conservation in East Africa’s Virunga landscape. Land. DOI: 10.3390/land11091509 (Open access)
This paper investigates the relationship between household livelihood security and the perceived prevalence of illegal activities across the Virunga Landscape (VL). Results from a survey of residents of areas adjacent to the VL in Uganda and Rwanda reveal varied links between human livelihoods and illegal activities threatening wildlife.
30. Work C, Theilade I and T Thuon (2022) Under the canopy of development aid: Illegal logging and the shadow state. The Journal of Peasant Studies. DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2103794 (Open access)
This paper documents the history of Cambodia's Shadow State and its interlocutors in the timber trade, drawing connections to contemporary timber extraction involving syndicated logging, government officials, and USAID.
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31. Trafficked: Kidnapped chimps, jailed rhino horn traffickers, and seized donkey parts -> Calls for renewed focus on organised crime in wildlife trafficking, as specialised courts in Uganda and the DRC are delivering convictions for wildlife crimes that in the past would likely have gone unpunished.
32. Poaching surges in the birthplace of white rhino conservation -> Poaching has more than doubled this year in South Africa’s Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park.
33. A fast-growing pipeline: The Amazon-to-Southeast Asia wildlife trade -> Hundreds of Amazon species are being shipped to Asia, principally China, in unsustainable numbers, ranging from jaguars to reptiles, turtles and parrots to songbirds, poison dart frogs and tropical fish.
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Medicinal plant harvest and use
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34. Rajoo K, et al (2022) Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used by the Kenyah community of Borneo. Journal of Ethnopharmacology. DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2022.115780
This study documents the ethnomedicinal knowledge of the Kenyah community in Sarawak. Almost all of the cited plants had been previously recorded to be used in either Ayurvedic, Chinese herbal medicine, Malay traditional medicine or other Asian ethnomedicinal systems.
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35. Documenting Nepal’s plant-based medical tradition: Q&A with Ram Prasad Chaudhary -> With younger generations of Nepalis increasingly viewing ethnobotanical traditions as superstition, it is imperative to instil in them the belief that the practice is based on centuries of knowledge generation.
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36. Muller J, et al (2022) The hunter and the hunted: Using web-sourced imagery to monitor leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) trophy hunting. Conservation Science and Practice. DOI: 10.1111/csp2.12789 (Open access)
The authors use web-sourced images of African leopard trophy hunts to determine whether online photographs could assist in monitoring and documenting trophy hunting in Africa. From a subset of photos, across six countries between 2011 and 2020, they extracted information on the leopards killed and hunter demographics.
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37. Beyond The Trigger -> Travelling to 5 different conservancies & 1 private lodge in Namibia, this film aims to ask the people on the ground, living in rural areas, about their views of trophy hunting and if they really do receive fair benefits.
38. A trophy-hunting ban could hurt animals more than it helps -> A proposed congressional ban would starve conservation agencies of revenue.
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Rights-based conservation
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39. Anguelovski I and E Corbera (2022) Integrating justice in nature-based solutions to avoid nature-enabled dispossession. Ambio. DOI: 10.1007/s13280-022-01771-7 (Open access)
Through a critical review of existing debates and perspectives on nature-based solutions (NBS), this paper questions their uptake and points at the frequent embeddedness of NBS in speculative and elite-based development paths in both urban and rural areas.
40. Fromont C, et al (2022) Towards an inclusive nature conservation initiative: Preliminary assessment of stakeholders’ representations about the Makay region, Madagascar. PLoS ONE. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0272223 (Open access)
To foster more just and sustainable agendas in protected areas, the diversity of perspectives from different stakeholders must be better understood, acknowledged, and tackled. In this article, the authors aim to initiate this understanding for the Makay region in Madagascar where a ‘New Protected Area’ has been gazetted.
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41. The best way to preserve nature is also the fairest -> Global science bodies have long confirmed indigenous peoples’ unique contributions to conservation. But with these communities being relentlessly displaced from their ancestral homes, financial support and secure land rights have become crucial to their ongoing stewardship of the world’s biodiversity.
42. How to keep environmental conservation from doing more harm than good -> In Africa, “colonial conservation” has become a human rights issue.
43. The push to protect Africa’s land displaces its greatest guardians: Indigenous peoples -> Calls are mounting for governments to formally protect more land. But colonial-style conservation is unjust and doesn’t work.
44. Racism and colonialism embedded in language of conservation, NGO says -> Survival International issues guide calling for reappraisal of terms such as ‘wilderness’, ‘voluntary relocation’ and ‘protected area’.
45. Maasai villages lose important court case as wildlife game reserve trudges on -> The East African Court of Justice has ruled in favour of the Tanzanian government after a five-year legal battle between Maasai communities and the state over evictions that took place in 2017.
46. Prince Harry wildlife NGO under fire after elephants kill three in Malawi -> African Parks, of which the prince is president, is one of three parties accused of rushing a mass translocation of the mammals.
47. Western nonprofits are trampling over Africans’ rights and land -> Indigenous people are being forced out from so-called protected areas.
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Small scale fisheries management
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48. Bediye D (2022) Challenges and prospects of capturing fisheries and the ways forwards in developing countries. Journal of Fisheries & Livestock Production. Available here (PDF)
Capture fisheries are the most important contributing sector for both developed and developing countries. The author argues however that despite its considerable contributions to development, it is often not seen as a priority sector by policy makers or
donor agencies.
49. Cadman R, Snook J and M Bailey (2022) Ten years of Inuit co-management: Advancing research, resilience, and capacity in Nunatsiavut through fishery governance. Regional Environmental Change. DOI: 10.1007/s10113-022-01983-3 (Open access)
This research examines how the Torngat Joint Fisheries Board’s work contributes to fisheries governance in northern Labrador (Canada), and subsequently, how co-management is placed in terms of supporting greater self-determination for Indigenous Peoples in resource governance.
50. de la Puente S, et al (2022) Adoption of sustainable low-impact fishing practices is not enough to secure sustainable livelihoods and social wellbeing in small-scale fishing communities. Marine Policy. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105321
The authors evaluate the socio-economic performance and evolution of two small-scale fishing communities of northern Peru using the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach. The results suggest that small-scale fishers of these two sites are currently in a social-ecological trap, with many points of entry and few ways out.
51. Golo H and B Erinosho (2022) Tackling the challenges confronting women in the Elmina fishing community of Ghana: A human rights framework. Marine Policy. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105349
This paper unearths the challenges facing women in the small-scale fisheries sector in their daily interactions with their environment. It shows that most of the challenges confronting the women in the study area can be linked to their marginalisation in decision-making processes on the issues affecting the fisheries sector.
52. Gopal N, et al (2022) Traditional access rights and methods of fishing in inland water bodies: Are women slowly losing out? A study from Kerala, India. Gender, Technology and Development. DOI: 10.1080/09718524.2022.2120844
The authors use a gender analysis framework to situate the women in selected inland fisheries through case studies, document the methods of fishing, and explore how the fish catch is utilised. They show how access rights to many of these water resources are based on informal and customary arrangements.
53. Hamad W and G Islam (2022) Alternative employment, women participation in seaweed farming and livelihoods of small-scale fishing community in Zanzibar. Journal of Positive School Psychology. Available here (Open access)
The study aims to examine how women participation in seaweed farming contributes to livelihoods in Zanzibar. The results show that seaweed farmers have greater access to livelihood assets and increased household income.
54. Kpanou S, et al (2022) Drivers of small-scale fishers’ willingness to adopt property rights co-management in the Lake Nokoué and Porto-Novo Lagoon complex in Benin: Discrete choice experiment approach. 26th National Symposium for Applied Biological Sciences. Available here (Open access)
This study aims to assess the factors that influence the willingness of small-scale fishers to adopt property rights co-management options in southern Benin. The results show that only 44% of fishers are willing to adopt property rights co-management options.
55. Kushardanto H, et al (2022) Household finances and trust are key determinants of benefits from small-scale fisheries co-management. Marine Policy. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105284
The authors interview respondents from fishing households in 2019 and 2021 across seven areas in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. A key finding is that perceived food, financial and job security outcomes increased over the two-year period and are positively related to respondents’ knowledge of fisheries co-management.
56. Pardie P and B Campion (2022) The how in fishing and fish processing: Traditional artisanal fishing and fish processing practices among the Ga people of Ghana. Maritime Studies. DOI: 10.1007/s40152-022-00286-x
This paper documents the fishing, fish processing and fisheries management practices of the Ga people of Ghana as a starting point for sustaining the fisheries, local fishing communities and fish value chains.
57. Wakita K, et al (2022) Potential signals promoting behaviour for coastal conservation: Conformity in small-scale fishing communities in the Philippines. Marine Policy. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105292
This study aims at exploring any potential signals which might influence the pro-environmental behaviour of residents, especially regarding marine and coastal conservation, taking small-scale fishing communities in the Philippines as a case study.
58. Wintergalen, E. W., R. Oyanedel, J. Villaseñor-Derbez, S. Fulton, and R. Molina. 2022. Opportunities and challenges for livelihood resilience in urban and rural Mexican small-scale fisheries. Ecology and Society. DOI: 10.5751/ES-13471-270346 (Open access)
The authors perform a systematic review of the Mexican small-scale fisheries literature to compare constructions of livelihood resilience across urban and rural communities. Their findings suggest that attributes innate to urbanness and ruralness may influence how these communities and individuals build livelihood resilience.
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59. Fish return to Southern Brazil after trawling ban -> Small- and large-scale fishers report an increase in the volume and variety of fish species in the Patos Lagoon and the coast of Rio Grande do Sul state.
60. Healthier mangroves, more fish -> How conserving these critical ecosystems can boost food security and nutrition.
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Sustainable/community-based forest management
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61. Bayesa A and D Bushara (2022) Contribution of non-timber forest products to local communities: The case of Belete Gera forest, southwest Ethiopia. East African Journal of Forestry and Agroforestry. DOI: 10.37284/eajfa.5.1.879 (Open access)
This study assesses the role of NTFPs in local peoples' livelihoods around Belete Gera forest. It finds that the most important NTFPs extracted from the forest are forest coffee, honey, charcoal, Aframomum kororima, fuel wood, lianas, Rhamnus prinoides, and medicinal plants.
62. Bisui S, et al (2022) Economical and ecological realisation of joint forest management (JFM) for sustainable rural livelihood: A case study. Tropical Ecology. DOI: 10.1007/s42965-022-00275-5
The authors evaluate the effectiveness of a joint forest management scheme in two sites and also assess the ecological impacts of such programmes. The results show that the forest dwellers of Arabari forest range receive more benefits such as different NTFPs over the Bhadutola forest range community.
63. Degnet M, van der Werf E, Ingram V and J Wesseler (2022) Community perceptions: A comparative analysis of community participation in forest management: FSC-certified and non-certified plantations in Mozambique. Forest Policy and Economics. DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2022.102815 (Open access)
Using household survey data from villages adjacent to plantations owned by two private forest companies in Mozambique, the authors assess households' perceptions about their participation in plantations' activities.
64. Hovis M, et al (2022) Ownership, governance, uses, and ecosystem services of community forests in the eastern United States. Forests. DOI: 10.3390/f13101577 (Open access)
This study enhances the understanding of the characteristics of community forests (CFs) in the U.S. and the ecosystem services and other benefits that they provide. CFs benefits frequently included cultural services, such as recreation and education, and regulating and supporting services, such as water quality and wildlife habitat.
65. Kainyande A, Auch E and A Okoni-Williams (2022) The socio-economic contributions of large-scale plantation forests: Perceptions of adjacent rural communities in the northern province of Sierra Leone. Trees, Forests and People. DOI: 10.1016/j.tfp.2022.100329 (Open access)
This study conceptualises the socio-economic contribution of large-scale plantation forests to adjacent rural communities in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone. It finds that local communities mainly benefit from plantation forestry through employment, improved road conditions, and water well constructions.
66. Lo K and L Zhu (2022) Voices from below: Local community perceptions of forest conservation policies in China. Forest Policy and Economics. DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2022.102825
The authors explore the preferences and priorities of the forest-dependent communities toward forest conservation policies in Daxing'anling Prefecture, China. They illustrate the benefits of a more participatory approach to forest conservation in China by envisioning a bottom-up conservation programme.
67. Mendako R, Tian G and P Matata (2022) Identifying socioeconomic determinants of households’ forest dependence in the Rubi-Tele hunting domain, DR Congo: A logistic regression analysis. Forests. DOI: 10.3390/f13101706 (Open access)
This study determines and characterises the level of forest dependence and identifies the demographic and socioeconomic factors influencing households’ dependence on forests in the Rubi-Tele Hunting Domain. The results show that non-forest income is inversely related to forest dependence.
68. Mwamfupe A, et al (2022) Sustainability partnerships in the forestry sector in south-east Tanzania. In Ponte S, Noe C and D Brockington (eds) Contested Sustainability: The Political Ecology of Conservation and Development in Tanzania. James Currey. Available here (PDF)
This chapter analyses the role and impacts of forest governance partnerships using the case of community-based forest management in Kilwa District, Tanzania.
69. Nagahama K, Tachibana S and R Rakwal (2022) Critical aspects of people’s participation in community-based forest management from the case of Van Panchayat in Indian Himalaya. Forests. DOI: 10.3390/f13101667 (Open access)
This paper targets regional community-based forest management in Uttarakhand, India and looks into characteristics and critical aspect of people’s participation. The results conclude three stages of local peoples’ participation in forest management: “participation in activities”, “participation in decision-making” and “participation in management plan creation”.
70. Sheikh N, Patra S, Kumar A and P Saikia (2022) Indian forests: Sustainable uses and its role in livelihood security. In Panwar P, Shukla G, Bhat J and S Chakravarty (eds) Land Degradation Neutrality: Achieving SDG 15 by Forest Management. Springer, Singapore. 10.1007/978-981-19-5478-8_23
Forests in India perform an important role in the economic and sociocultural life of the tribal people who live in and around the forests. The authors argue that proper management strategies should be undertaken to satisfy the growing demand of NTFPs to ensure their long-term viability for livelihood security and economic upliftment.
71. van der Zon M, de Jong W and B Arts (2022) Community enforcement and tenure security: A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of twelve community forest management initiatives in the Peruvian Amazon. World Development. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.106071
The authors apply a fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis to case study data on 12 voluntary community conservation initiatives in northern Peru to explore the relationship between local enforcement, legal and alternative property rights, and conservation effectiveness.
72. Wang L, Mondela C and J Kuuluvainen (2022) Striking a balance between livelihood and forest conservation in a forest farm facility in Choma, Zambia. Forests. DOI: 10.3390/f13101631 (Open access)
This study investigated the factors affecting Zambia’s rural households’ participation in a natural regeneration (NR) programme. The results indicate that charcoal production enhances the livelihoods of rural households when forest conservation is reconciled with household income and forest-management methods that abandon traditional practices.
73. Yahaya A-K, Tijani A-F and A Alhassan (2022) Impacts of local conservation strategies on forest flora species of the Ambalara forest reserve in the Wa East District, Ghana. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology. DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2022.2120108
This study examines the impact of strategies used by local actors such as the land priest (tendaana), sectional heads, chiefs (naamene), diviners, women leaders (magazias) and youth groups on forest flora species of the forest reserve.
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74. Alternatives to farmwork empower communities and save forests, study finds -> The main solution, say researchers, is to provide local communities with alternative livelihoods to agriculture, as expanding farming practices are the main drivers of forest loss.
75. Ethiopia’s honey forest: People and wildlife living in sweet harmony -> Ecologist and expedition leader Julian Bayliss says making the forest a community conservation area would allow local communities to continue to play a leading role in protecting the forest.
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Sustainable use and traditional knowledge
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76. Mucioki M, et al (2022) Understanding the conservation challenges and needs of culturally significant plant species through Indigenous knowledge and species distribution models. Journal for Nature Conservation. DOI: 10.1016/j.jnc.2022.126285
The authors present an approach to informing the conservation of four culturally significant plants in the west US and understanding the influence of bioclimatic factors and stress on Indigenous People’s relationships with plants and the broader forest ecosystem.
77. Reid M, et al (2022) Protecting our coast for everyone's future: Indigenous and scientific knowledge support marine spatial protections proposed by Central Coast First Nations in Pacific Canada. People and Nature. DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10380 (Open access)
In the 2000s, the authors paired Indigenous knowledge and Western science to develop marine spatial plans. Their proposed spatial protections for the Marine Protected Area Network for Canada's Northern Shelf Bioregion encompass areas important to many exploited taxa and to corals, sponges, eelgrass beds and other carbon stores.
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News articles, blogs etc.
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Sustainable use measurement, monitoring, assessment
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78. Kitolelei S, et al (2022) Conservation status and cultural values of sea turtles leading to (un)written parallel management systems in Fiji. Ambio. DOI: 10.1007/s13280-022-01766-4 (Open access)
The authors suggest that the government of Fiji and NGOs emphasise community management of sea turtles, and work alongside the customary chiefs and their fishing clans to understand the real harvest (eventually by allowing quotas) and to monitor the recovery of sea turtles in Fijian waters.
79. Kozanayi W, Wynberg R and M Hoffman (2022) Does tenure influence sustainable use? The ecological impacts of harvesting baobab (Adansonia digitata). African Journal of Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/aje.13075 (Open access)
Using the lens of the baobab tree, this paper explores the ecological outcomes of different tenurial arrangements and implications for resource sustainability. The study is based on an ecological survey in Zimbabwe of 244 baobab trees located across three tenure regimes – communal, private and state – and also draws on interviews with key informants.
80. Naves L and T Rothe (2022) Managing harvests of seabirds and their eggs. In Young L and E VanderWerf (eds) Conservation of Marine Birds, Academic Press. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-323-88539-3.00001-7
The authors argue that seabird harvest sustainability may depend on alleviating other threats such as fisheries bycatch and introduced predators. Understanding the relative impact of diverse threats to seabirds, including harvest, is important to prioritise conservation efforts.
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81. Local coverage of Nepal’s ‘Himalayan Viagra’ harvest lacks eco focus, study says -> Every year, hundreds of thousands of Nepalis head for the hilly regions to harvest this fungus-mummified caterpillar larvae from the wild, leaving schools, farms and entire villages deserted.
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82. Barbosa J, Aguiar J and R Alves (2022) Hunting and wildlife use in protected areas of the Atlantic rainforest, north-eastern Brazil. Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente. DOI: 10.5380/dma.v60i0.74388 (Open access)
This study investigates the capture, slaughter and use of wild animals in four Conservation Units (protected areas) in the Atlantic Rainforest in the state of Paraíba. The use of wild fauna was mainly associated with the consumption of meat; however, the use of animals as pets, trade, zootherapy and control hunting was also recorded.
83. Dutta A and S Lahiri (2022) Hunting. In Wouters J and T Subba (eds) The Routledge Companion to Northeast India, Routledge India. Available here
The authors unpack the multi-layered complexity associated with hunting in Northeast India, through the ecological, social, political and epidemiological lens, and call for an interdisciplinary approach to tackling hunting to ensure biodiversity conservation and human well-being.
84. Li X, Stepp J and B Tilt (2022) Nuosu horticulturalists' local knowledge of wild edible plants and fungi and socio-economic implications in Yunnan, Southwest China. Journal of Ethnobiology. DOI: 10.2993/0278-0771-42.3.2
The authors document the ethno-species of wild edible plants and fungi and analyse the corresponding socio-economic implications in an ethnic Nuosu township in the northwest region of Yunnan Province, China.
85. Mwajombe A, Liwenga E and D Mwiturubani (2022) Contribution of wild edible plants to household livelihood in a semiarid Kondoa District, Tanzania. World Food Policy. DOI: 10.1002/wfp2.12050
This paper investigates the contribution of wild edible pants (WEPs) on rural livelihoods in semiarid Kondoa District. The findings show that 97% of households use WEPs for a subsistence basis, with only 8.2% using them for income generation.
86. Zhou J, et al (2022) Climate change, moose, and subsistence harvest: Social-ecological assessment of Nuiqsut, Alaska. Ecology and Society. DOI: 10.5751/ES-13175-270329 (Open access)
The authors use a social-ecological system framework to evaluate the possible range of changes in moose abundance, distribution, and harvesting for Nuiqsut, a small native community in northern Alaska.
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News articles, blogs etc.
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Wildlife trade (and CITES)
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87. Cronin M, de Wit L and L Martínez-Estévez (2022) Aligning conservation and public health goals to tackle unsustainable trade of mammals. Conservation Science and Practice. DOI: 10.1111/csp2.12818 (Open access)
The authors develop a simple conservation and health trade risk (CHT) index using a case study of traded mammals based on species' extinction and zoonotic risks, weighed by the extent of their trade. They apply this index to 1161 IUCN-listed terrestrial mammals involved in the wildlife trade to identify 284 high-priority species that scored high in the CHT index.
88. Randolph S, et al (2022) Urban wild meat markets in Cameroon: Actors and motives. World Development. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.106060
Using the wild meat trade in two urban areas in Cameroon as case studies, the authors address why people choose to sell wild meat as an alternative to selling legal commodities and investigate whether urban wild meat traders rely upon particular ethno-linguistic or other ties to generate a network of buyers.
89. Sackey H, McNamara J, Milner-Gulland E.J. and Y Ntiamoa-Baidu (2022) The bushmeat trade in northern Ghana: Market dynamics, drivers of trade and implications for conservation. Oryx. DOI: 10.1017/S0030605322000096 (Open access)
The authors monitor bushmeat traded in three markets in the Upper East Region of Ghana during October 2018–October 2019. The results show that more than 80% of carcasses sold were amphibians (frogs) and that species composition and volumes of bushmeat traded varied significantly across markets.
90. Toudonou C, et al (2022) Seeking serpents: Ball python trade in Benin, West Africa. Nature Conservation. DOI: 10.3897/natureconservation.50.86352 (Open access)
The authors focus on understanding the purpose and socio-economic context of the trade in ball pythons in Benin. They provide a snapshot of trade dynamics during a period when hunters are not predominantly actively involved in supplying eggs, neonates and gravid females for ranching and export as exotic pets.
91. Tyabji Z, Jabado R and D Sutaria (2022) Utilisation and trade of sharks and rays in the Andaman Islands, India. Marine Policy. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105295
The authors assess the utilisation and trade of sharks and rays across the Andaman Islands. Sharks and rays are exported to supply the meat market in peninsular India and contribute to the international trade in products such as fins, gill plates, and liver oil.
92. Wang Y, Turvey S and N Leader-Williams (2022) Global biodiversity conservation requires traditional Chinese medicine trade to be sustainable and well regulated. Global Change Biology. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16425 (Open access)
The authors provide an overview of the current status of traditional Chinese medicine related regulations in China, identify weaknesses in regulation frameworks, and highlight issues that currently limit our understanding of the magnitude, dynamics, and impact of the trade.
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93. Colourful songbirds could be traded to extinction -> The pet songbird trade in Asia has already driven several species close to extinction, with birds targeted primarily for their beautiful voices.
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General (non-thematic articles on sustainable use and livelihoods)
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94. Friedman K, et al (2022) The CBD Post-2020 biodiversity framework: People's place within the rest of nature. People and Nature. DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10403 (Open access)
This perspective intends to help the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework set people firmly as part of nature, not apart from it.
95. Kuklina V, et al (2022) Hunting in Siberia: Between subsistence practices and natural resource management. In Bocharnikov V and A Steblyanskaya (eds) Humans in the Siberian Landscapes. Springer Geography. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-90061-8_15
The chapter focuses on an interdisciplinary understanding of the role of hunting for different actors: the state, hunting enterprises, local communities and indigenous peoples. It provides a short overview of studies of hunting and their specifics in Siberia, examines the history of the state management of hunting in Siberia.
96. Kumar A and K Parameswaran (2022) Sustainable fishery: Combating IUU fishing through people's participation to ensure environmental justice. Maritime Affairs: Journal of the National Maritime Foundation of India. DOI: 10.1080/09733159.2022.2131248
The article examines the effects of illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing within the Indian Ocean Region on sustainability, and damage to the marine ecology, resulting in environmental and distributive injustice to the coastal communities.
97. Mgonja J and D Uswege (2022) Assessment of factors moderating community attitudes towards wildlife tourism and conservation: A case of Ikona and Makao wildlife management areas. Tanzania Journal of Forestry and Nature Conservation. Available here (Open access)
The purpose of this study is to assess community attitudes towards the impacts of wildlife tourism and conservation interventions in Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) to community livelihoods, using Ikona and Makao WMAs (Tanzania) as case studies.
98. Queiros D (2022) People parks win-win framework: Integrating components that can influence people-park relationships. African Protected Area Conservation and Science. DOI: 10.4102/koedoe.v64i1.1723
This paper aims to construct a comprehensive integrated framework representing the components that can influence people-park relationships. The research draws on the work of others as well as primary research to produce this multidimensional framework capturing the influences on people-park relationships with a focus on achieving both community well-being and biodiversity conservation.
99. Varghese A, Oommen M, Paul M and S Nath (2022) Conservation through sustainable use: Lessons from India. Routledge, India. DOI: 10.4324/9781003343493
This collection of case studies on sustainable use practices throughout India aims to identify the policies, management strategies, and knowledge contexts that contribute to resource use without damaging biological diversity.
100. Viikari L (2022) International Whaling Commission as a natural resource management regime: Quest for balance between western science, state governance and Indigenous self-determination. International Journal on Minority and Group Rights. Available here
The aim of this paper is to examine how the international management of the whale resource has evolved, what kind of an Indigenous market it is today and where it might be heading. The author argues that Indigenous whaling within the International Whaling Commission remains a colonial regime where indigenous interests are subordinate to nation states and Western science.
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101. Why are nature protection funds not reaching indigenous peoples? -> Donors are increasingly funding indigenous communities but study says only a fraction of cash is reaching biodiversity frontlines.
102. Elephant conservation may be undermined by Twitter users who overlook main threats -> What the public believes to be the primary threats to elephants has an impact on how conservation issues are prioritised and funded. But public views are informed by the media’s coverage of conservation threats.
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