Abstract
Walters, G., J. Schleicher, O. Hymas, and L. Coad. 2015. Evolving hunting practices in Gabon: lessons for community-based conservation interventions. Ecology and Society 20(4):31.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08047-200431
Highlights
Addressing today’s conservation challenges is intimately linked to natural resource governance
As a result conservation initiatives are increasingly realizing the importance of integrating local perspectives of land tenure arrangements, natural resource rights, and local beliefs into conservation approaches
This happens despite the fact that studies outside the community-based natural resource management literature have shown that past resource governance (Toulmin et al 2002), customary institutions (Kassibo 2002, Hinz 2003), and resourceuse cosmology (Krech 1999, Brink 2008) play important roles in how communities both previously and currently perceive and manage their resources. These issues are likely to influence current resource governance thinking and action. In response to this gap in the conservation literature, we explore the dynamic nature of hunting governance in two communities in Gabon integrating various ethnographic methods with resource mapping and a historical literature review
Summary
Addressing today’s conservation challenges is intimately linked to natural resource governance. As a result there have been increasing calls for including perspectives from the social sciences into the largely natural science-dominated field of conservation (e.g., Mascia et al 2003, Brosius 2006, Adams 2007) and for the incorporation of traditional ecological knowledge (Berkes 2004, Sola 2005, Leopold 2013) and ethnographic accounts (Pierotti and Wildcat 2000, West and Brockington 2006, Peterson et al 2010) These perspectives can contribute toward gaining a richer understanding of communities’ local beliefs and perspectives on land tenure arrangements and natural resource usage, access, and rights. A large number of studies have stressed that integrating these local perspectives into conservation initiatives is fundamental on ethical and moral grounds, and for obtaining successful conservation outcomes (Soulé 1985, Campbell 2005, Drury et al 2011, Schultz 2011, Lowe et al 2013)
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