19 Feb Wildlife
Ongoing efforts to protect wildlife through means such as increasing habitat connectivity, reducing dependency on bushmeat through agriculture and livestock initiatives, and collaboration at the local level are examined within the presentations available on this page.
These studies form a discussion on comparative environmental management approaches from a variety of locations such as the Congo, Nepal, Ghana, Malaysia, and the Philippines. In turn, this provides a glimpse into which systems of governance tend to be effective -and others which may have potential short fallings we can learn from moving forward.
Key themes:
Wildlife & Fisheries, Places & Spaces, Conserved Areas
Click titles to expand sections below:
Creating Grauer's Gorilla Habitat Connectivity through Community Conservation Areas
Sarah Tolbert (Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International), NGOBOBO -As- Ibungu Urbain (Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International)
Primate Conservation Through Community Empowerment and Sustainable Livelihoods
Andrea Dempsey (West African Primate Conservation Action)
Community-Based Great Ape Habitat Restoration in Congo
Dominique Bikaba (Strong Roots Congo)
When are fish wildlife? Conservation ethics and real life impacts of shark protection on marginalized communities
Shannon Arnold (The Manta Trust), Jo Marie Acebes (Balyena.org)
Are you game for this? Assessing local stakeholders' perceptions on conservation and intention to participate in a proposed dugong protected area in Johor, Malaysia
Sok Fen Lee (Universiti Putra Malaysia), Ahmad Shuib (Universiti Putra Malaysia), Fairul Izmal Jamal Hisne (The MareCet Research Organization), Louisa Ponnampalam (The MareCet Research Organization)
Living With Tigers: Poverty Reduction For Human Wildlife Coexistence
Valerie De Liedekerke (Conservation Science Projects Manager)