scholarly journals A SITE-BASED CONSERVATION APPROACH TO PROMOTE THE RECOVERY OF BANGGAI CARDINALFISH (Pterapogon kauderni) ENDEMIC POPULATIONS

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-72
Author(s):  
Abigail Mary Moore ◽  
Samliok Ndobe ◽  
Jamaluddin Jompa
Keyword(s):  
Protected Area ◽  
Marine Protected Area ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Fine Scale ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Genetic Stock ◽  
Habitat Rehabilitation ◽  
Community Based Conservation ◽  
High Level ◽  
A Site

The endemic Banggai cardinalfish (Pterapogon kauderni) is an Indonesian conservation priority with Endangered species. The goal of this research was to develop a site-based conservation concept appropriate from a bio-ecological viewpoint, based on the unusual characteristics of this species, in particular: (i) mouthbrooder with direct development, leading to reproductively isolated stocks and fine scale genetic structure; (ii) high level of reliance on habitat, in particular symbiosis with benthic animals providing protective micro-habitat. Methods used include review and analysis of published literature and unpublished data, including an analysis using the Marxan spatial planning software. We suggest several policy options and identify research needs, including: (i) base P. kauderni conservation (protection, rehabilitation and sustainable use) on stocks as the basic management unit; (ii) use data on P. kauderni genetic stocks in the zonation of the proposed Banggai Archipelago marine protected area (MPA); (iii) undertake further research to identify stocks/stock boundaries; (iv) apply the "BCF gardens" concept to fine-scale rebuilding of P. kauderni populations and enabling sustainable use through micro-habitat rehabilitation, with a community-based approach supported by a multi-phase scientific research program. The outputs from this study should support efforts towards sustainable management of the Banggai cardinalfish, particularly in the context of strategies to develop and manage an effective sub-national MPA. Keywords genetic stock; habitat/micro-habitat rehabilitation; community-based conservation; marine protected area; Marxan

Use them or lose them? Conservation and the consumptive use of marine turtle eggs at Ostional, Costa Rica

1998 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 305-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
LISA M. CAMPBELL
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Marine Turtle ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Conservation ◽  
And Control

'Sustainable use' of wildlife resources and 'community based conservation' are two themes recurrent in contemporary statements of wildlife conservation policy, and their use is in response to a perceived 'deep conservation crisis' which has in part arisen from exclusionary and restrictive conservation practices. The extent to which the legal harvest of marine turtle eggs in Ostional, Costa Rica, is an example of sustainable use and community based conservation is evaluated in this paper. Field research using in-depth interviewing and a household questionnaire was undertaken in Ostional during 1994 and 1995, to investigate local perceptions of the egg harvesting project, both positive and negative. Socio-economic benefits from, and legal and administrative structures supporting, the project were found to be fundamental to community support for a limited egg harvest and allowed for community participation in, and control of, resource use. Participation and control were key to local support for conservation of nesting marine turtles and their eggs. Attempts to use wildlife sustainably must be considered on a case by case basis, to account for the biological nature of the wildlife resource and environment in question and for local socio-economic, political and historical conditions. Nevertheless, some of the lessons learned from the attempt to implement sustainable use and community based conservation in Ostional may be more widely generalized, and may help inform other efforts to reconcile wildlife conservation objectives with local development needs.

scholarly journals Letting Wood Rot: A Case Study on Local Perceptions of Global Conservation Initiatives (Boumba, Niger)

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 40-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Müller ◽  
Iro Dan Guimbo
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Conservation Priorities ◽  
Local Conservation ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Local Perceptions ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Conservation ◽  
Conservation Actions

Although there is a pressing need for conservation in Africa and a push for such actions to be directed by the community, there is still much conflict both in academia and on the ground regarding the success and methods of community-based conservation. Employing key-informant interviews, focus group discussions and participant observation, we look at how one community has perceived the conservation actions in their village, Boumba, Niger, and the neighbouring national park, Park-W. This study examines local perceptions of the goals, priorities and methods of conservation in Park-W and the Boumba region. We demonstrate that while participants expressed positive alignment with perceived conservation goals, they did not agree with conservation priorities and felt strongly against the methods.  Reframing conservation discourse in the terms of sustainable-use or adaptive management may serve to help translate much of the conservation ethic to local realities. We argue that for local conservation to be culturally sustainable, programmers of conservation must engage the community on their own terms, and recognize the value of local perceptions.

Procedural and distributive justice in a community-based managed Marine Protected Area in Zanzibar, Tanzania

Marine Policy ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 91-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeleine Gustavsson ◽  
Lars Lindström ◽  
Narriman S. Jiddawi ◽  
Maricela de la Torre-Castro
Keyword(s):  
Distributive Justice ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Marine Protected Area ◽  
Community Based

scholarly journals Performance of a baited underwater video system vs. the underwater visual census technique in assessing the structure of fish assemblages in a Mediterranean marine protected area

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 480
Author(s):  
GABRIELLA LA MANNA ◽  
IVAN GUALA ◽  
DANIELE GRECH ◽  
FRANCESCO PERRETTI ◽  
FABIO RONCHETTI ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Fish Assemblages ◽  
Marine Protected Area ◽  
Fish Fauna ◽  
Underwater Video ◽  
Visual Census ◽  
Underwater Visual Census ◽  
Species Richness And Abundance ◽  
High Level

Accurate, rapid and cost-effective fish assemblage monitoring is fundamental for marine protected area (MPA) management as a pivotal tool to verify whether and to what extent MPA conservation objectives have been achieved and to redefine these objectives in the framework of an adaptive management. Recently, there has been a sharp increase in the number of video-based methods to study fish fauna, such as baited remote underwater video (BRUV) systems, that, depending on the objectives of the monitoring, can provide complementary or additional data to the more commonly used underwater visual census (UVC). Even though BRUV systems have been widely used in a wide range of geographic contexts and habitats, their use in the Mediterranean basin is still sporadic and the evaluation of the efficiency of BRUV systems and whether they can be used to complement other techniques needs investigation. Thus, the objective of this study was to assess the performance of a BRUV system in a Mediterranean MPA and to evaluate its effectiveness in assessing the structure of fish assemblages (abundance and species richness) by comparing estimates with those obtained by the UVC technique. The fish fauna were monitored by BRUV and UVC in the Capo Caccia – Isola Piana Marine Protected Area (Sardinia, Italy), in July and October-November 2020, at four sampling sites and two areas, hundreds of meters apart, for each site. Overall, 46 taxa and a total of 3620 individuals were observed by BRUV, while 36 taxa and a total of 2995 individuals were observed by UVC. The species first observed in front of the camera’s field of view and able to reach the maximum abundance were the planktivores (Chromis chromis and Oblada melanura) followed by several carnivorous species belonging to the families Labridae, Serranidae and Sparidae, and lastly two carnivores (Mullus surmuletus and Mugilidae spp.) and some high-level predators (Dentex dentex, Seriola dumerili, Sphyraena viridensis, Dicentrarchus labrax). The maximum species richness and abundance were reached between 39 and 50 min. The cumulative species richness increased until around 30 min. Species richness was higher during the BRUV compared to the UVC monitoring. The consistency in findings between BRUV and UVC and a better performance of BRUV in detecting some species (mainly high-level predators), supports BRUV as an additional technique for describing and quantifying species richness and abundance also in the Mediterranean Sea. Based on the results of this study, the advantages/disadvantages, shortcomings, suggestions and resources needed for the two techniques are outlined.

scholarly journals PARTISIPASI MASYARAKAT DALAM PENGELOLAAN AREAL PERLINDUNGAN LAUT – BERBASIS MASYARAKAT DI KABUPATEN ADMINISTRASI KEPULAUAN SERIBU, DKI JAKARTA

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Erwiantono Erwiantono ◽  
Siti Amanah ◽  
Pang S. Asngari ◽  
Rilus A. Kinseng
Keyword(s):  
Protected Area ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Marine Protected Area ◽  
Marine Resources ◽  
Coral Reef Ecosystem ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Equation Modelling ◽  
Collaborative Program ◽  
Participation Level ◽  
The Government

Pada dua dekade terakhir, kondisi ekosistem terumbu karang di perairan Kepulauan Seribu telah menunjukkan degradasi yang mengkawatirkan. Untuk mengatasi permasalahan tersebut, mulai tahun 2004 Pemda Kabupaten Administrasi Kepulauan Seribu bersama masyarakat menerapkan program Areal Perlindungan Laut–Berbasis Masyarakat (APL–BM) di lima kelurahan. Tujuan penelitian  adalah : (1) menganalisis tingkat partisipasi masyarakat dalam pengelolaan APL–BM, dan; (2) menganalisis faktor – faktor yang berpengaruh terhadap partisipasi masyarakat. Pengumpulan data dilakukan selama periode Juni 2011–Mei 2012 dengan menggunakan kuesioner, pengamatan dan kajian pustaka. Populasi pada penelitian ini adalah individu pemanfaat utama sumberdaya alam berbasis ekosistem terumbu karang secara langsung. Metode pengambilan contoh yang digunakan adalah acak berproporsi sehingga terpilih 202 responden. Data dianalisis dengan menggunakan statistika deskriptifdan inferensia dengan model persamaan struktural (SEM). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan : (1) tingkat partisipasi masyarakat dalam pengelolaan APL–BM pada keseluruhan tahapan kegiatan adalah rendah dan (2) faktor – faktor yang berpengaruh terhadap tingkat partisipasi masyarakat adalah kemampuan organisasi dan motivasi masyarakat. Kedua faktor tersebut dipengaruhi oleh indikator pendekatan komunikasi, kesesuaian konsepsi program dan intensitas peran penyuluhan. Title: Community’s Participation in Managing Community Based – Marine Protected Area in Kepulauan Seribu District, DKI JakartaIn the last two decades, the coral reef ecosystem in Kepulauan Seribu has shown a significant degradation. Considered this, in 2004 the government of Kepulauan Seribu District initiated collaborative program in five villages and the program called as community based–marine protected area. The researchobjectives were: (1) to analyze community’s participation level in managing marine protected area in Kepulauan Seribu District and (2) to analyze the determinant factors that influence the community’s participation. The data were collected from June 2011 – May 2012 by using questionnare, observation and reviewing existing documents. Units of analizing were 202 respondents of primary stakeholders that utilize fisheries–marine resources directly. The data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics based on structural equation modelling (SEM). The conclusions of the study are: (1) the levelof community’s participation in managing marine protected is low and (2) this condition is influenced by community organisation’s ability and community’s motivation. Community organisation’s ability and motivation are in low level. The factors which influence community organisation’s’ ability and community’s motivation are communication approaches, the compatibility of program conception and intensity of extention agents roles.

Community-based conservation as a potential source of conflict around a protected area in Sierra Leone

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 242-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
LINCOLN R. LARSON ◽  
APRIL L. CONWAY ◽  
KATHLEEN E. KRAFTE ◽  
SONIA M. HERNANDEZ ◽  
JOHN P. CARROLL
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Conservation ◽  
Ecological Resources ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Residents Attitudes

SUMMARYCommunity-based conservation efforts are designed to foster local stewardship of important ecological resources. However, inequitable distribution of costs and benefits in communities surrounding protected areas can negatively impact livelihoods, increase wealth disparities and create conflict. To examine the potential for conflict between host communities involved in a community-based conservation program and neighbouring (non-host) communities, we explored local residents’ attitudes towards conservation at Tiwai Island Wildlife Sanctuary (TIWS) in Sierra Leone. Intercept surveys (n = 368) were conducted in 18 villages (eight host, ten non-host) within 8 km of TIWS during 2010. Results revealed significant differences between residents of the host and non-host villages with respect to attitudes towards resource use and overall support for site protection. The most substantial discrepancies centred on perceived benefits associated with TIWS, and these drastically different perspectives generated a high potential for conflict. To minimize conflict and foster broader community support for conservation, managers must carefully consider how benefits associated with protected areas are communicated and distributed across protected area-proximate landscapes.

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