PCLG Digest

September 2021

Edition Two

This edition features 19 new resources. Other relevant news –

Awards and funding opportunities

The Collaborative Partnership on Forests has opened calls to nominate an individual for the Wangari Maathai Forest Champions Award for having improved our forests and the lives of people who depend on them. Deadline 15 October
The Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science (University of Oxford) has just announced the A. G. Leventis African Biodiversity Fellowship Programme for African nationals working in biodiversity conservation to spend 3 months in Oxford. Apply by 29 October

Jobs and research positions

Oxford University, Cornell University, WWF Germany and Jamma International are looking for students to work on a 3 year project looking at morally contested conservation in Africa. Ideally the students should be African nationals enrolled in an African university. Deadline 15 October

- Olivia and Ruth (pclg@iied.org)

PCLG's top reads!

1. Brittain S, Tugendhat H, Newing H and E.J. Milner-Gulland (2021) Conservation and the rights of Indigenous peoples and local communities: Looking forwards. Oryx. DOI: 10.1017/S0030605321000946 (Open access)

2. de Lange E, Milner-Gulland E.J. and A Keane (2021) Effects of social networks on interventions to change conservation behaviour. Conservation Biology. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13833

3. Heisel S, et al (2021) Assessing ecological knowledge, perceived agency, and motivations regarding wildlife and wildlife conservation in Samburu, Kenya. Biological Conservation. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109305

4. Lunstrum E, et al (2021) The rhino horn trade and radical inequality as environmental conflict. Journal of Peasant Studies. DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2021.1961130

Also, check out the three special issues of Policy Matters from IUCN CEESP on the theme ‘The stories and voices of environmental defenders across the globe’ (all articles open access).

Human-wildlife conflict

5. Ardiantiono, et al (2021) Towards coexistence: Can people's attitudes explain their willingness to live with Sumatran elephants in Indonesia? Conservation Science and Practice. DOI: 10.1111/csp2.520 (Open access)

6. Cummings A (2021) An exploratory analysis of stakeholders and their influence on human–Jaguar conflict in Guyana. Human Dimensions of Wildlife. DOI: 10.1080/10871209.2021.1967524

7. Kifle Z (2021) Human-olive baboon (Papio anubis) conflict in the human-modified landscape, Wollo, Ethiopia. Global Ecology and Conservation. DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01820 (Open access)

8. Leblan V and S Soiret (2021) The future of human-chimpanzee coexistence in West Africa: Reconsidering the role of shifting agriculture in chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) conservation planning. Conservation Science and Practice. DOI: 10.1111/csp2.496 (Open access)

9. Lele Y, Sharma J and A Srivastava (2021) Mitigating human wildlife conflict and climate change in Dudhwa Tiger Reserve, Uttar Pradesh through the approach of carbon finance. Ecology, Environment & Conservation. Available here (PDF)

Hunting

10. Bailey C, et al (2021) Trends in the bushmeat market trade in North Sulawesi and conservation implications. Animal Conservation. DOI: 10.1111/acv.12723

11. Kurz D, et al (2021) Transformation and endurance of Indigenous hunting: Kadazandusun-Murut bearded pig hunting practices amidst oil palm expansion and urbanization in Sabah, Malaysia. People and Nature. DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10250 (Open access)

12. van Houdt S, et al (2021) Divergent views on trophy hunting in Africa, and what this may mean for research and policy. Conservation Letters. DOI: 10.1111/conl.12840 (Open access)

PES

13. Maithya J, Ming’ate F and S Letema (2021) Local communities’ awareness on payments for ecosystem services for improved livelihood and conservation of Nyando Wetland, Kenya. Tanzania Journal of Science. DOI: 10.4314/tjs.v47i3.8 (Open access)

14. Ramcilovic-Suominen S, Carodenuto S, McDermott C and J Hiedanpää (2021) Environmental justice and REDD+ safeguards in Laos: Lessons from an authoritarian political regime. Ambio. DOI: 10.1007/s13280-021-01618-7 (Open access)

15. Truong Pham V, Roongtawanreongsri S, Quoc Ho T and P Hanh Niekdam Tran (2021) Can payments for forest environmental services help improve income and attitudes toward forest conservation? Household-level evaluation in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Forest Policy and Economics. DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102578

16. Villhauer B (2021) Transforming REDD+ for Indigenous rights in Costa Rica. International Journal of Justice and Sustainability. DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2021.1972953

Tourism

17. Boustead R and S Bhatta (2021) Assessment of the social impacts of community based tourism. Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft. DOI: 10.1515/tw-2021-0010

18. Qian Z (2021) Territorial governance, market integration and Indigenous citizens in China’s state-led eco-tourism: Developing the Xixi National Wetland Park. Journal of China Tourism Research. DOI: 10.1080/19388160.2021.1973932

Wildlife trade (legal and illegal)

19. Heermans B, et al (2021) Husbandry and herding: A community-based approach to addressing illegal wildlife trade in northern Botswana. Frontiers in Conservation Science. DOI: 10.3389/fcosc.2021.675493 (Open access)

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