Small-Scale Fisheries versus Whale-Watching Tourism: The Story of Puerto López
This article addresses the social implications of fishers leaving activities connected with small-scale fisheries, with an emphasis on food sovereignty.
This article addresses the social implications of fishers leaving activities connected with small-scale fisheries, with an emphasis on food sovereignty.
The authors provide an overview of the scientific and traditional knowledge that the Zaira community, located in the Solomon Islands, uses to underpin their community-based management regime of Leatherback Sea Turtles. This highlights the important role local communities play in the conservation of iconic species.
Douglas Sheil reviews the book Traditional Forest-Related Knowledge Sustaining Communities, Ecosystems and Biocultural Diversity by John A. Parrotta and Ronald L. Trosper.
The authors explore the on-the-ground reality of Burunge Wildlife Management Area (WMA), stressing the misrepresentation of conservation policies in WMAs at the expense of local communities.
The authors critically discuss the idea of “community participation” through a case study in Sierra de Huautla Biosphere Reserve (SDHBR) in Mexico.
Adam Amir follows decolonizing and feminist methodologies to develop a form of communal participatory video production for portraying the last 300 remaining Cross River gorillas and their role in indigenous values and conservation efforts.
This paper uses data from a long-term ethnography of both the local people and the conservation agenda in the Pantanal wetland, Brazil, to discuss how environmentalists used the National Policy for the Sustainable Development of Traditional Peoples and Communities (PNDSPCT) to justify the displacement of local people.
This paper uses a comparative case study approach to explore the individual and societal desire to maintain current lion populations alongside communities in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, Tanzania’s Ruaha National Park, and Kenya’s southern Maasailand.