Susana Costa, Catarina Casanova, and Phyllis Lee present a study of the obstacles to women’s participation in conservation strategies associated with Cantanhez Forest National Park (CFNP), in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa. The findings revealed that the women felt the Park was responsible for malnutrition in the communities due to damage of crops by wildlife.
This collection brings a Canadian perspective to the growing field of animal history, ranging across species and cities, from the beavers who engineered Stanley Park to the carthorses who shaped the city of Montreal. Some essays consider animals as spectacle, while others examine the bodily intimacies of shared urban spaces.
McKenzie F. Johnson, Krithi K. Karanth, and Erika Weinthal evaluate compensation as a mitigation policy for human-wildlife conflict around four protected areas in Rajasthan (Jaisamand, Sitamata, Phulwari, and Kumbhalgarh), finding efforts insensitive to local livelihoods.
This article looks at changing perceptions of whales along the coasts of Portugal.
Through a quantitative questionnaire survey conducted in villages around the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in northern Congo, the authors assess local attitudes towards conservation and elephant conservation in particular.
The authors delve into the social reasons behind illegal turtle egg harvesting in the La Flor Wildlife Refuge in Nicaragua, based on a survey conducted among 180 households living in Ostional, the largest village in the vicinity of the Refuge.
The authors assess the governance of the Hin Nam No National Protected Area in central Laos to understand the possibilities of supporting fruitful collaborative governance of protected areas.
The cult of Bonbibi worship in the Sundarbans mangrove forests can inform conservation practices.
Between 1905 and 1912, experts on fisheries and hydraulic engineering collaborated in order to erect a fishway at the Hemelinger dam.
In the 1960s, real-time aerial observations supported mixed forms of land use in African national parks.
