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Conservation Organizations Should Collaborate with Ethnographers to Better Understand Human-Wildlife Interactions

By Sayan Banerjee, Doctoral Scholar, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, India One of the key tenets of contemporary global wildlife conservation research and practice is understanding and managing human-wildlife interactions, reducing damages (or conflict) to both, and enhancing coexistence (Madden, 2004; Nyhus, 2016). Understanding these interactions is operationalized through Read more…

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The History of the Invisible Village: Leveraging Social Sciences for Community-Led Conservation

Paul Hasan Thung, Planet Indonesia The social sciences are increasingly seen as essential for conservation success. However, the focus should not just be on generating knowledge about local communities; otherwise, there is a risk that the conservation social sciences will reproduce historical injustices. In Indonesia, residents of resource-rich areas are Read more…

By SSWG, ago