community-based preferences for economic incentives to promote biodiversity conservation in a tropical rainforest

Commentary: Anthropogenic disturbances jeopardize biodiversity conservation within tropical rainforest reserves

Tropical Rainforest Conservation: A Global Perspective

The five major rainforest regions (Asia, Africa, Madagascar, Neotropics, and New Guinea) are distinct ecological and biogeographical entities, each with its own levels of threat from various human activities. The purpose of this chapter is to review these threats, and then to evaluate the conservation strategies being used to deal with them. Across the tropics, commercial logging is increasingl...

Biodiversity conservation in tropical agroecosystems: a new conservation paradigm.

It is almost certainly the case that many populations have always existed as metapopulations, leading to the conclusion that local extinctions are common and normally balanced by migrations. This conclusion has major consequences for biodiversity conservation in fragmented tropical forests and the agricultural matrices in which they are embedded. Here we make the argument that the conservation ...

Developing incentives and economic mechanisms for in situ biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes

The main focus of this paper is agrobiodiversity and its effects on agricultural production within agricultural landscapes. The interest is to shed light about the fundamental causes of agrobiodiversity loss by focusing upon the institutional or meso-economic environment that mediates farmers’ decentralized decisions. Since the main causes of farmers’ decisions to ‘disinvest’ in agrobiodiversit...

Response: Commentary: Anthropogenic disturbances jeopardize biodiversity conservation within tropical rainforest reserves

Anthropogenic disturbances affecting tropical forest reserves have been documented, but their ecological long-term cumulative effects are poorly understood. Habitat fragmentation and defaunation are two major anthropogenic threats to the integrity of tropical reserves. Based on a long-term (four decades) study, we document how these disturbances synergistically disrupt ecological processes and ...

Gender Differentiated Preferences for a Community-Based Conservation Initiative

Community-based conservation (CBC) aims to benefit local people as well as to achieve conservation goals, but has been criticised for taking a simplistic view of "community" and failing to recognise differences in the preferences and motivations of community members. We explore this heterogeneity in the context of Kenya's conservancies, focussing on the livelihood preferences of men and women l...