scholarly journals Contemporary Rāhui: placing Indigenous, conservation, and sustainability sciences in community-led conservation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pauline Fabre ◽  
Tamatoa Bambridge ◽  
Joachim Claudet ◽  
Eleanor Sterling ◽  
Alexander Mawyer
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Conservation

Prestige, taboo, and sustainability: predicting wildlife population trajectories in indigenous commerce

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clark. S. Monson ◽  
Paul Alan Cox
Keyword(s):  
Foraging Strategy ◽  
Conservation Strategy ◽  
Flying Foxes ◽  
Wildlife Population ◽  
Indigenous Conservation ◽  
Optimal Foraging Strategy ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Extinction Model ◽  
Over Exploitation

Commercial traffic in plants and animals has led to severe declines for some species, while others have experienced few if any negative impacts. Given the uncertainty regarding which species are likely to be adversely affected by monetized trade, it would be useful to have a model that could predict wildlife population trajectories of wild-gathered species subsequent to commercialization. We suggest that the indigenous conservation strategy of "taboo" offers important insights into identifying species that are susceptible to over-exploitation through commercial traffic. We describe an economic conservation/extinction model based on the dual concepts of taboo and optimal foraging strategy and examine the model through a detailed case study of vulnerability to perturbation in the case of commercial traffic in Pacific island flying foxes. We suggest that tile virtual eradication of flying foxes from the island of Guam during the Twentieth Century resulted from a cultural predilection among the indigenous Chamorro people for consuming flying foxes coupled with the cultural loss of the traditional taboo conservation system on the island.

scholarly journals A Critical Review of Environmental Conservation in Zimbabwe

2013 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Munyaradzi Mawere
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Scientific Models ◽  
Environmental Anthropology ◽  
Stink Bugs ◽  
Indigenous Epistemologies ◽  
Considerable Success ◽  
Indigenous Conservation ◽  
Communal Area ◽  
Border Thinking

The discourse on “environmental conservation” is highly dynamic and has generated controversies of epic proportions in conservation sciences and environmental anthropology. Given the nebulous nature of conservation, coupled with the varying interpretations evoked by the deployment of the concept across different disciplines, a more robust understanding of the notion calls into question its practical manifestations and application in particular situated contexts – particularly within the conservation sciences and environmental anthropology. In Zimbabwe, conservation by the state has tended to favour and privilege Western scientific models at the expense of the “indigenous” conservation practices of local people, as informed by their indigenous epistemologies. This paper thus represents an attempt to rethink conservation in Zimbabwe, adopting the Norumedzo communal area in south-eastern Zimbabwe as its case study. The choice of Norumedzo is based on the fact that this is one area where the highly esteemed and delicious harurwa (edible stink bugs, Encosternum delegorguei) are found. As a result of these insects being valued as “actors” and the appreciation shown to both Western and indigenous epistemologies, conservation in the area has enjoyed considerable success. To this end, this paper lends support to the arguments of Walter Mignolo and Ramon Grosfoguel in their advocacy for critical border thinking in issues of knowledge regarding environmental conservation.

Putting indigenous conservation policy into practice delivers biodiversity and cultural benefits

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (14) ◽  
pp. 2889-2906 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilie Ens ◽  
Mitchell. L. Scott ◽  
Yugul Mangi Rangers ◽  
Craig Moritz ◽  
Rebecca Pirzl
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Policy ◽  
Indigenous Conservation

Kaitiakitanga: Maori perspectives on conservation

1995 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mere Roberts ◽  
Waerete Norman ◽  
Nganeko Minhinnick ◽  
Del Wihongi ◽  
Carmen Kirkwood
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
World View ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Traditional Beliefs ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Conservation Movement ◽  
Indigenous Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Indigenous Conservation ◽  
Cultural Responses

Maori, like other indigenous peoples, are increasingly involved in attempts to provide appropriate cultural responses to environmental issues. These include efforts to translate and incorporate isolated parts of their language and traditional practises into the prevailing culture. Major problems with this process are the incommensurability of such attempts whereby the real meaning of a custom or word is frequently debased and divorced from its traditional cultural setting, so that its proper functioning is impaired. Added to this is the ignorance on the part of many concerning the conceptual world view, traditional beliefs and practices of the Maori ? or, if knowing these things, a lack of respect for their validity. On the other hand there are some, especially among the modern conservation movement, who have a more empathetic attitude towards indigenous ecological knowledge, but who thereby assume that their environmental ethics and those of indigenous peoples are motivated by similar philosophies and share similar aims. Not only is this assumption often wrong, it may also contribute to the inability of the western conservation movement to properly serve the needs of, and to fully empower, indigenous conservation aspirations as guaranteed to Maori under the Treaty of Waitangi. This paper addresses some of these issues by providing Maori perspectives on an increasingly important environmental concept: that of kaitiaki, and kaitiakitanga.

The Immovable Object: Mitigation as Indigenous Conservation

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Caroline Butler ◽  
Bruce Watkinson ◽  
James Witzke
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Conservation ◽  
Immovable Object

scholarly journals Indigenous Conservation Practices Are Not a Monolith: Western cultural biases and a lack of engagement with Indigenous experts undermine studies of land stewardship

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelsey Leonard ◽  
Jared Dahl Aldern ◽  
Amy Christianson ◽  
Darren Ranco ◽  
Casey Thornbrugh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
New England ◽  
Conservation Practices ◽  
Conservation Implications ◽  
Indigenous Conservation ◽  
Land Stewardship

Commentary On: Oswald, W. W., Foster, D. R., Shuman, B. N., Chilton, E. S., Doucette, D. L., Duranleau, D. L. Conservation implications of limited Native American impacts in pre-contact New England. Nature Sustainability https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0466-0

scholarly journals Corrigendum 2 (published 29 Oct 2021) to: What does it mean to be for a Place?

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 507
Author(s):  
Stephanie B. Borrelle ◽  
Jonathan B. Koch ◽  
Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie ◽  
Kurt E. Ingeman ◽  
Bonnie M. McGill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Conservation Biology ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Policy Statement ◽  
Conservation Practices ◽  
Critical Area ◽  
Thought Process ◽  
Conservation Science ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Indigenous Conservation

Indigenous knowledge is a multilayered knowledge system that can effectively manage global ecosystem and biodiversity conservation. Conservation is an applied discipline with the goal of preserving the world's biodiversity and ecosystems. However, settler–coloniser conservation practices often fail to fully examine how settler–coloniser epistemologies are centred at the expense of Indigenous conservation praxis. Evaluating how conservation practices outside of an Indigenous lens can become more inclusive and just is a critical area for research and reflection. We draw on our own experiences as early-career researchers working towards anticolonial, just and inclusive approaches to conservation science and practice by discussing what it means to be for a Place. We believe that a non-Indigenous conservationist who is for a Place advocates for inclusive stewardship with Indigenous Peoples and other marginalised communities to conserve species and ecosystems and the connections that bind communities to their landscapes. As an example of how settler–coloniser conservation practitioners can be for a Place, we discuss writing a policy statement in 2019 on behalf of the Society for Conservation Biology opposing the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawai‘i. We describe the thought process behind our policy statement and provide examples of other actions for conservation researchers and practitioners working to be for a Place. We aim to provide our colleagues, particularly those trained in settler–coloniser conservation practices, an opportunity to identify more just practices for the Places we aspire to conserve.

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