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Campos-Silva, João Vitor, Hawes, Joseph E., Freitas, Carolina T., Andrade, Paulo C.M. and Peres, Carlos A. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1588-8765
(2020)
Community-Based Management of Amazonian Biodiversity Assets.
In:
Participatory Biodiversity Conservation.
Springer, pp. 99-111.
ISBN 9783030416850
Abstract
The Amazon is the largest forest system on Earth, supporting a variety of indigenous societies, small farmers, extractivists, and artisanal fishers with different cultures and relations with wildlife. However, the Brazilian Amazon has lost more than 436, 000 km2 of forest in the last 30 years, and Protected Areas may not be enough to ensure the conservation of biodiversity and cultural heritage. On the other hand, formal alliances with rural inhabitants can decentralize resource management, strengthen full-time surveillance systems, reduce overall costs, and boost conservation effectiveness. Here, we provide an assessment of the two largest community-based management (CBM) programs in the Brazilian Amazon, which are inducing strong social and ecological benefits at a large scale. First, we show the benefits from CBM of giant arapaima, which has promoted an impressive stock recovery of the world’s largest freshwater scaled fish (Arapaima spp.), generating income and other benefits for rural livelihoods in Amazonian floodplains. Second, we show that CBM of freshwater turtles (Podocnemis spp.) has also promoted the population recovery of overexploited turtles, contributing to the maintenance of important cultural values. We also identified a set of social and institutional principles, and the intrinsic values of natural resources, which can help develop successful CBM programs. Finally, we discuss how these principles can strengthen existing initiatives and/or inspire new ones. Reconciling biodiversity conservation and local aspirations for rural development is an urgent socioecological demand in Amazonia. Raising the profile of successful initiatives can be a powerful strategy to disseminate a message of hope and action to local and international agencies that can support the scaling up of these successful models.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | Publisher Copyright: © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | arapaima,co-management,fisheries,podocnemis,protected areas,socioecological system,sustainable development,turtles,agricultural and biological sciences(all),environmental science(all),sdg 15 - life on land ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1100 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jun 2023 11:14 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Oct 2024 13:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/92439 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-41686-7_7 |
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