肯尼亚塔纳河下游流域鳄鱼面临的人为威胁及其利用水平和社会人口决定因素

IF 1.7 4区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION
Margaret N. Mosse, Wilfred O. Odadi, Grace W. Kibue
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背景与研究目的在全球范围内,鳄鱼放牧计划旨在为当地社区带来生计利益,并激励鳄鱼保护工作。然而,在许多人类主导的热带景观中,需要对其背景进行科学评估。我们调查了对鳄鱼的人为威胁,并研究了肯尼亚塔纳河下游流域利用鳄鱼的水平和社会人口决定因素。方法 我们进行了 7 次关键信息提供者访谈、4 次焦点小组讨论和 1 次定量家庭调查,涉及从当地村庄随机抽取的 365 名受访者。我们对鳄鱼面临的人为威胁和其他定性数据进行了专题分析。我们使用描述性统计对定量数据进行了总结,并使用多项式逻辑回归分析了选定的社会人口变量与鳄鱼利用率之间的关系。结果鳄鱼面临的主要人为威胁是农业向其栖息地的扩张、报复性捕杀以及食用鳄鱼肉和鳄鱼蛋。只有 5%的受访者合法利用鳄鱼,32%的受访者非法利用鳄鱼。年龄越大、收入越高、男性和基督徒都会增加非法利用鳄鱼的可能性。我们的研究表明,尽管塔纳河下游实施了一项长期放牧计划,但鳄鱼仍面临着多种人为威胁。此外,当地社区对该计划的参与度很低,而且不同社会人口群体的参与度存在明显差异。总之,我们的研究结果表明,在这种地貌条件下实施的鳄鱼放牧在很大程度上无法有效实现其预期的社会经济和保护目标。我们建议针对特定群体开展能力建设和提高认识活动,以提高当地社区对鳄鱼可持续利用的参与度,并尽量减少对鳄鱼有害的行为。
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Anthropogenic Threats to Crocodiles, and the Level and Sociodemographic Determinants of their Utilization in Lower River Tana Basin, Kenya
Background and Research AimsGlobally, crocodile ranching programs are intended to generate livelihood benefits for local communities and incentives for crocodile conservation. However, there is need for their contextual scientific evaluation in many human-dominated tropical landscapes. We investigated the anthropogenic threats to crocodiles, and examined the level and sociodemographic determinants of their utilization in lower River Tana basin, Kenya.MethodsWe conducted seven key informant interviews, four focus group discussions and a quantitative household survey involving 365 respondents randomly selected from local villages. We analyzed anthropogenic threats to crocodiles and other qualitative data thematically. We summarized quantitative data using descriptive statistics and used multinomial logistic regression to analyze the association between selected sociodemographic variables and crocodile utilization.ResultsThe main anthropogenic threats to crocodiles were agricultural expansion into their habitat, their retaliatory killing, and consumption of their meat and eggs. Only 5% of the respondents utilized crocodiles legally, whereas 32% utilized them illegally. Increasing age, increasing income, being male and being Christian all increased the likelihood of illegal crocodile utilization. Being male increased the likelihood of legal crocodile utilization, whereas increasing age decreased this likelihood.ConclusionsOur study demonstrates multiple anthropogenic threats to crocodiles in lower River Tana despite a long-term ranching program. Furthermore, local community participation in this program is marginal and markedly varies among sociodemographic groups. Taken together, our findings suggest that crocodile ranching, as practiced in this landscape, is largely ineffective in achieving its intended socioeconomic and conservation goals.Conservation ImplicationsTo enhance their effectiveness, crocodile ranching programs in such landscapes should be tailored for local socio-cultural contexts. We recommend capacity building and awareness raising initiatives tailored for specific groups to increase local community participation in sustainable crocodile utilization and minimize their engagement in practices that are detrimental to crocodiles.
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Tropical Conservation Science
Tropical Conservation Science BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION-
CiteScore
3.60
自引率
5.90%
发文量
16
审稿时长
>12 weeks
期刊介绍: Tropical Conservation Science is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research papers and state-of-the-art reviews of broad interest to the field of conservation of tropical forests and of other tropical ecosystems.
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