NDLI: Community attitudes toward forest conservation programs through collaborative protected area management in Bangladesh

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Author	Chowdhury, Mohammad Shaheed Hossain Gudmundsson, Chloe Izumiyama, Shigeyuki Koike, Masao Nazia, Nahid Rana, Md. Parvez Mukul, Sharif Ahmed Muhammed, Nur Redowan, Mohammed
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	The formulation of conservation policies with options for creating protected areas is significantly influenced by the social factors of the surrounding communities. Therefore, indigenous knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of the local communities need to be explored during the planning and implementation stages of conservation projects. A government-initiated experiment in co-management was conducted in the Rema-Kalenga Wildlife Sanctuary, Bangladesh. This paper analyzes the attitudes toward conservation by members of local communities living in and around the wildlife sanctuary. Training incentives on alternative income-generating (AIG) activities and allotment of agricultural lands were distributed among the Forest User Groups. It is of interest to policy makers and resource managers whether this technique leads to improved attitudes on the part of local people. Although there were different attitudes toward protected areas and conservation, overall, a favorable attitude of the respondents was observed. The opinions of respondents also varied based on factors such as village position, village dependency level on forest resources, ethnicity and gender. Increase in annual income resulting from the augmented skills by trainings on AIG activities and getting agricultural lands leased from the Forest Department contributed significantly to the variation in respondents’ conservation attitudes. It is suggested that eliminating inequity and inequality in incentive distribution, discovering and launching training on more need-based livelihood activities, and liberalizing the restriction of resource extraction from the protected area by fixing the harvesting limit would encourage the community to be more cordially and actively involved in the conservation efforts of the sanctuary.
Starting Page	1235
Ending Page	1252
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF
ISSN	1387585X
Journal	Environment, Development and Sustainability
Volume Number	16
Issue Number	6
e-ISSN	15732975
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2014-03-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Biodiversity conservation Protected area Stakeholders Forest User Group Bangladesh Sustainable Development Environmental Management Environmental Economics Ecology Economic Growth Economic Geology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Geography, Planning and Development Economics and Econometrics Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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