Summary
Key takeaway: A set of eight principles for building successful and ethical conservation partnerships with local communities in the habitat of a threatened species.
Highlights: Based on two decades of experience and drawing from ideas developed in various scientific fields, our team has distilled a set of eight principles for successful community-based conservation. They’ve published both a scientific paper and a book introducing the principles and providing case studies to help practitioners apply them to their work.
Why it matters: While the importance of engaging and partnering with local communities for biodiversity conservation is well-documented, there is an almost complete lack of practical frameworks for how to do so effectively and ethically. The principles introduced here aim to fill this gap.
Title: Building partnerships with communities for biodiversity conservation: lessons from Asian mountains
Publication: Journal of Applied Ecology