Environmental Education as a Component of Multidisciplinary Conservation Programs: Lessons from Conservation Initiatives for Critically Endangered Fruit Bats in the Western Indian Ocean

Trewhella, W. J.; Rodríguez-Clark, Kathryn M.; Corp, Nadia; Entwistle, Abigail; Garrett, Simon; Granek, Elise F.; Lengel, K. L.; Raboude, M. J.; Reason, Paola; Sewall, Brent J.

doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00548.x

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“…A multi-faceted education and awareness program in the Comoros Islands is a good example of how outreach can lead to changes in attitude and behavior that support conservation. Local citizens became involved in monitoring bat populations and directing conservation management (Trewhella et al 2005). …”

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“…12.1), as well as in Cameroon, Congo Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. High levels of hunting have also been reported in the past from islands off Africa-the Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius and Rodrigues and São Tomé and Príncipe as well as Pemba Island, Tanzania (Jenkins and Racey 2008;Carvalho et al 2014), although conservation efforts have reduced this pressure in some of these islands (Trewhella et al 2005).While occasional bat hunting occurs in Mali and Zambia, there is almost no hunting in East Africa, except eastern Uganda, and bat hunting is rare in South Africa (Mickleburgh et al 2009). Bats are also persecuted because of negative perceptions in Ethiopia (Mickleburgh et al 2009) but that is not the focus of this chapter.…”

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Exploitation of Bats for Bushmeat and Medicine

Mildenstein

Tanshi

Racey

2015

Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World

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Bat hunting for consumption as bushmeat and medicine is widespread and affects at least 167 species of bats (or c. 13 % of the world's bat species), in Africa, Asia, across the islands of Oceania, and to a lesser extent in Central and South America. Hunting is particularly prevalent among the large-bodied fruit bats of the Old World tropics, where half (50 %, 92/183) the extant species in the family Pteropodidae are hunted. Pteropodids that are hunted are six times more likely to be Red Listed as threatened: 66 % of species in IUCN threatened categories (CR, EN, VU, NT), compared to 11 % of species in the 'Least Concern' (LC) category. However, there still appears to be an information gap at the international level. One third of the hunted species on the Red List are not considered threatened by that hunting, and nearly a quarter of the bat species included in this review are not listed as hunted in IUCN Red List species accounts. This review has resulted in a comprehensive list of hunted bats that doubles the number of species known from either the IUCN Red List species accounts or a questionnaire circulated in 2004. More research is needed on the impacts of unregulated hunting, as well as on the sustainability of regulated hunting programs. In the absence of population size and growth data, legislators and managers should be precautionary in their attitude towards hunting. Roost site protection should be a priority as it is both logistically simpler than patrolling bat foraging grounds and reduces the comparatively larger scale mortality and stress that hunting at the roost can cause. Education and awareness campaigns within local communities should demonstrate how bats are a limited resource and emphasize characteristics (nocturnal, slow reproducing and colonial) that make them particularly vulnerable to hunting pressure. IntroductionMost of the chapters in this book (Voigt and Kingston 2016) consider negative consequences for bats from indirect effects of anthropogenic perturbations. In contrast, this chapter explores the direct exploitation of bats by humans for bushmeat and medicine.A global review of bats as bushmeat was published in 2009 providing an overview of bat hunting based on published literature and a questionnaire widely distributed among bat biologists in (Mickleburgh et al. 2009). Here, we summarize what is currently known about the exploitation of bats for consumption and medicinal use, synthesizing the 2009 review with what has been published since and unpublished information the authors have gathered from colleagues. The result is a comprehensive list of hunted bats species that contains nearly twice as many species as known from either the IUCN Red List species accounts or the 2009 review. It is unclear whether the increased concern about hunting is the result of greater actual hunting pressure, or just represents our increased understanding of hunting impacts. What is clear is that reviews now explicitly attribute species declines and extinction risk to hunting pressure.Most of t...

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Tanshi

Racey

2015

Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World

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“…As the flying foxes only arrived at this site recently it is important to recognize the value of working with village groups because in many cases traditional beliefs are open to new interpretation or dilution through demographic mixing (Banks et al 2007). The value of conveying the ecological importance and conservation status of threatened flying foxes to local communities and the general public is well established in the western Indian Ocean (Trewhella et al 2005). In the Anosy Region, additional support to community groups in the form of awareness raising will benefit P. rufus conservation and assist the preservation of traditional taboos and beliefs.…”

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Three flying fox (Pteropodidae: Pteropus rufus) roosts, three conservation challenges in southeastern Madagascar

Rahaingodrahety¹,

Andriafidison²,

Ratsimbazafy³

et al. 2009

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“…Similarly to these suggested methods, educational outputs (including posters, stickers, videos, lesson plans, and workshops), primarily linking human needs to the ecosystem services provided by bats, were delivered to schools and community groups while, local environmental educators were trained to further develop the environmental education programs (EEPs), for the conservation of Critically Endangered Fruit Bats in the Western Indian Ocean (Trewhella et al, 2005).…”

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Environmental education and ecotourism using termitaria research findings: A case study of Pendjari reserve, Benin

Dossou-Yovo¹,

Vodouhè²,

Assogbadjo³

et al. 2017

J. Ecol. Nat. Environ.

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Findings are available on termitaria and their vegetation in the Pendjari Biosphere Reserve and otherSudanian regions in West Africa, but research without dissemination and impacts on communities seems not to be useful. This work aims at providing non-governmental organization (NGOs) and forestry advisers with useful data for environmental education projects and taking termitaria and their vegetation into account for ecotourism in Pendjari Reserve. This article on termitaria and termitariarelated vegetation summarizes data useful for two purposes. Traditional knowledge on termitaria is useful for education; termitaria plants are used as medicine. Mushrooms growing on termitaria and small mammals living in dead and abandoned mounds are consumed in the reserve. There is a need to train kids and students on termitaria and their vegetation conservation. The panoramic view of mounds and their vegetation is really attractive to tourists. Vegetation on termitaria differs between management types of an area and is dominated by woody species belonging mostly to Combretaceae botanical group. Cappareae species seem restricted to termitaria. The three major ethnic groups in the Reserve hold a diversity of ethnological knowledge on termitaria and their vegetation. These can serve for ecotourism development towards termitaria to lower poverty probability of small households in the Reserve.

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Environmental Education as a Component of Multidisciplinary Conservation Programs: Lessons from Conservation Initiatives for Critically Endangered Fruit Bats in the Western Indian Ocean

Cited by 68 publications

References 21 publications

Exploitation of Bats for Bushmeat and Medicine

Exploitation of Bats for Bushmeat and Medicine

Three flying fox (Pteropodidae: Pteropus rufus) roosts, three conservation challenges in southeastern Madagascar

Environmental education and ecotourism using termitaria research findings: A case study of Pendjari reserve, Benin

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