Tropical biologists, local people and conservation: new opportunities for collaboration

Tropical biologists need help. Examples show that local people can be trained to be effective parataxonomists, greatly assisting efforts to document and assess tropical biodiversity. Local collaborations also offer promising ways with which to improve natural resource management and conservation. Ho...

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Autores principales: Sheil, Douglas, Lawrence, A.
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/19076
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description Tropical biologists need help. Examples show that local people can be trained to be effective parataxonomists, greatly assisting efforts to document and assess tropical biodiversity. Local collaborations also offer promising ways with which to improve natural resource management and conservation. However, for several reasons, most biologists remain slow to approve and implement these approaches. The challenges and potentials need evaluation and neglect means that opportunities are being missed. The authors consider experiences of local collaborations and discuss obstacles to their wider implementation. They urge tropical biologists to recognize and embrace the opportunities provided by working with local people.
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spelling CGSpace190762025-01-24T14:12:07Z Tropical biologists, local people and conservation: new opportunities for collaboration Sheil, Douglas Lawrence, A. taxonomy biodiversity conservation biologists local people collaboration Tropical biologists need help. Examples show that local people can be trained to be effective parataxonomists, greatly assisting efforts to document and assess tropical biodiversity. Local collaborations also offer promising ways with which to improve natural resource management and conservation. However, for several reasons, most biologists remain slow to approve and implement these approaches. The challenges and potentials need evaluation and neglect means that opportunities are being missed. The authors consider experiences of local collaborations and discuss obstacles to their wider implementation. They urge tropical biologists to recognize and embrace the opportunities provided by working with local people. 2004 2012-06-04T09:09:06Z 2012-06-04T09:09:06Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/19076 en Sheil, D., Lawrence, A. 2004. Tropical biologists, local people and conservation: new opportunities for collaboration . Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19 (12) :634-638.
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Tropical biologists, local people and conservation: new opportunities for collaboration
title Tropical biologists, local people and conservation: new opportunities for collaboration
title_full Tropical biologists, local people and conservation: new opportunities for collaboration
title_fullStr Tropical biologists, local people and conservation: new opportunities for collaboration
title_full_unstemmed Tropical biologists, local people and conservation: new opportunities for collaboration
title_short Tropical biologists, local people and conservation: new opportunities for collaboration
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biodiversity
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