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Sumarwati S. Traditional ecological knowledge on the slope of Mount Lawu, Indonesia: all about non-rice food security. JOURNAL OF ETHNIC FOODS 2022. [PMCID: PMC8899445 DOI: 10.1186/s42779-022-00120-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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AbstractAs a country with rice as the staple food, the dominant traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) on food in Indonesia is rice. However, in Tawangmangu District, Central Java Province, the TEK inherited from their ancestors is about non-rice food security. This study aimed to explore how villagers pass on and practice their knowledge and beliefs in food defense based on traditional ecological knowledge. The data were collected through FGD, interviews, and field observations of traditional ceremonial processions, agricultural activities, and natural resource management. The results showed that TEK in Tawangmangu had three themes, including (1) TEK communication and inheritance through folktales on the origin of vegetables and corn, taboo words, such as the prohibition of planting rice, and the symbolic meaning of traditional rituals and offerings; (2) the people’s philosophy is reflected in their view of God, ancestors’ spirits as folktales figures, village guards’ spirits, and other living things. The folktales protagonists’ spirits are asked to provide protection, while the antagonists' spirits are asked not to interfere; and (3) natural resources sustainability involves maintaining non-rice plant commodities, terraced agricultural land management, intercropping systems, managing water resource and crop yields, and traditional houses architecture. The locals protect the forest on Mount Lawu and Pringgodani Cave as their source of life by prohibiting cutting trees and reforestation.
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Ma H, Zhang D, Xiao L, Wang Y, Zhang L, Thompson C, Chen J, Dowell SD, Axmacher JC, Lü Z, Turvey ST. Integrating biodiversity conservation and local community perspectives in China through human dimensions research. PEOPLE AND NATURE 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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- Heidi Ma
- Institute of Zoology Zoological Society of London London UK
- Royal Holloway University of London Egham UK
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- Polar Research Institute of China Shanghai China
- School of Life Sciences Peking University Beijing China
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- Xi'an Jiaotong‐Liverpool University Suzhou China
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- School of Biological Sciences, Kadoorie Biological Sciences Building The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong China
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- School of Life Sciences Sun Yat‐sen University Guangzhou China
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- Institute of Zoology Zoological Society of London London UK
- Department of Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment University College London London UK
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- Cloud Mountain Conservation Dali Biodiversity Conservation and Research Center Dali China
- Institute of Anthropology National Tsing Hua University Hsinchu Taiwan
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- Department of Geography University College London London UK
- Faculty of Environmental and Forest Sciences Agricultural University of Iceland Reykjavík Iceland
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- School of Life Sciences Peking University Beijing China
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Fan P, Chen Y, Ma H, Chen T, Huang X, Wang Z. Comment on “Is Yuan in China’s Three Gorges a Gibbon or a Langur?”. INT J PRIMATOL 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s10764-022-00326-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Traditional Ecological Knowledge versus Ecological Wisdom: Are They Dissimilar in Cultural Landscape Research? LAND 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/land11081123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Research into traditional ecological knowledge has become a reference in environmental management. This is followed by ecological wisdom that has emerged and has become a new discourse in landscape planning and design. However, traditional ecological knowledge and wisdom are similar in research and confounding when determining the research scope. Therefore, this study aims to define the distinction between traditional ecological knowledge and ecological wisdom in research through a systematic review of research articles, book chapters, and reviews published from 2017 to 2021. The selected primary studies were analyzed using bibliometric analysis run by VOS Viewer, followed by comparative analysis towards thematic codes. The coding process for the comparative analysis was conducted using NVivo. This study found that research on traditional ecological knowledge and ecological wisdom converges, especially on the topic of indigenous cultural capital, ecosystem services, and sustainability. The distinction between TEK and EW lies in their definition, agent, source, and scope. We propose a conceptual framework to understand the relationship between TEK and EW in the cultural landscape and clarify the scope of the analysis in this research. This study would help scholars develop research on both topics precisely and avoid bias in the theoretical discussion.
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Ma H, Papworth SK, Ge T, Wu X, Yu C, Zhang H, Turvey ST. Local Awareness and Interpretations of Species Extinction in a Rural Chinese Biodiversity Hotspot. FRONTIERS IN CONSERVATION SCIENCE 2021. [DOI: 10.3389/fcosc.2021.689561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Incorporating local perspectives is fundamental to evidence-based conservation, for both understanding complex socio-ecological systems and implementing appropriate management interventions. How local communities understand extinction, and whether these views affect perceptions of biodiversity loss and the effect of anthropogenic activities, has rarely been evaluated explicitly in conservation projects. To target this data gap, we conducted 185 interviews to assess levels and patterns of understanding about wildlife decline and extinction in rural communities around Bawangling National Nature Reserve, Hainan, China, a priority conservation site that has experienced recent species losses. Interviewees showed varying awareness of declines and extirpation of local wildlife species. Two-thirds did not consider the permanent disappearance of wildlife to be possible; among those who did, only one-third could comprehend the scientific term “extinction.” Thinking extinction is possible was associated with identifying declined and extirpated species, but not with perceiving locally-driven human activities, such as hunting, as the reason for wildlife loss. The government was seen as the entity most responsible for conservation. Variation found around local perceptions of extinction, its drivers, and conservation responsibility demonstrates that comprehension of key conservation concepts should not be assumed to be homogenous, highlighting the challenge of transposing scientific concepts between different social and cultural settings. Proactively incorporating local perspectives and worldviews, especially by obtaining context-specific baseline understandings, has major implications for other contexts worldwide and should inform conservation planning and management.
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Low MR, Hoong WZ, Shen Z, Murugavel B, Mariner N, Paguntalan LM, Tanalgo K, Aung MM, Sheherazade ., Bansa LA, Sritongchuay T, Preble JH, Aziz SA. Bane or Blessing? Reviewing Cultural Values of Bats across the Asia-Pacific Region. J ETHNOBIOL 2021. [DOI: 10.2993/0278-0771-41.1.18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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- Mary-Ruth Low
- Project Pteropus, Rimba, 22-3A, Casa Kiara II, Jalan Kiara 5, 50480 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
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- IISER TVM Centre for Research and Education in Ecology and Evolution (ICREEE), School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, India
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- Landscape Ecology Group, Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan, China
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- Department of Zoology, University of Mandalay, Mandalay, Myanmar
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- Wildlife Conservation Society Indonesia Program, Bogor, West Java, Indonesia
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- Faculty of Natural Science and Sustainability, University College Sabah Foundation, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
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- Landscape Ecology Group, Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan, China
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- Department of Social Informatics, Biosphere Informatics Laboratory, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Project Pteropus, Rimba, 22-3A, Casa Kiara II, Jalan Kiara 5, 50480 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Reproductive phenology and its drivers in a tropical rainforest national park in China: Implications for Hainan gibbon (Nomascus hainanus) conservation. Glob Ecol Conserv 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Turvey ST, Walsh C, Hansford JP, Crees JJ, Bielby J, Duncan C, Hu K, Hudson MA. Complementarity, completeness and quality of long-term faunal archives in an Asian biodiversity hotspot. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2019; 374:20190217. [PMID: 31679488 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Long-term baselines on biodiversity change through time are crucial to inform conservation decision-making in biodiversity hotspots, but environmental archives remain unavailable for many regions. Extensive palaeontological, zooarchaeological and historical records and indigenous knowledge about past environmental conditions exist for China, a megadiverse country experiencing large-scale biodiversity loss, but their potential to understand past human-caused faunal turnover is not fully assessed. We investigate a series of complementary environmental archives to evaluate the quality of the Holocene-historical faunal record of Hainan Island, China's southernmost province, for establishing new baselines on postglacial mammalian diversity and extinction dynamics. Synthesis of multiple archives provides an integrated model of long-term biodiversity change, revealing that Hainan has experienced protracted and ongoing human-caused depletion of its mammal fauna from prehistory to the present, and that past baselines can inform practical conservation management. However, China's Holocene-historical archives exhibit substantial incompleteness and bias at regional and country-wide scales, with limited taxonomic representation especially for small-bodied species, and poor sampling of high-elevation landscapes facing current-day climate change risks. Establishing a clearer understanding of the quality of environmental archives in threatened ecoregions, and their ability to provide a meaningful understanding of the past, is needed to identify future conservation-relevant historical research priorities. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'The past is a foreign country: how much can the fossil record actually inform conservation?'
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- Samuel T Turvey
- Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London NW1 4RY, UK
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- Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK
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- Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London NW1 4RY, UK.,Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 8PY, UK
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- Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London NW1 4RY, UK
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- School of Sociology and Anthropology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London NW1 4RY, UK.,Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, Les Augrès Manor, Trinity, Jersey JE3 5BP, UK
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