Journal
AMBIO
Volume 47, Issue 3, Pages 327-339Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-017-0943-5
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Co-governance; Co-management; Egg relocation; Pacaya Samiria; Peru; Podocnemis unifilis
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- Kone Foundation
- Finnish Cultural Foundation
- North-South-South North-South-South Higher Education Institution Network Programme of the Centre for International Mobility (CIMO)
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Understanding what causes variability in the outcomes of common-pool resources management and governance has important policy implications for biodiversity conservation, in particular for the conservation of wild plants and animals subject to harvest. We report an exploratory study focusing on Amazonian river turtles as a common-pool resource under harvest-driven conservation and management efforts in Peru. Based on document analysis, literature review and a series of interviews, we describe the management program as a social process and identify the most important governance and management outcomes achieved (increased turtle abundance and benefits for harvesters, harvester formalization), factors hindering and facilitating the program implementation (four natural and three societal factors), and key governance actions behind the program outcomes (awareness and capacity building, crafting and enforcing rules). We then highlight the existing knowledge gaps and the needs and possible means to address particular risks related to turtle management on a harvest-driven setting.
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