Understanding complex drivers of wildlife crime to design effective conservation interventions
In conservation understanding the drivers of behavior and developing robust interventions to promote behavioral change is challenging and requires a multifaceted approach. This is particularly true for efforts to address illegal wildlife use, where pervasive—and sometimes simplistic—narratives often...
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| author | Travers, H Archer, L Mwedde, G Roe, D Baker, J Plumptre, A Rwetsiba, A Milner-Gulland, E |
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| description | In conservation understanding the drivers of behavior and developing robust interventions to promote behavioral change is challenging and requires a multifaceted approach. This is particularly true for efforts to address illegal wildlife use, where pervasive—and sometimes simplistic—narratives often obscure complex realities. We used an indirect questioning approach, the unmatched count technique, to investigate the drivers and prevalence of wildlife crime in communities surrounding 2 national parks in Uganda and combined scenario interviews and a choice experiment to predict the performance of potential interventions designed to tackle these crimes. Although poverty is often assumed to be a key driver of wildlife crime, we found that better‐off households and those subject to human–wildlife conflict and those that do not receive any benefits from the parks’ tourism revenue sharing were more likely to be involved in certain types of wildlife crime, especially illegal hunting. The interventions predicted to have the greatest impact on reducing local participation in wildlife crime were those that directly addressed the drivers including, mitigating damage caused by wildlife and generating financial benefits for park‐adjacent households. Our triangulated approach provided insights into complex and hard‐to‐access behaviors and highlighted the importance of going beyond single‐driver narratives. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:a6525c5a-4c19-4e57-82d4-ddd8b7562db42022-03-27T02:46:31ZUnderstanding complex drivers of wildlife crime to design effective conservation interventionsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:a6525c5a-4c19-4e57-82d4-ddd8b7562db4EnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordWiley2019Travers, HArcher, LMwedde, GRoe, DBaker, JPlumptre, ARwetsiba, AMilner-Gulland, EIn conservation understanding the drivers of behavior and developing robust interventions to promote behavioral change is challenging and requires a multifaceted approach. This is particularly true for efforts to address illegal wildlife use, where pervasive—and sometimes simplistic—narratives often obscure complex realities. We used an indirect questioning approach, the unmatched count technique, to investigate the drivers and prevalence of wildlife crime in communities surrounding 2 national parks in Uganda and combined scenario interviews and a choice experiment to predict the performance of potential interventions designed to tackle these crimes. Although poverty is often assumed to be a key driver of wildlife crime, we found that better‐off households and those subject to human–wildlife conflict and those that do not receive any benefits from the parks’ tourism revenue sharing were more likely to be involved in certain types of wildlife crime, especially illegal hunting. The interventions predicted to have the greatest impact on reducing local participation in wildlife crime were those that directly addressed the drivers including, mitigating damage caused by wildlife and generating financial benefits for park‐adjacent households. Our triangulated approach provided insights into complex and hard‐to‐access behaviors and highlighted the importance of going beyond single‐driver narratives. |
| spellingShingle | Travers, H Archer, L Mwedde, G Roe, D Baker, J Plumptre, A Rwetsiba, A Milner-Gulland, E Understanding complex drivers of wildlife crime to design effective conservation interventions |
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