Hunting skills and ethnobiological knowledge among the young, educated Papua New Guineans: Implications for conservation

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<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F23%3A00574858" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/23:00574858 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/60076658:12310/23:43906444

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989423000707/pdfft?md5=17b84f4f9a0325e5f689e86699caf2a6&pid=1-s2.0-S2351989423000707-main.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989423000707/pdfft?md5=17b84f4f9a0325e5f689e86699caf2a6&pid=1-s2.0-S2351989423000707-main.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2023.e02435" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.gecco.2023.e02435</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Hunting skills and ethnobiological knowledge among the young, educated Papua New Guineans: Implications for conservation

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Hunting, as a component of traditional indigenous livelihoods, can play either positive or negative role in biodiversity conservation by maintaining traditional lifestyles that are conducive to conservation or by endangering vulnerable hunted species. Quantitative data on changes in hunting skills in indigenous communities driven by education, employment, and other lifestyle changes are lacking. Here we assess hunting skills of young people in Papua New Guinea (PNG). We use a sample of 7818 secondary school students, representing 15% of the most educated individuals in their age cohort. Students self-assessed their hunting skills as none (34% of respondents), poor (46%), and good (20%). Male students reported significantly higher hunting skills than female students. Hunting skills were positively correlated with knowledge of local bird species and with other traditional skills (growing food, using medicinal plants, building houses). They were negatively correlated with math and English skills, as well as with the transportation accessibility of the village/town where the students grew up. Students who grow up in town reported significantly lower hunting skills than those who grew up in village. These results show that students' hunting skills are already low, and the trends in their socio-cultural drivers predict a further decline in the future. The increasing disconnection from the natural environment and the declining attractiveness of hunting as prestigious activity for the young and educated people are part of a broader trend of loss of ethnobiological knowledge in PNG's indigenous communities. While it may reduce hunting pressure on some endangered species, it may also remove traditional incentives for conservation in rainforest-dwelling communities.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Hunting skills and ethnobiological knowledge among the young, educated Papua New Guineans: Implications for conservation

Popis výsledku anglicky

Hunting, as a component of traditional indigenous livelihoods, can play either positive or negative role in biodiversity conservation by maintaining traditional lifestyles that are conducive to conservation or by endangering vulnerable hunted species. Quantitative data on changes in hunting skills in indigenous communities driven by education, employment, and other lifestyle changes are lacking. Here we assess hunting skills of young people in Papua New Guinea (PNG). We use a sample of 7818 secondary school students, representing 15% of the most educated individuals in their age cohort. Students self-assessed their hunting skills as none (34% of respondents), poor (46%), and good (20%). Male students reported significantly higher hunting skills than female students. Hunting skills were positively correlated with knowledge of local bird species and with other traditional skills (growing food, using medicinal plants, building houses). They were negatively correlated with math and English skills, as well as with the transportation accessibility of the village/town where the students grew up. Students who grow up in town reported significantly lower hunting skills than those who grew up in village. These results show that students' hunting skills are already low, and the trends in their socio-cultural drivers predict a further decline in the future. The increasing disconnection from the natural environment and the declining attractiveness of hunting as prestigious activity for the young and educated people are part of a broader trend of loss of ethnobiological knowledge in PNG's indigenous communities. While it may reduce hunting pressure on some endangered species, it may also remove traditional incentives for conservation in rainforest-dwelling communities.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10619 - Biodiversity conservation

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA18-23889S" target="_blank" >GA18-23889S: Ekologické a geografické determinanty diverzifikace současného lidstva: fylogenetický přístup v globálním a lokálním měřítku</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Global Ecology and Conservation

ISSN

2351-9894

e-ISSN

2351-9894

Svazek periodika

43

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

JUN 01

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

8

Strana od-do

e02435

Kód UT WoS článku

001043120500001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85150255050