CRIA

LEKWILD - Outside Conservation: exploring the role of local ecological knowledge in the long-term persistence of western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) outside protected areas in Guinea-

public.project.responsible_investigator_cria: Tânia Minhós

public.project.research_group: Environment, Sustainability and Ethnography

public.project.keyword

Biodiversity Conservation | Environmental Anthropology | Human-Wildlife Interactions | Local Ecological Knowledge | Western Chimpanzees

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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

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Centre of Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter (UK); IBAP - Instituto da Biodiversidade e das Áreas Protegidas (Guiné-Bissau)

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public.project.start_date

01-11-2022

public.project.end_date

30-04-2023

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EXPLO/2022/02

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The majority of western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) live outside protected areas suggesting informal protections are playing a continued role in their persistence. This project seeks to identify this local ecological knowledge and to reflect on its potential incorporation in formal conservation strategies. Only with a full understanding and inclusion of local perspectives and practice will ‘biodiversity conservation’ truly succeed at benefitting people and wildlife.

LEKWILD - Outside Conservation: exploring the role of local ecological knowledge in the long-term persistence of western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) outside protected areas in Guinea-

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Full members

Amélia Frazão Moreira

PhD students

Chloe Chesney

PhD students

Fátima Santos

Kimberley Hockings (Exeter University)

Full members

Maria Cardeira da Silva

Sara Marunur Faria Fernandes Quadé (IBAP)