Conservation of biodiversity in private lands: are Chilean landowners willing to keep threatened species in their lands?

BACKGROUND: The biological conservation in private lands largely depends upon landowners' willingness to keep populations of wild species on them, an issue highlighted by the Convention on Biological Diversity. In this study, we aim (i) to understand small landowners' behavioural intention...

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Autores principales:	Zorondo-Rodríguez,Francisco, Reyes-García,Victoria, Simonetti,Javier A
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Sociedad de Biología de Chile 2014
Materias:	Attitude Central Chile Human-nature relationship Maulino forest Peasant
Acceso en línea:	http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-078X2014000100004
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0716-078X20140001000042015-07-23Conservation of biodiversity in private lands: are Chilean landowners willing to keep threatened species in their lands?Zorondo-Rodríguez,FranciscoReyes-García,VictoriaSimonetti,Javier A Attitude Central Chile Human-nature relationship Maulino forest Peasant BACKGROUND: The biological conservation in private lands largely depends upon landowners' willingness to keep populations of wild species on them, an issue highlighted by the Convention on Biological Diversity. In this study, we aim (i) to understand small landowners' behavioural intentions, or relative intensity to adopt a given behaviour, towards threatened wildlife and (ii) to assess the role of local ecological knowledge, awareness of protected area, and forest ownership on landowners' behavioural intentions towards threatened biodiversity. We interviewed peasants living around Los Queules National Reserve in Central Chile. RESULTS: Interview results showed that behavioural intentions towards threatened species were species-dependant. Results also showed that higher ecological knowledge and awareness of a protected area were associated with positive behavioural intentions towards wildlife. Peasants who owned land with larger forest cover reported positive behavioural intentions towards wildlife more frequently than peasants with less forest cover on their lands, although associations were not consistent across species. CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that (i) opportunities for getting peasants to support species conservation depend on the particular species and vary across peasants and (ii) there is a relevant social heterogeneity among peasants in terms of behavioural intentions towards species. As both factors likely influence conservation outcomes, they should be considered in the design of biodiversity conservation efforts.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad de Biología de ChileRevista chilena de historia natural v.87 20142014-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-078X2014000100004en10.1186/0717-6317-87-4
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spellingShingle	Attitude Central Chile Human-nature relationship Maulino forest Peasant Zorondo-Rodríguez,Francisco Reyes-García,Victoria Simonetti,Javier A Conservation of biodiversity in private lands: are Chilean landowners willing to keep threatened species in their lands?
description	BACKGROUND: The biological conservation in private lands largely depends upon landowners' willingness to keep populations of wild species on them, an issue highlighted by the Convention on Biological Diversity. In this study, we aim (i) to understand small landowners' behavioural intentions, or relative intensity to adopt a given behaviour, towards threatened wildlife and (ii) to assess the role of local ecological knowledge, awareness of protected area, and forest ownership on landowners' behavioural intentions towards threatened biodiversity. We interviewed peasants living around Los Queules National Reserve in Central Chile. RESULTS: Interview results showed that behavioural intentions towards threatened species were species-dependant. Results also showed that higher ecological knowledge and awareness of a protected area were associated with positive behavioural intentions towards wildlife. Peasants who owned land with larger forest cover reported positive behavioural intentions towards wildlife more frequently than peasants with less forest cover on their lands, although associations were not consistent across species. CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that (i) opportunities for getting peasants to support species conservation depend on the particular species and vary across peasants and (ii) there is a relevant social heterogeneity among peasants in terms of behavioural intentions towards species. As both factors likely influence conservation outcomes, they should be considered in the design of biodiversity conservation efforts.
author	Zorondo-Rodríguez,Francisco Reyes-García,Victoria Simonetti,Javier A
author_facet	Zorondo-Rodríguez,Francisco Reyes-García,Victoria Simonetti,Javier A
author_sort	Zorondo-Rodríguez,Francisco
title	Conservation of biodiversity in private lands: are Chilean landowners willing to keep threatened species in their lands?
title_short	Conservation of biodiversity in private lands: are Chilean landowners willing to keep threatened species in their lands?
title_full	Conservation of biodiversity in private lands: are Chilean landowners willing to keep threatened species in their lands?
title_fullStr	Conservation of biodiversity in private lands: are Chilean landowners willing to keep threatened species in their lands?
title_full_unstemmed	Conservation of biodiversity in private lands: are Chilean landowners willing to keep threatened species in their lands?
title_sort	conservation of biodiversity in private lands: are chilean landowners willing to keep threatened species in their lands?
publisher	Sociedad de Biología de Chile
publishDate	2014
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Conservation of biodiversity in private lands: are Chilean landowners willing to keep threatened species in their lands?

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