Experiences from harvest-driven conservation: Management of Amazonian river turtles as a common-pool resource.

ABSTRACT: 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 factor

SUBMITTER: Harju E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5857259 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature