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Protected areas in tropical Africa: assessing threats and conservation activities

Tranquilli, Sandra ; Abedi-Lartey, Michael ; Abernethy, Katharine ; Amsini, Fidèle ; Asamoah, Augustus ; Balangtaa, Cletus ; Blake, Stephen ; Bouanga, Estelle ; Breuer, Thomas ; Brncic, Terry M ; Campbell, Geneviève ; Chancellor, Rebecca ; Chapman, Colin A ; Davenport, Tim R B ; Dunn, Andrew ; Dupain, Jef ; Ekobo, Atanga ; Eno-Nku, Manasseh ; Etoga, Gilles ; Furuichi, Takeshi ; Gatti, Sylvain ; Ghiurghi, Andrea ; Hashimoto, Chie ; Hart, John A ; Head, Josephine ; Hega, Martin ; Herbinger, Ilka ; Hicks, Thurston C ; Holbech, Lars H ; Huijbregts, Bas ; Kühl, Hjalmar S ; Imong, Inaoyom ; Yeno, Stephane Le-Duc ; Linder, Joshua ; Marshall, Phil ; Lero, Peter Minasoma ; Morgan, David ; Mubalama, Leonard ; N'Goran, Paul K ; Nicholas, Aaron ; Nixon, Stuart ; Normand, Emmanuelle ; Nziguyimpa, Leonidas ; Nzooh-Dongmo, Zacharie ; Ofori-Amanfo, Richard ; Ogunjemite, Babafemi G ; Petre, Charles-Albert ; Rainey, Hugo J ; Regnaut, Sebastien ; Robinson, Orume ; Rundus, Aaron ; Sanz, Crickette M ; Okon, David Tiku ; Todd, Angelique ; Warren, Ymke ; Sommer, Volker Moreira, Francisco

PloS one, 2014-12, Vol.9 (12), p.e114154-e114154 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Protected areas in tropical Africa: assessing threats and conservation activities
Autor: Tranquilli, Sandra ; Abedi-Lartey, Michael ; Abernethy, Katharine ; Amsini, Fidèle ; Asamoah, Augustus ; Balangtaa, Cletus ; Blake, Stephen ; Bouanga, Estelle ; Breuer, Thomas ; Brncic, Terry M ; Campbell, Geneviève ; Chancellor, Rebecca ; Chapman, Colin A ; Davenport, Tim R B ; Dunn, Andrew ; Dupain, Jef ; Ekobo, Atanga ; Eno-Nku, Manasseh ; Etoga, Gilles ; Furuichi, Takeshi ; Gatti, Sylvain ; Ghiurghi, Andrea ; Hashimoto, Chie ; Hart, John A ; Head, Josephine ; Hega, Martin ; Herbinger, Ilka ; Hicks, Thurston C ; Holbech, Lars H ; Huijbregts, Bas ; Kühl, Hjalmar S ; Imong, Inaoyom ; Yeno, Stephane Le-Duc ; Linder, Joshua ; Marshall, Phil ; Lero, Peter Minasoma ; Morgan, David ; Mubalama, Leonard ; N'Goran, Paul K ; Nicholas, Aaron ; Nixon, Stuart ; Normand, Emmanuelle ; Nziguyimpa, Leonidas ; Nzooh-Dongmo, Zacharie ; Ofori-Amanfo, Richard ; Ogunjemite, Babafemi G ; Petre, Charles-Albert ; Rainey, Hugo J ; Regnaut, Sebastien ; Robinson, Orume ; Rundus, Aaron ; Sanz, Crickette M ; Okon, David Tiku ; Todd, Angelique ; Warren, Ymke ; Sommer, Volker
Moreira, Francisco
Assuntos: Africa ; Agricultural management ; Agriculture ; Animals ; Animals, Wild ; Anthropogenic factors ; Biology and Life Sciences ; Conservation ; Conservation of Natural Resources ; Ecology and Environmental Sciences ; Ecosystem ; Endangered Species ; Fires ; Human influences ; Hunting ; Life sciences ; Logging ; Natural resources ; Protected areas ; Research and Analysis Methods ; Sciences du vivant ; Threat evaluation ; Tourism ; Tropical Climate ; Tropical forests ; Wildlife ; Wildlife conservation ; Wildlife management ; Workers ; Zoologie ; Zoology
É parte de: PloS one, 2014-12, Vol.9 (12), p.e114154-e114154
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Conceived and designed the experiments: ST. Performed the experiments: ST. Analyzed the data: ST. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ST MA-L KA FA AA CB SB EB TB TMB GC RC CAC TRBD AD JD AE MEN GE TF SG AG CH JAH JH MH IH TCH LHH BH HSK II SL-DY JL PM PML DM LM PKN AN SN EN LN ZN-D RO-A BGO C-AP HJR SR OR AR CMS DTO AT YW VS. Wrote the paper: ST MA-L KA FA AA CB SB EB TB TMB GC RC CAC TRBD AD JD AE MEN GE TF SG AG CH JAH JH MH IH TCH LHH BH HSK II SL-DY JL PM PML DM LM PKN AN SN EN LN ZN-D RO-A BGO C-AP HJR SR OR AR CMS DTO AT YW VS.
Competing Interests: The authors modified the affiliation of the two co-authors that are currently employed by commercial companies “SG Sustainable Oils Cameroon” and “AGRECO”. At the time of data collection, one of them was employed at the WWF and the other one was an independent researcher. Therefore, the authors changed their affiliation according to with whom they were affiliated at the time of the data collection. The authors confirm that this does not alter their adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Descrição: Numerous protected areas (PAs) have been created in Africa to safeguard wildlife and other natural resources. However, significant threats from anthropogenic activities and decline of wildlife populations persist, while conservation efforts in most PAs are still minimal. We assessed the impact level of the most common threats to wildlife within PAs in tropical Africa and the relationship of conservation activities with threat impact level. We collated data on 98 PAs with tropical forest cover from 15 countries across West, Central and East Africa. For this, we assembled information about local threats as well as conservation activities from published and unpublished literature, and questionnaires sent to long-term field workers. We constructed general linear models to test the significance of specific conservation activities in relation to the threat impact level. Subsistence and commercial hunting were identified as the most common direct threats to wildlife and found to be most prevalent in West and Central Africa. Agriculture and logging represented the most common indirect threats, and were most prevalent in West Africa. We found that the long-term presence of conservation activities (such as law enforcement, research and tourism) was associated with lower threat impact levels. Our results highlight deficiencies in the management effectiveness of several PAs across tropical Africa, and conclude that PA management should invest more into conservation activities with long-term duration.
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