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The socio-cultural benefits and costs of the traditional hunting of dugongs Dugong dugon and green turtles Chelonia mydas in Torres Strait, Australia
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Delisle, A and Kiatkoski Kim, M and Stoeckl, N and Watkin Lui, F and Marsh, H, The socio-cultural benefits and costs of the traditional hunting of dugongs Dugong dugon and green turtles Chelonia mydas in Torres Strait, Australia, Oryx, 52, (2) pp. 250-261. ISSN 0030-6053 (2018) [Refereed Article]
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© 2017 Fauna & Flora International
DOI: doi:10.1017/S0030605317001466
Abstract
Signatory states of the Convention on Biological
Diversity must ‘protect and encourage the customary use
of biological resources in accordance with traditional
cultural practices that are compatible with conservation or
sustainable use requirements’. Thus the management of
traditional hunting of wildlife must balance the sustainability of target species with the benefits of hunting to traditional
communities. Conservation policies usually define the values
associated with wild meats in terms of income and nutrition,
neglecting a wide range of social and cultural values that are
important to traditional hunting communities. We elicited
the community-defined benefits and costs associated with
the traditional hunting of dugongs Dugong dugon and
green turtles Chelonia mydas from communities on two islands in Torres Strait, Australia. We then used cognitive
mapping and multidimensional scaling to identify separable
groups of benefits (cultural services, provisioning services,
and individual benefits) and demonstrate that traditional
owners consider the cultural services associated with traditional hunting to be significantly more important than the
provisioning services. Understanding these cultural values
can inform management actions in accordance with the
Convention on Biological Diversity. If communities are unable to hunt, important cultural benefits are foregone. Based
on our results, we question the appropriateness of conservation actions focused on prohibiting hunting and providing
monetary compensation for the loss of provisioning services
only.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | <i>Chelonia mydas</i>, cognitive mapping, cultural values, dugong, <i>Dugong dugon</i>, green turtle, Torres Strait, traditional hunting |
Research Division: | Environmental Sciences |
Research Group: | Environmental management |
Research Field: | Conservation and biodiversity |
Objective Division: | Animal Production and Animal Primary Products |
Objective Group: | Fisheries - wild caught |
Objective Field: | Fisheries - wild caught not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Stoeckl, N (Professor Natalie Stoeckl) |
ID Code: | 136218 |
Year Published: | 2018 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 6 |
Deposited By: | College Office - CoBE |
Deposited On: | 2019-12-06 |
Last Modified: | 2020-05-05 |
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