Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword by Daniel H. Janzen
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Baram River, Sarawak
- 3 Cross River, Nigeria
- 4 Siberut and Flores Islands, Indonesia
- 5 Forest fragments in China and the Philippines
- 6 Costa Rican linkage projects
- 7 Irian Jaya, Indonesian New Guinea
- 8 Project themes and practicalities
- 9 Options for conservation
- 10 Options for development
- 11 Options for changing people's minds
- 12 Summary and conclusions
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
8 - Project themes and practicalities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword by Daniel H. Janzen
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Baram River, Sarawak
- 3 Cross River, Nigeria
- 4 Siberut and Flores Islands, Indonesia
- 5 Forest fragments in China and the Philippines
- 6 Costa Rican linkage projects
- 7 Irian Jaya, Indonesian New Guinea
- 8 Project themes and practicalities
- 9 Options for conservation
- 10 Options for development
- 11 Options for changing people's minds
- 12 Summary and conclusions
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Introduction
Chapters 2–7 summarized field experience in designing conservation projects in Sarawak (Malaysian Borneo), Cross River (Nigeria), Siberut and Flores (western and central Indonesia), Hainan (China), Luzon (the Philippines), Costa Rica (Central America), and Irian Jaya (Indonesian New Guinea). These are described in more or less the same order in which the projects occurred in 1984–94. This chapter aims to review the underlying conservation problems in each place, and the nature of the solutions attempted there. It then draws on practical lessons learned in designing the various projects, in order to frame some general guidelines which may be useful to other conservationists faced with similar sets of problems.
Threats to biodiversity can often be traced back to one or more underlying problems. These may be linked to the failure of planning, markets, policies, or institutions, to distorted distributions of wealth and power or poverty and weakness, to excessive numbers of people, or to open-access exploitation of renewable resources. These conclusions were reached partly as a result of the work described in Chapters 2–7, and examples include:
planning failure in Siberut and Biak, where forests had been allocated to logging despite the steepness of the terrain, wet climate and/or extremely fragile soils;
policy failure in Makiling Forest Reserve, where confused management aims had encouraged colonization and forest clearance;
market failure in Sarawak and Siberut, where the external costs of logging had been borne not by logging companies but by forest-dependent people;
institutional failure in Yapen, Irian Jaya, where roads were being built through a Strict Nature Reserve without compliance with EIA procedures; and
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- Designing Conservation Projects , pp. 158 - 180Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996