Community Forestry as Perceived by Local People Around Cross River National Park, Nigeria

Sammanfattning

The prior identification of local people's preferences for conservation-development projects will help gear nature-conservation strategies toward the needs of different groups of local people. This will help policy-makers in designing a more acceptable and effective conservation strategy. This article reports a study of local perceptions of a community forestry project that aims to help improve the design as well as local acceptance of the project. The data originated from personal interviews conducted in communities around Okwangwo Division of the Cross River National Park in southeast Nigeria and were analysed using ordered logit and binary logit models. The results showed that >50% of the respondents were satisfied with the community forestry project. The respondents' perceptions were mainly influenced by education, age, gender, and willingness to contribute money to tourism as well as the contributions of cocoa, banana, and afang (Gnetum africanum) to the respondents' income. The results from this study have important implications for nature conservation in Nigeria and potentially other conservation contexts across the developing world.

Nyckelord

Community forestry; Local perceptions; Nature conservation; Nigeria; Ordered logit model; Ratings

Publicerad i

Environmental Management
2012, volym: 49, nummer: 1, sidor: 207-218
Utgivare: SPRINGER

SLU författare

• Ezebilo, Eugene Ejike

  • Institutionen för sydsvensk skogsvetenskap, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

Globala målen (SDG)

SDG5 Jämställdhet

UKÄ forskningsämne

Skogsvetenskap
Miljö- och naturvårdsvetenskap
Samhällsvetenskap

Publikationens identifierare

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-011-9765-6

Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/58828