Sacred forest, hunting, and conservation in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
In a number of places, sacred forest sites play an important role in conservation and local livelihoods. This paper examines how Iban hunters and animals alike use sacred forest in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. To determine the relative importance of different sites in hunting, it compares hunting eff...
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Published in | Human ecology : an interdisciplinary journal Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 313 - 338 |
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Main Authors | , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
New York
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
01.06.2004
Springer Nature B.V |
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Online Access | Get full text |
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Summary: | In a number of places, sacred forest sites play an important
role in conservation and local livelihoods. This paper examines how Iban hunters and animals
alike use sacred forest in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. To determine the relative importance
of different sites in hunting, it compares hunting effort, animal species and their numbers
encountered by hunters, and encounters and captures in a variety of forest sites including
sacred groves. The authors relate the results to the role of such sites in the overall Iban
agroforestry system and in the conservation of forest habitat that professional
conservationists deem precious. Such land use practices, while having social and religious
origins, may be important for local economic purposes, but they may also be valuable in
promoting and enhancing the more global goals of biodiversity conservation. |
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Bibliography: | 1521 ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 ObjectType-Article-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 |
ISSN: | 0300-7839 1572-9915 |
DOI: | 10.1023/b:huec.0000028084.30742.d0 |