Local Perceptions of Conservation of Wild Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in the Reserve Naturelle Communautaire de Dindefelo, Southeast Senegal
Arias, Monica (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Pacheco, Liliana (Instituto Jane Goodall España)
Temple, Déborah (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Ciència Animal i dels Aliments)
Lippens, Virginie (Instituto Jane Goodall España)
López Béjar, Manel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Sanitat i d'Anatomia Animals)
Manteca Vilanova, Xavier (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Sanitat i d'Anatomia Animals)

Date:	2018
Description:	2 pàg.
Abstract:	The objective is to study the local perceptions on the conservation of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in the Réserve Naturelle Communautaire de Dindéfélo (RNCD), southeast of Senegal, to design specific actions to improve conservation management. We conducted 338 semi-structured interviews in three main villages of RNCD. Three-fourths of the population were farmers. Of those interviewed, 29% received elementary education. Two of the three villages participated in a project to plant trees as fences. On average, 66% of the respondents were animists. Of the respondents who were afraid to see a chimpanzee, 68% answered because they attack. Seventy-seven percent washed their clothes in the forest river because there was more water than in the village wells. Of the interviewees who threw the old clothes into the forest, 50% did it due to tradition. Ninety-six percent of respondents stated that chimpanzees do not feed from their crops. The main problems of the locals with the Reserve were lack of water and basic resources and not been allow to cut trees in protected areas.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió sotmesa a revisió
Subject:	Local perceptions ; Chimpanzees ; Conservation ; Natural resources ; Human-chimpanzees conflict ; Traditional beliefs
Published in:	Folia Primatologica, Vol. 89 Núm. 3-4 (2018) , p. 172-173, ISSN 1421-9980

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