Rodrigues, Ana Carla and Costa, Hugo C. M. and Peres, Carlos A. and Brondizio, Eduardo Sonnewend and Dias, Adevaldo and Moraes, Jose Alves de and Constantino, Pedro de Araujo Lima and Ladle, Richard James and Malhado, Ana Claudia Mendes and Silva, Joao Vitor Campos (2025) Community-based management expands ecosystem protection footprint in Amazonian forests. Nature Sustainability. p. 13.
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Community-based conservation has gained traction in the Brazilian Amazon because of its potential in combining territorial protection, local well-being and biodiversity conservation. We assessed the footprint of effective protection, areas actively monitored and defended through community-led surveillance, where illegal activities such as poaching, fishing and logging are successfully prevented, within the largest community-based fisheries conservation arrangement in the Amazon. While the arrangement focused specifically on 13 lakes which were on average 47 ha in size, the effectively protected floodplain area was approximately eightfold larger than the extent of direct protection, defined as the immediate focal area sustaining financial returns through co-management. The additional protection of this ‘functional area’ was on average 11,188 ha, or 36-fold larger than the directly protected area. Although the average cost of effective protection was low (US$0.95 ha−1 yr−1), this was entirely incurred by low-income local communities. Our study underscores the remarkable effort leveraged by Amazonian rural communities in protecting natural ecosystems and the imperative need to develop compensation mechanisms to financially reward them, which are currently lacking.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | Community Based Conservation (CBC), Local Communities, Community-based Fisheries, Amazon, Conservation, Biodiversity, Co-management |
| Subjects: | Biodiversity |
| Depositing User: | Kokila ICSF Krish |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Feb 2026 06:41 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Feb 2026 06:41 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/22551 |
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