Nicola Abram
I am an interdisciplinary researcher and conservationist who specialises in land-use planning to promote biodiversity conservation and sustainable development agendas, along with the maintenance of ecosystem services in dynamic, multi-use landscapes. I strongly believe in applied research and orientate my work to solving ‘real-life’ problems, as well as working at the research-policy interface.
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To examine resource use (including illegal extraction) in a sample of 15 villages, structured questionnaires were applied to 290 households. Through socio-economic questions it was found that farming was the dominant livelihood with others being fishing, weaving and trading. Education and income were low with income decreasing with distance from road. Number of meals per day varied throughout the year and livestock such as chicken, duck, pig and zebu were often owned. Resource consumption results revealed firewood and timber were illegally taken from all units in Manombo Forest. Extraction points within the forest differed according to village influence area. Villagers selected a sub-set of species for use primarily driven by preference but other factors, such as species availability, may have affected species use. The study also found evidence that wood extraction may have resulted in the forest structure observed, where larger trees were largely absent. Typically households which were furthest from forest officials, close to forest, were recorded as having fewer alternative resources of wood, and lower income and education levels, exhibited greater levels of dependency on protected area resources.
This study provides baseline data that will help facilitate management plans at a local level and will further assist national and international conservation efforts.
To examine resource use (including illegal extraction) in a sample of 15 villages, structured questionnaires were applied to 290 households. Through socio-economic questions it was found that farming was the dominant livelihood with others being fishing, weaving and trading. Education and income were low with income decreasing with distance from road. Number of meals per day varied throughout the year and livestock such as chicken, duck, pig and zebu were often owned. Resource consumption results revealed firewood and timber were illegally taken from all units in Manombo Forest. Extraction points within the forest differed according to village influence area. Villagers selected a sub-set of species for use primarily driven by preference but other factors, such as species availability, may have affected species use. The study also found evidence that wood extraction may have resulted in the forest structure observed, where larger trees were largely absent. Typically households which were furthest from forest officials, close to forest, were recorded as having fewer alternative resources of wood, and lower income and education levels, exhibited greater levels of dependency on protected area resources.
This study provides baseline data that will help facilitate management plans at a local level and will further assist national and international conservation efforts.