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Farmers’ perception of the ecosystem services provided by diurnal raptors in arid Rajasthan
Farmers are the most important stakeholders in wildlife conservation in the agricultural landscape. Understanding the farmer’s perceptions, attitude, behaviour, and knowledge toward conservation is critical in developing an effective conservation programme in human-dominated landscapes. We conducted...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10460152/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37637155 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15996 |
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author | Tiwari, Govind Pandey, Puneet Kaul, Rahul Singh, Randeep |
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description | Farmers are the most important stakeholders in wildlife conservation in the agricultural landscape. Understanding the farmer’s perceptions, attitude, behaviour, and knowledge toward conservation is critical in developing an effective conservation programme in human-dominated landscapes. We conducted semi-structured face-to-face interviews with 373 farmers to understand the farmer’s perception of ecosystem services provided by diurnal raptors in the arid region of Rajasthan from July 2020 to February 2021 and from August 2021 to January 2022. We grouped ecosystem services and disservices into larger categories and estimated the correlation between them, finding that disservices are negatively correlated with benefits. Raptors were perceived as beneficial for their role in controlling rodents and pests, but negatively for poultry predation. In addition, we built a binomial generalised linear model with a logit function to better understand the factors that influence farmers’ perceptions of raptors (positive or negative). We observed that males and females have different attitudes toward the ecosystem services provided by raptors. It is critical to understand social perceptions in order to conserve species that are rare on a global scale but may face negative perceptions on a local scale. Our study connects ecological information with socio-demographic factors, which can be useful in developing policy measures for raptor conservation. |
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spelling | pubmed-104601522023-08-27 Farmers’ perception of the ecosystem services provided by diurnal raptors in arid Rajasthan Tiwari, Govind Pandey, Puneet Kaul, Rahul Singh, Randeep PeerJ Conservation Biology Farmers are the most important stakeholders in wildlife conservation in the agricultural landscape. Understanding the farmer’s perceptions, attitude, behaviour, and knowledge toward conservation is critical in developing an effective conservation programme in human-dominated landscapes. We conducted semi-structured face-to-face interviews with 373 farmers to understand the farmer’s perception of ecosystem services provided by diurnal raptors in the arid region of Rajasthan from July 2020 to February 2021 and from August 2021 to January 2022. We grouped ecosystem services and disservices into larger categories and estimated the correlation between them, finding that disservices are negatively correlated with benefits. Raptors were perceived as beneficial for their role in controlling rodents and pests, but negatively for poultry predation. In addition, we built a binomial generalised linear model with a logit function to better understand the factors that influence farmers’ perceptions of raptors (positive or negative). We observed that males and females have different attitudes toward the ecosystem services provided by raptors. It is critical to understand social perceptions in order to conserve species that are rare on a global scale but may face negative perceptions on a local scale. Our study connects ecological information with socio-demographic factors, which can be useful in developing policy measures for raptor conservation. PeerJ Inc. 2023-08-23 /pmc/articles/PMC10460152/ /pubmed/37637155 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15996 Text en © 2023 Tiwari et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. |
spellingShingle | Conservation Biology Tiwari, Govind Pandey, Puneet Kaul, Rahul Singh, Randeep Farmers’ perception of the ecosystem services provided by diurnal raptors in arid Rajasthan |
title | Farmers’ perception of the ecosystem services provided by diurnal raptors in arid Rajasthan |
title_full | Farmers’ perception of the ecosystem services provided by diurnal raptors in arid Rajasthan |
title_fullStr | Farmers’ perception of the ecosystem services provided by diurnal raptors in arid Rajasthan |
title_full_unstemmed | Farmers’ perception of the ecosystem services provided by diurnal raptors in arid Rajasthan |
title_short | Farmers’ perception of the ecosystem services provided by diurnal raptors in arid Rajasthan |
title_sort | farmers’ perception of the ecosystem services provided by diurnal raptors in arid rajasthan |
topic | Conservation Biology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10460152/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37637155 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15996 |
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