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Sustainability issues of commercial non-timber forest product extraction in West Suriname

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, June 2018
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Title
Sustainability issues of commercial non-timber forest product extraction in West Suriname
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Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, June 2018
DOI 10.1186/s13002-018-0244-5
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Tim van den Boog, Janette Bulkan, James Tansey, Tinde R. van Andel

Abstract

Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) have been traded for millennia by indigenous communities. Current increased demands driven by globalisation, however, put more pressure on local harvesters and their surrounding ecosystems. The safeguarding of indigenous access rights to harvesting grounds is needed, either through communal land titles or collaborative management agreements, both to secure prior indigenous rights and to minimise further negative ecological impacts. This study was carried out in two indigenous communities in West Suriname located along the Corentyne River. We assessed the three economically most important NTFPs for each community. We determined the land tenure status of harvesting grounds and negative impacts on target species and/or ecosystem. Ethnobotanical data were collected (n = 53), and semi-structured interviews were held with hunters and gatherers (n = 13). Local and national maps were acquired, and their data merged. Results showed that the communities have no tenure security over their most important harvesting sites. These collection sites are State owned and some under (active) logging concession. All of the traded wild animal populations had decreased because of increased local and non-local commercial interest, especially the stingray Potamotrygon boesemani (first described in 2008), which was traded for US$250 per live specimen. The stingray population had become imperilled within months as local and (inter-) national regulations for this species are non-existent. We stress the urgent need for collaborative management agreements over the harvesting sites between the government of Suriname and the indigenous communities to prevent further non-local developments and harvesting to disturb the local economy. An immediate moratorium on the export of P. boesemani is necessary to prevent the extinction of this endemic stingray.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 84 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 16 19%
Student > Bachelor 10 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 11%
Researcher 5 6%
Lecturer 5 6%
Other 17 20%
Unknown 22 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 17 20%
Environmental Science 13 15%
Social Sciences 7 8%
Unspecified 4 5%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 4 5%
Other 15 18%
Unknown 24 29%
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Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 July 2018.
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#6,509,782
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Outputs from Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
#223
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Outputs of similar age
#106,596
of 333,445 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
#3
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