Are sacred caves still safe havens for the endemic bats of Madagascar?
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Resumo: | Despite conservation discourses in Madagascar increasingly emphasizing the role of customary institutions for wildlife management, we know relatively little about their effectiveness. Here, we used semi-structured interviews with 54 adults in eight villages to investigate whether sacred caves and taboos offer conservation benefits for cave-dwelling bats in and around Tsimanampetsotsa National Park, south-west Madagascar. Although some caves were described as sites of spiritual significance for the local communities, most interviewees (c. 76%) did not recognize their present-day sacred status. Similarly, only 22% of the interviewees recognized taboos inhibiting bat hunting and consumption. Legal protection of bats and caves through protected areas was often more widely acknowledged than customary regulations, although up to 30% of the interviewees reported consumption of bats within their communities. Guano extraction was often tolerated in sacred caves in exchange for economic compensation. This may benefit bat conservation by creating incentives for bat protection, although extraction is often performed through destructive and exploitative practices with little benefit for local communities. In view of these results our study questions the extent to which sacred sites, taboos and protected areas offer protection for bats in Madagascar. These results support previous studies documenting the erosion of customary institutions in Madagascar, including the loss of the spiritual values underpinning sacred sites. Given that many Malagasy bats are cave-dwelling species and that most depend on the customary protection of these sites, it is important to obtain a better understanding of the complex interactions between spiritual practices, taboos and protected areas in sustaining bat diversity. |
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Are sacred caves still safe havens for the endemic bats of Madagascar?Despite conservation discourses in Madagascar increasingly emphasizing the role of customary institutions for wildlife management, we know relatively little about their effectiveness. Here, we used semi-structured interviews with 54 adults in eight villages to investigate whether sacred caves and taboos offer conservation benefits for cave-dwelling bats in and around Tsimanampetsotsa National Park, south-west Madagascar. Although some caves were described as sites of spiritual significance for the local communities, most interviewees (c. 76%) did not recognize their present-day sacred status. Similarly, only 22% of the interviewees recognized taboos inhibiting bat hunting and consumption. Legal protection of bats and caves through protected areas was often more widely acknowledged than customary regulations, although up to 30% of the interviewees reported consumption of bats within their communities. Guano extraction was often tolerated in sacred caves in exchange for economic compensation. This may benefit bat conservation by creating incentives for bat protection, although extraction is often performed through destructive and exploitative practices with little benefit for local communities. In view of these results our study questions the extent to which sacred sites, taboos and protected areas offer protection for bats in Madagascar. These results support previous studies documenting the erosion of customary institutions in Madagascar, including the loss of the spiritual values underpinning sacred sites. Given that many Malagasy bats are cave-dwelling species and that most depend on the customary protection of these sites, it is important to obtain a better understanding of the complex interactions between spiritual practices, taboos and protected areas in sustaining bat diversity.Cambrigde University PressRepositório da Universidade de LisboaFernández-Llamazares, ÁlvaroLópez-Baucells, AdriàRocha, RicardoAndriamitandrina, Santatra F. M.Andriatafika, Zo EmmanuelBurgas, DanielTemba, Eric MarcelTorrent, LauraCabeza, Mar2023-10-13T10:47:16Z2018-042018-04-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/59735engFernández-Llamazares, Á, López-Baucells, A., Rocha, R., Andriamitandrina, S., Andriatafika, Z., Burgas, D., . . . Cabeza, M. (2018). Are sacred caves still safe havens for the endemic bats of Madagascar? Oryx, 52(2), 271-275. doi:10.1017/S003060531700164810.1017/S0030605317001648info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-08T17:09:06Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/59735Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T22:09:38.888725Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Are sacred caves still safe havens for the endemic bats of Madagascar? |
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Are sacred caves still safe havens for the endemic bats of Madagascar? |
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Are sacred caves still safe havens for the endemic bats of Madagascar? Fernández-Llamazares, Álvaro |
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Are sacred caves still safe havens for the endemic bats of Madagascar? |
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Are sacred caves still safe havens for the endemic bats of Madagascar? |
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Are sacred caves still safe havens for the endemic bats of Madagascar? |
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Are sacred caves still safe havens for the endemic bats of Madagascar? |
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Are sacred caves still safe havens for the endemic bats of Madagascar? |
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Fernández-Llamazares, Álvaro |
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Fernández-Llamazares, Álvaro López-Baucells, Adrià Rocha, Ricardo Andriamitandrina, Santatra F. M. Andriatafika, Zo Emmanuel Burgas, Daniel Temba, Eric Marcel Torrent, Laura Cabeza, Mar |
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López-Baucells, Adrià Rocha, Ricardo Andriamitandrina, Santatra F. M. Andriatafika, Zo Emmanuel Burgas, Daniel Temba, Eric Marcel Torrent, Laura Cabeza, Mar |
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Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
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Fernández-Llamazares, Álvaro López-Baucells, Adrià Rocha, Ricardo Andriamitandrina, Santatra F. M. Andriatafika, Zo Emmanuel Burgas, Daniel Temba, Eric Marcel Torrent, Laura Cabeza, Mar |
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Despite conservation discourses in Madagascar increasingly emphasizing the role of customary institutions for wildlife management, we know relatively little about their effectiveness. Here, we used semi-structured interviews with 54 adults in eight villages to investigate whether sacred caves and taboos offer conservation benefits for cave-dwelling bats in and around Tsimanampetsotsa National Park, south-west Madagascar. Although some caves were described as sites of spiritual significance for the local communities, most interviewees (c. 76%) did not recognize their present-day sacred status. Similarly, only 22% of the interviewees recognized taboos inhibiting bat hunting and consumption. Legal protection of bats and caves through protected areas was often more widely acknowledged than customary regulations, although up to 30% of the interviewees reported consumption of bats within their communities. Guano extraction was often tolerated in sacred caves in exchange for economic compensation. This may benefit bat conservation by creating incentives for bat protection, although extraction is often performed through destructive and exploitative practices with little benefit for local communities. In view of these results our study questions the extent to which sacred sites, taboos and protected areas offer protection for bats in Madagascar. These results support previous studies documenting the erosion of customary institutions in Madagascar, including the loss of the spiritual values underpinning sacred sites. Given that many Malagasy bats are cave-dwelling species and that most depend on the customary protection of these sites, it is important to obtain a better understanding of the complex interactions between spiritual practices, taboos and protected areas in sustaining bat diversity. |
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Fernández-Llamazares, Á, López-Baucells, A., Rocha, R., Andriamitandrina, S., Andriatafika, Z., Burgas, D., . . . Cabeza, M. (2018). Are sacred caves still safe havens for the endemic bats of Madagascar? Oryx, 52(2), 271-275. doi:10.1017/S0030605317001648 10.1017/S0030605317001648 |
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