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Sacred forest, hunting, and conservation in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

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Title Sacred forest, hunting, and conservation in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
 
Creator Wadley, R.L.
Colfer, C.J.P.
 
Subject nature conservation
agroforestry
hunting
traditional society
reserved forests
biodiversity
anthropology
 
Description In a number of places, sacred forest sites play an important role in conservation and local livelihoods. This paper examines how Iban hunters and animals alike use sacred forest in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. To determine the relative importance of different sites in hunting, it compares hunting effort, animal species and their numbers encountered by hunters, and encounters and captures in a variety of forest sites including sacred groves. The authors relate the results to the role of such sites in the overall Iban agroforestry system and in the conservation of forest habitat that professional conservationists deem precious. Such land use practices, while having social and religious origins, may be important for local economic purposes, but they may also be valuable in promoting and enhancing the more global goals of biodiversity conservation.
 
Date 2004
2012-06-04T09:08:59Z
2012-06-04T09:08:59Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Wadley, R.L., Colfer, C.J.P. 2004. Sacred forest, hunting, and conservation in West Kalimantan, Indonesia . Human Ecology 32 (3) :313-338. ISSN: 0300-7839.
0300-7839
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/18961
https://www.cifor.org/knowledge/publication/1521
 
Language en
 
Source Human Ecology