Local knowledge of biotic diversity and its conservation in rural Hausaland, northern Nigeria
Local knowledge of biotic diversity and its conservation in rural Hausaland, northern Nigeria
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DOI：
10.1663/0013-0001(2002)056
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发表时间：
2002-01-01
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影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Etkin, NL
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作者：
Etkin, NL
由于生物多样性主要是从西方的角度进行辩论，受威胁类群的重要性尚未在其使用的文化和生态背景下得到适当的评估。相反，可保护的物种往往是由文化和政治上与受威胁环境无关的局外人确定的。然而，在过去十年左右的时间里，越来越多的研究记录了土著知识和土著人民为什么以及如何能够成为发展和可持续保护的一部分。这里介绍的是一个尼日利亚的例子，说明如何，正式的保护工作是由于他们未能考虑到当地的环境知识的障碍。我认为，在豪萨兰生物多样性的潜在侵蚀已经检查的耕地和其他土地的不同管理，并在重叠的情况下使用的植物-作为药物，食品，等等。
Because biodiversity is debated primarily from western perspectives, the significance of threatened taxa has not been properly assessed in the cultural and ecological contexts of their use. Instead, conservable species tend to be identified by outsiders who are culturally and politically detached,from the threatened environments. However, over the last decade or so a growing number of studies document why and how indigenous knowledge and people can become part of development and sustainable conservation. Presented here is a Nigerian example that illustrates how,formal conservation efforts are handicapped by their failure to take into account local environmental knowledge. I argue that the potential erosion of biodiversity in Hausaland has been checked by the varied management of cultivated and other lands, and by the use of plants in overlapping contexts- as medicines, foods, and the like.