Focus group discussion is frequently used as a qualitative approach to gain an in‐depth
understanding of social issues. The method aims to obtain data from a purposely selected …

This study uses a combination of remote sensing data, field interviews and observations,
and landscape indices to examine the dynamics of land use and land cover (LULC), identify …

Equity has become a major concern in efforts to conserve nature. However, in the Global
South, inequitable social impacts of conservation usually prevail. We investigate barriers to …

Abstract Africa's Protected Area (PA) estate includes some of the world's most iconic wildlife
and wildlands and preserves ecosystem services upon which people depend. However …

Community-based conservation (CBC) has emerged as a practical and ethical governance
approach for seeking to balance development and biodiversity objectives. Yet, despite the …

For their livelihoods, many people rely on the services offered by forest ecosystems.
Nevertheless, forests are being lost and degraded on a global scale, endangering the …

Protected areas (PAs) are social-ecological systems (SES) and are contested spaces. The
challenges in governing PAs call for a governance system that works with human-nature …

To promote forest landscape restoration (FLR), national governments have embarked on far
reaching policy reforms to reclassify lands targeted for restoration, designate legitimate …

Abstract Introduction Growing Eucalyptus at a farm level in the form of woodlot has become
popular among rural households in Ethiopia. For example, rural households mainly …

Conflict over land use is one of the challenges faced by large carnivore conservation
programs in human-disturbed landscapes. Designing effective conservation strategies …