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What Works in Conservation 2021

 | 
William Junior Sutherland
, 
Lynn V. Dicks
, 
Silviu O. Petrovan
, 
et al.

15. Terrestrial mammal conservation

15.14 Education and awareness raising

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Likely to be beneficial

Encourage community-based participation in land management

1Two studies evaluated the effects of encouraging community-based participation in management of mammals to reduce mammal persecution. One study was in Pakistan and one was in India.

2COMMUNITY RESPONSE (0 STUDIES)

3POPULATION RESPONSE (1 STUDY)

4Abundance (1 study): A study in Pakistan found that involving local communities with park management was associated with an increasing population of Himalayan brown bears.

5BEHAVIOUR (0 STUDIES)

6OTHER (1 STUDY)

7Human behaviour change (1 study): A study in Namibia found that fewer farmers who engaged in community-based management of land, through membership of a conservancy, removed large carnivores from their land than did non-conservancy members.

8Assessment: likely to be beneficial (effectiveness 70 %; certainty 40 %; harms 0 %).

https://www.conservationevidence.com/​actions/​2395

Provide education programmes to improve behaviour towards mammals and reduce threats

9Two studies evaluated the effects of providing education programmes to improve behaviour towards mammals and reduce threats. One study was in South Africa and one was in the USA.

10COMMUNITY RESPONSE (0 STUDIES)

11POPULATION RESPONSE (1 STUDY)

12Abundance (1 study): A before-and-after study in South Africa found that educating ranchers on ways of reducing livestock losses, along with stricter hunting policies, increased leopard density.

13Survival (1 study): A before-and-after study in South Africa found that educating ranchers on ways of reducing livestock losses, along with stricter hunting policies, reduced leopard mortalities.

14BEHAVIOUR (0 STUDIES)

15OTHER (1 STUDY)

16Human behaviour change (1 study): A replicated, controlled, before-and-after study in the USA found that visiting households to educate about the danger of garbage to black bears did not increase use of wildlife-resistant dumpsters. Assessment: likely to be beneficial (effectiveness 55 %; certainty 40 %; harms 0 %).

https://www.conservationevidence.com/​actions/​2423

Publish data on ranger performance to motivate increased anti-poacher efforts

17One study evaluated the effects on poaching incidents of publishing data on ranger performance to motivate increased anti-poacher efforts. This study was in Ghana.

18COMMUNITY RESPONSE (0 STUDIES)

19POPULATION RESPONSE (1 STUDY)

20Survival (1 study): A replicated, before-and-after, site comparison study in Ghana found that when data were publishing on staff performance, poaching incidents decreased on these sites and on sites from which performance data were not published.

21BEHAVIOUR (0 STUDIES)

22OTHER (1 STUDY)

23Human behaviour change (1 study): A replicated, before-and-after, site comparison study in Ghana found that publishing data on staff performance lead to an increase in anti-poaching patrols.

24Assessment: likely to be beneficial (effectiveness 60 %; certainty 40 %; harms 0 %).

https://www.conservationevidence.com/​actions/​2426

Train and support local staff to help reduce persecution of mammals

25One study evaluated the effects of training and supporting local staff to help reduce persecution of mammals. This study was in Kenya.

26COMMUNITY RESPONSE (0 STUDIES)

27POPULATION RESPONSE (1 STUDY)

28Survival (1 study): A replicated, before-and-after study in Kenya found that employing local tribesmen to dissuade pastoralists from killing lions and to assist with livestock protection measures, alongside compensating for livestock killed by lions, reduced lion killings by pastoralists.

29BEHAVIOUR (0 STUDIES)

30Assessment: likely to be beneficial (effectiveness 75 %; certainty 40 %; harms 0 %).

https://www.conservationevidence.com/​actions/​2425

Unknown effectiveness

Use campaigns and public information to improve behaviour towards mammals and reduce threats

31Two studies evaluated the effects of using campaigns and public information to improve behaviour towards mammals and reduce threats. One study was in the USA and one was in Lao People’s Democratic Republic.

32COMMUNITY RESPONSE (0 STUDIES)

33POPULATION RESPONSE (0 STUDIES)

34BEHAVIOUR (0 STUDIES)

35OTHER (2 STUDIES)

36Human behaviour change (2 studies): A randomized, replicated, controlled, before-and-after study in the USA found that displaying education signs did not reduce the percentage of garbage containers that were accessible to black bears. A controlled, before-and-after study in Lao People’s Democratic Republic found that a social marketing campaign promoting a telephone hotline increased reporting of illegal hunting.

37Assessment: unknown effectiveness (effectiveness 40 %; certainty 30 %; harms 0 %).

https://www.conservationevidence.com/​actions/​2422

No evidence found (no assessment)

38We have captured no evidence for the following interventions:

39• Provide science-based films, radio programmes, or books about mammals to improve behaviour towards mammals and reduce threats.

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