Title
Reviewing the conservation actions: A lesson learned from village which depends on threatened species for their livelihoods
Author(s)
Benaya Simeon; Soraya Gigentika; Mushin; Kurniasih Nur; Efin Muttaqin
Published
2022
Abstract
Indonesia known as country with rich natural biodiversity which the people also depend on the natural resources including marine resources. The dependency also occurs on elasmobranch group which has been being commodity for decades, meanwhile it had been concerned and prioritizing to be managed and conserved. West Nusa Tenggara is a province who led conservation actions for elasmobranch in Indonesia, which some of the fishers targeting and highly depends on elasmobranch catches. There were about 150 elasmobranch fishers’ families, while the main economics domino effect could influence at least 3 villages. The complexity of socio-economics conditions made the conservation actions very challenging to be done. Since 2018 to 2021 conservation actions have been conducted, there were: (1) habitat protection, (2) catch-effort limitation, and (3) livelihood approach. From 3 years monitoring and evaluation of conservation actions, we recorded that the number of juvenile catches of critically endangered species has decreased which showed a good indicator for the conservation effort. But we found due to pandemic COVID-19 the fluctuation of utilization was found which also influenced the local compliance of catch effort limitation. Livelihood approaches were conducted to shark fisher and wives, whose shark fishers supported by additional job as tourism operator and the wives as fish processor. We found that the livelihood approach to the wives group stood well and helped them better through the pandemic compared with tourism operators. We found that those conservation actions could not be separated due to the economic aspects to support any conservation actions for elasmobranch.
Keywords
conservation; elasmobranch; habitat protection; catch effort limitation; livelihood approach
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