Journal article
People's Perceptions about the Importance of Forests on Borneo
E Meijaard, NK Abram, JA Wells, AS Pellier, M Ancrenaz, DLA Gaveau, RK Runting, K Mengersen
Plos One | PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE | Published : 2013
Abstract
We ascertained villagers' perceptions about the importance of forests for their livelihoods and health through 1,837 reliably answered interviews of mostly male respondents from 185 villages in Indonesian and Malaysian Borneo. Variation in these perceptions related to several environmental and social variables, as shown in classification and regression analyses. Overall patterns indicated that forest use and cultural values are highest among people on Borneo who live close to remaining forest, and especially among older Christian residents. Support for forest clearing depended strongly on the scale at which deforestation occurs. Deforestation for small-scale agriculture was generally conside..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The studies were financially supported by the Arcus Foundation, donors of the Nature Conservancy's Adopt an Acre program, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) (www.usaid.gov/), and the Sall Family Foundation. USAID agreed to the study being conducted. The Arcus Foundation, USAID, the Sall Family Foundation, and People and Nature Consulting International had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.