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Community-based conservation has gained traction in the Brazilian Amazon due to its potential in combining territorial protection, local well-being, and biodiversity conservation. Here, we conducted an innovative assessment of the effective protection footprint of the largest community-based fisheries conservation arrangement in the Amazon. Local c...
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... total of 96 protected oxbow lakes hosting a population count of approximately 109,000 adult arapaima, and under the direct jurisdiction and stewardship of 14 rural communities, were mapped along the Juruá River (Fig. 3). These communities were on average spaced by 82.8 km from the nearest town (range = 51.78-110.9 km). Each of these communities on average contained 12.6 families (range = 2-32), with a total of 177 families participating in community-based lake surveillance. On average, 6.4 lakes (range = 1-13) were protected per community, with ...
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... begin to recede, arapaima shows a high degree of site delity, returning to their breeding lakes, particularly when conditions are quiet including low ambient noise (Campos-Silva et al., 2019). This therefore demands a much greater community effort during this period to protect stocks against human disruptions induced by shing gear and poaching (Fig. 3). This leads to a marked peak of labour-intensive surveillance activity that requires substantial resources, including food supplies, fuel, boats and canoes, and a larger number of volunteers because groups of arapaima can ee the lakes prematurely if they perceive a threat from outside ...
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... Juruá (ResEx Médio Juruá, 5º33'54"S, 67º42'47"W). These reserves were decreed in 1997 and 2005, respectively, and currently contain ~ 4,000 inhabitants distributed across 74 communities, most of which near the river channel, along a uvial distance of 800 km, in addition to communities located along the banks of oxbow lakes and perennial streams (Fig. ...
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... co-management activities exert varying impacts at different spatial scales of inuence (Fig. 3). First, there is a (1) direct scale of protection, represented by the immediate lake area where actual surveillance takes place. Second, there is an (2) effective scale of protection, which is represented by the total area within the community surveillance boundaries. Third, there is a (3) functional scale of protection, represented by ...
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