Pienkowski, Thomas, Clark, Matt, Jagadish, Arundhati, Albert, Aklei, Brar, Mohanjeet, Breedveld, Tarn, Chinangwa, Linda, Gohil, Deepali, Irumba, Deziderius, Kanaan, Ramzy, and others. (2025) Diagnosing scaling bottlenecks in 10 community conservation initiatives in southern and eastern Africa. Conservation Biology, . Article Number e70149. ISSN 0888-8892. E-ISSN 1523-1739. (doi:10.1111/cobi.70149) (KAR id:111247)
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Abstract
Scaling area‐based conservation, including initiatives led or comanaged by Indigenous Peoples and local communities, is a flagship goal of the Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Conservationists often aspire to scale initiatives, but this is rarely achieved in practice. Identifying and addressing factors that limit initiative adoption (i.e., bottlenecks) could improve scaling strategies. We used insightsfrom 84 expert surveys to identify potential risk factors and bottlenecks to scaling 10 community, area‐based initiatives in southern and eastern Africa. The number of reported potential risk factors and bottlenecks varied among initiatives. However, unfair benefit sharing, unequal decision‐making, inflexible rules, and top‐down leadership were frequently identified as bottlenecks. Although adopting initiatives had costs (e.g., increased local conflicts, reduced local access to natural resources and cropland), most experts believed these costs were offset by other benefits and thus did not constitute bottlenecks. Our results did not capture local perspectives, but they suggest scaling strategies that strengthen environmental governance may support more socially just and durable approaches to meeting area‐based conservation goals.
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| DOI/Identification number: | 10.1111/cobi.70149 |
| Uncontrolled keywords: | and scaling deep; escala vertical; gestión comunitaria de los recursos naturales; adoption; engagement; community‐based natural resource management; scaling out; OECMs; participación; 30 by 30; adopción; otras medidas efectivas de conservación basada en el área; scaling up; scaling bottlenecks; community‐based conservation; horizontal y profunda; 30 para el 30; escalada de cuellos de botella; other effective area‐based conservation measures; conservación comunitaria |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QH Natural history > QH75 Conservation (Biology) |
| Institutional Unit: | Institutes > Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology |
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Leverhulme Trust (https://ror.org/012mzw131)
Research England (https://ror.org/02wxr8x18) |
| SWORD Depositor: | JISC Publications Router |
| Depositing User: | JISC Publications Router |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Sep 2025 08:39 UTC |
| Last Modified: | 17 Sep 2025 13:01 UTC |
| Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/111247 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
University of Kent Author Information
Pienkowski, Thomas.
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