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0 | Local perspectives on conservation These results show that the local people want to be part of the conservation process and not just be considered an external threat that should be banned from any extractive activity. Recognition of their rights, negotiation on the possibility to collect forest products and emphasis on local people’s responsibility for their own land should be considered important elements of a successful conservation effort in Khe Tran. Summary Even if sometimes they are following the ‘official’ position on biodiversity conservation and its definition, villagers explained that they would like to be part of the process, for various reasons: to get access to resources, to enhance their rights to the land, to get payment for the activities they would perform for the FPD. By doing so, local people expect to be able to negotiate with the government the sustainable use of a number of resources, mainly NTFPs, but some logging and game hunting too. They want to collaborate with conservation institutions and to preserve the forest for the future and as a safety net, since they do not strongly rely on forest resource anymore.
0. Conclusion and recommendations In conclusion to the MLA activities implemented during this SDC-funded project, ‘Stakeholders and biodiversity at the local level’, we discuss the relevance of the method, summarize the main results of our surveys in the context of the different objectives of the project and provide recommendations in the Khe Tran village context. 10.1. Conclusion 10.1.1. Relevance of MLA in a Vietnamese context If the overall project sought to strengthen local capacity to plan and implement locally relevant and viable forest landscape management, two objectives were particularly relevant to our MLA activities: • to develop appropriate mechanisms for integrating local perceptions and views in decision making and planning; and • to facilitate greater involvement of local people and other stakeholders in decision making and planning at the local level. We proposed, by our activities, to test a set of tools, the MLA, designed to study local perception of landscapes and natural resources in the local context, a small village in rural Central Vietnam. We are now able to confirm that the MLA tool was relevant to this kind of study and provided valuable information on the local management of natural resources. It was adapted to the Khe Tran context, where forest has been disturbed and no longer plays the role it used to play in local livelihoods. Plot sampling, because it records both tree and non-tree specimens, can be used in various environments: forests, plantations or even rice fields. The socio-economic data and the information about local perception gained through scoring exercises and
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