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25th International Congress for Conservation Biology • Auckland, New Zealand • 5-9 December 2011 from 0.86 to 1.02% and from 0.75 to 2.43%, respectively. Microbial CO2 evolution values for crusts B-E fluctuated between 0.79 and 1.32 μg CO2-C g-1 dry soil h-1, which was two-fold lower in comparison to crust A. However, there were no significant differences in microbial biomass between different crust types. The values of community-level physiological profiles were found to increase from 108.6 for crust A to 196.7 μg CO2-C g-1 dry soil h-1for crust E, and the values for crusts C and E were significantly (P
25th International Congress for Conservation Biology • Auckland, New Zealand • 5-9 December 2011 The constitutional dictate to protect biodiversity in Papua New Guinea is implemented through legislative and project initiatives that most commentators believe are inadequate. A new impetus for conservation has emerged through funding for climate change adaptation and mitigation. We reviewed 20 years of conservation projects in PNG and suggest ways to improve on them. In the past there have been differing world views and motivations for conservation between project proponents and locals, and a profound lack of insight into the local cultural context. The development aspirations of locals have not been met by projects that could not compete with extractive industries. And when they tried, economic motivations took attention away from conservation and this disappeared completely when goods and services were not delivered. Projects alienated local people by not sharing knowledge and information with them during design and implementation. Project proponents need to work with locals in defining conservation in the local context and understanding its practical implications for things like food security, cultural survival and adaptation to climate change. Projects must operate at appropriate social scales and support not supplant local knowledge and social systems. Strategic partnerships are required to avoid conservationists filling the role of other groups. Careful attention to past mistakes and ways of avoiding them should result in more conservation successes in PNG. Supporting on-ground education & outreach efforts, e.g. Baviaanskloof Nature Awareness Group - a grassroots initiative driven by local youth as a result of their combined efforts to reconnect themselves, school children and broader community with nature. This poster will present research and education outputs from each of the above areas. 2011-12-07 18:00 Meaningful nature experiences: reconnecting society with a conservation ethic ZYLSTRA, MJ*, Dept. Conservation Ecology & Entomology, Stellenbosch University; Knight, AT, Dept. Conservation Ecology & Entomology,Stellenbosch University; Esler, KJ, Dept. Conservation Ecology & Entomology,Stellenbosch University; Le Grange, L, Faculty of Education (Curriculum Studies), Stellenbosch University; Eco-literacy decline, technology immersion, information saturation and the ‘extinction of experience’ are all recognised as contributors to the disconnect separating an increasingly urbanized society and the rest of nature. Bridging this divide is a transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral endeavour which must simultaneously focus on policy change and personal change. Conservation science’s efforts have largely focused on policy change with rational information-rich ‘need to act’ messages. Such messages are often ineffective in engaging the public at the personal level. Environmental psychology perspectives reveal that we must rather emotionally inspire the individual with ‘love to act’ messages. Meaningful nature experiences (MNEs) provide an avenue for realising multiple aspirations linked to societal engagement and the fostering of a sustainability ethic. Mixed methods research involving persons who have had profound encounters with wildlife provides new evidence for being more connected to nature and impassioned for conservation. Results suggest that MNEs influence an individual’s behaviour toward the environment (the outer) and also support human development (the inner). Education influences how MNEs are perceived, particularly with reference to the impact of invasive alien species. This all carries implications when designing educational and/or social marketing interventions. We conclude that MNEs should become more central to the conservation-society dialogue. 2011-12-08 18:30 The science, action and art of reconnecting with nature through meaningful experience ZYLSTRA, MJ*, Dept. Conservation Ecology & Entomology, Stellenbosch University; eyes4earth.org is an action research initiative encouraging shared learning about the benefits of reconnecting with nature through meaningful experience. eyes4earth.org is a transdisciplinary endeavour exploring: 1. If/how meaningful experiences and profound encounters with wildlife reconnect humans with nature; 2. How ecological change (focusing on impacts from alien invasive species) affects the intensity and frequency of meaningful nature experiences; and 3. How insights from such experiences may practically inform action-oriented education for sustainability (in building social-ecological resilience). eyes4earth.org aims to stimulate public awareness and reflection on the profound ways we benefit, interact and participate with nature. It is doing this through: 1. Science: Strengthening capacity to further research on the links between meaningful experience and connectedness to nature to better inform education for sustainability; 2. Art: Utilising a range of social media tools to engage and interact with the public. Sharing personal stories collated on meaningful nature experiences through creative audio and visual material; 3. Action: 185
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