The Community-Conservation Conundrum: Is Citizen Science the Answer?

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The Community-Conservation Conundrum: Is Citizen Science the Answer?

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Public participation theory assumes that empowering communities leads to enduring support for new initiatives. The New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy, approved in 2000, embraces this assumption and includes goals for community involvement in resolving threats to native flora and fauna. Over the last 20 years, community-based ecological restoration groups have proliferated, with between 600 and 4000 identified. Many of these groups control invasive mammals, and often include protection of nativ...

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2016-10-01

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Mel Galbraith / Barbara Bollard-Breen / David R. Towns

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http://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/5/4/37

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ecological restoration / citizen science / monitoring / conservation volunteering / New Zealand / wicked problems / Agriculture

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