Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Challenges to conservation: land use change and local participation in the Al Reem Biosphere Reserve, West Qatar. | Sillitoe et al. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2010 6 28 http content 6 1 28 JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY AND ETHNOMEDICINE RESEARCH Open Access Challenges to conservation land use change and local participation in the Al Reem Biosphere Reserve West Qatar Paul Sillitoe1 2 Ali A Alshawi1 Abdul K Al-Amir Hassan1 Abstract One response to humanity s unsustainable use of natural resources and consequent degradation even destruction of the environment is to establish conservation areas to protect Nature and preserve biodiversity at least in selected regions. In Qatar the government has shown strong support for this approach confronted by the environmental consequences of oil and gas extraction and rapid urban development by designating about one-tenth of the country a conservation area. Located in the west of the peninsula it comprises the Al Reem Reserve subsequently declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. Several approaches have figured in conservation currently popular is co-management featuring participation of the local population which recognises that people s activities often contribute to today s environment with the promotion of bio-cultural diversity. However these assumptions may not hold where rapid social and cultural change occurs as in Qatar. We explore the implications of such change notably in land use. We detail changes resulting with the move from nomadic to sedentary lifestyles in land access which now features tribal-state control and herding strategies which now feature migrant labour and depend on imported fodder and water underwritten by the country s large gas and oil revenues. Current stocking arrangements - animals herded in much smaller areas than previously - are thought responsible for the degradation of natural resources. The place of animals notably camels in Qatari life has also changed greatly possibly further promoting overstocking. Many local people disagree. What are the implications of such changes for the .
