Perspectives of wild medicine harvesters from Cape Town, South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorPetersen, Leif
dc.contributor.authorReid, Andrew M.
dc.contributor.authorMoll, Eugene J.
dc.contributor.authorHockings, Marc T.
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-10T09:10:41Z
dc.date.available2017-10-10T09:10:41Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractCape Town is a fast-growing cityscape in the Cape Floristic Region in South Africa with 24 formally protected conservation areas including the World Heritage Table Mountain National Park. These sites have been protected and managed as critical sites for local biodiversity, representing potentially one-third of all Cape Floristic Region flora species and 18% of South Africa’s plant diversity. Cape Town is also inhabited by a rapidly growing culturally and economically diverse citizenry with distinct and potentially conflicting perspectives on access to, and management of, local natural resources. In a qualitative study of 58 locally resident traditional healers of distinct cultural groups, we examined motivations underlying the generally illicit activity of harvesting of wild resources from Cape Town protected areas. Resource harvester motivations primarily link to local economic survival, health care and cultural links to particular resources and practices, ‘access for all’ outlooks, and wholesale profit-seeking perspectives. We describe these motivations, contrast them with the current formal, legal and institutional perspectives for biodiversity protection in the city, and propose managerial interventions that may improve sustainability of ongoing harvest activities.en_US
dc.identifier.citationPetersen, L. et al. (2017). Perspectives of wild medicine harvesters from Cape Town, South Africa. South African Journal of Science, 113(9/10): Art. #2016-0260en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.17159/ sajs.2017/20160260
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/3224
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherAcademy of Science of South Africa and AOSISen_US
dc.rights© 2017. The Author(s). Published under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectConservationen_US
dc.subjectWild harvesten_US
dc.subjectSustainabilityen_US
dc.subjectConflicten_US
dc.subjectMedicinal plantsen_US
dc.titlePerspectives of wild medicine harvesters from Cape Town, South Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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