Understanding Human-Animal Relations in the Context of Primate Conservation: A Multispecies Ethnographic Approach in North Morocco

摘要: Strategies for conserving species threatened with extinction are often driven by ecological data. However, in anthropogenic landscapes, understanding and incorporating local people's perceptions may enhance conservation. We examine the relationships shepherds, living on periphery of mixed oak forest Bouhachem northern Morocco, have animals context a conservation project Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus). analyse ethnographic data to provide insights into shepherds' conceptions which bring shepherds - goats (Capra hircus), domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris), African wolf lupaster). interpret these within framework boundary theory. Our multispecies approach illuminates different and, case dog macaque, complex ways perceive each species. Some show intrinsic interest macaques, revealing potential recruits activities. As any study, our interpretations human-animal relations not extrapolate other areas macaque's distribution because unique nature both people place. recommend that conservationists place-based between humans improve wildlife efforts.