Project description
Connecting local knowledge with global biodiversity action
A farm on the edge of a wildlife habitat raises questions about the relationship between people and wild animals, crucial for biodiversity conservation. Current management approaches focus on biology and ecology, missing local traditions and people’s historical relationships with wildlife. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the COEXIST project aims to shed light on this aspect. Across diverse Thai landscapes, the project combines transdisciplinary fieldwork, ecological modelling, participatory mapping and narrative approaches. It will collaborate with local communities and policymakers in order to create a social-ecological indicator for assessing human-wildlife relationship challenges, which are not captured within the Global Biodiversity Framework. The goal is to support effective conservation policies that contribute to achieving the objectives of the Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework.
Objective
COEXIST addresses the urgent need to consider and integrate issues related to Human-Wildlife Relationships (HWR) into global biodiversity policies. Despite growing recognition of these issues, conservation science and practice lack tools to capture the social-ecological complexity of HWR. This project aims to (1) uncover the complexity of HWR in practice through transdisciplinary fieldwork, (2) harness transdisciplinary evidence into a scalable and actionable policy tool for biodiversity conservation, and (3) map out the mechanisms that enable the integration of local knowledge into global biodiversity policies. COEXIST will achieve these objectives through the co-construction of a social-ecological indicator able to monitor HWR issues. We propose to carry out this project under a 33-month MSCA-PF-GF. COEXIST will implement an innovative travelling fieldwork methodology across diverse Thai landscapes and communities, offering unique social-ecological diversity and complexity. This approach combines ecological modelling, participatory mapping, and narrative elicitation. The resulting evidence will inform the co-construction of an innovative compound indicator in collaboration with a wide range of actors, including academics, policymakers and civil society, especially Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, and regional support centres of the Convention on Biological Diversity. This indicator will be tested and presented within the CBD framework, contributing to Target 4 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, which lacks an indicator to monitor conservation efforts related to HWR issues. By bridging local knowledge and global policy, COEXIST provides a replicable model for inclusive, evidence-based conservation that aligns with the global biodiversity policy timeline. It supports the MSCA Work Programme by advancing inter- and transdisciplinary research, strengthening science-policy interfaces, and promoting equitable biodiversity governance.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-GF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
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NE1 7RU Newcastle Upon Tyne
United Kingdom
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