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The words about a “sea of trees”. Colonial and post-colonial narratives about G...

8º Congresso Ibérico de Estudos Africanos (CIEA8). Madrid, 2012 ; A "sea of trees" was the term chosen by Lynne Tinley (wife of the environmentalist Ken Tinley), in 1968, to describe the nuances of the colors of the Gorongosa National Park (Mozambique) environment. Observed colors, but mostly sensed colors. This communication will give voice to the testimonies of different social actors (hunters, journalists, ...

Plantas, usos e saberes: diversidade, conservação e aproveitamento do patrimóni...

Vários trabalhos de investigação etnobotânica (Carvalho et al., 2001 a 2012), que estuda as interações entre o universo vegetal e o Homem, destacam a riqueza de saberes e usos tradicionais sobre plantas em Trás-os-Montes. A biodiversidade e a riqueza paisagística do território Transmontano sustentam-se essencialmente num património natural de enorme valor, mas também num importante património cultural reflexo d...

Why is wild-life more important than people? Conservation strategies, perceptio...

Portuguese authorities for nature conservation have been engaged in comprehensive resource networks and effective legislation and regulations for protected areas putting together different efforts to sustain biodiversity and to enlist the full range of partners. It appears that the involvement and participation of local communities was the essential basis on which protected areas would build a system of managem...

Importance of local knowledge in plant resources management and conservation in...

Departamento Antropologia da Faculdade Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, CRIA – Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, CIMO – Centro de Investigação de Montanha, ICNB/PNM, ESAB/IPB ; Many European protected areas were legally created to preserve and maintain biological diversity, unique natural features and associated cultural heritage. Built over centuries as a result of geog...

Etnoprimatologia ao serviço da conservação na Guiné-Bissau: o chimpanzé como ex...

Connecting landscape conservation and management with traditional ecological kn...

Ethnobotanical surveys conducted in Trás-os-Montes (Portugal) highlighted a renewed interest in cultural values of landscapes. Long term interactions between traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and natural processes provided landscapes characterized by high diversity and relative stability. Rural contexts are facing social and economical constraints and landscapes are change accordingly. On a basis of ethnog...

Connecting landscape conservation and management with traditional ecological kn...

Ethnobotanical surveys conducted in Trás-os-Montes highlighted a renewed interest in cultural and heritage values of landscapes. Landscape diversity is mostly based on traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and practices that, since a long time ago, interacted with natural processes. Rural contexts face social and economical constraints and landscapes are change accordingly. This poster aims to describe recent...

Percursos da Etnobiologia portuguesa, dez anos de história, projectos e activid...

Resumo da comunicação oral apresentada no 1er Encuentro Hispano-Portugués de Etnobiología. 20-25 de Setembro 2010, Albacete, Espanha ; Na sequência de projecto de investigação no domínio da Etnobotânica, financiado pela FCT, foi feito um historial do desenvolvimento desta disciplina em Portugal e um levantamento dos trabalhos de índole etnobiológica passíveis de serem referenciados

Local ecological knowledge also ’comes from books'

Anthropological Notebooks, V.15, N.1, p. 27–36. ; The study of social and economic change and the consequent landscape transformation in Parque Natural de Montesinho and Parque Natural de Douro Internacional (in the northeast of Portugal) allows us to discuss the ambivalent relation between the political aims of biodiversity preservation and the social reality in protected rural areas. Ethnographic research on...

Folk medicine of trás-os-montes (Portugal). Traditional uses and bioactive comp...

Vth International Congress of Ethnobotany (ICE 09), San Carlos de Bariloche (RN) Argentina. ; Ethnobotanical surveys conducted in north-eastern Portugal along several years (2000-2009) reported plant knowledge and use of almost 150 wild species used in folk medicine. This poster documents traditional knowledge and reports the first approach to the antioxidant potential evaluation of six of these species with p...