Browsing by Author "Almuna, Rocio"

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    Biodiversity Conservation Requires Management of Feral Domestic Animals
    (2019) Bonacic Salas, Cristian; Almuna, Rocio; Tomas Ibarra, J.
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    Drivers of canine distemper virus exposure in dogs at a wildlife interface in Janos, Mexico
    (2021) Almuna, Rocio; Lopez-Perez, Andres M.; Sarmiento, Rosa E.; Suzan, Gerardo
    Background Human population expansion has increased the contact between domestic animals and wildlife, thereby increasing the transmission of infectious diseases including canine distemper virus (CDV). Here, we investigated the risk factors associated with CDV exposure in domestic and wild carnivores from the Janos Biosphere Reserve (JBR), Mexico.
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    The Future of Rurality: Place Attachment among Young Inhabitants of Two Rural Communities of Mediterranean Central Chile
    (2022) Rodriguez-Diaz, Paulina; Almuna, Rocio; Marchant, Carla; Heinz, Sally; Lebuy, Roxana; Celis-Diez, Juan L.; Diaz-Siefer, Pablo
    Rural livelihoods are under threat, not only from climate change and soil erosion but also because young people in rural areas are increasingly moving to urbanized areas, seeking employment and education opportunities. In the Valparaiso region of Chile, megadrought, soil degradation, and industrialization are driving young people to leave agricultural and livestock activities. In this study, our main objective was to identify the factors influencing young people living in two rural agricultural communities (Valle Hermoso and La Vega). We conducted 90 online surveys of young people aged 13-24 to evaluate their interest in living in the countryside (ILC). We assessed the effect of community satisfaction, connectedness to nature, and social valuation of rural livelihoods on the ILC. The results show that young people were more likely to stay living in the countryside when they felt satisfied and safe in their community, felt a connection with nature, and were surrounded by people who enjoyed the countryside. These results highlight the relevance of promoting place attachment and the feeling of belonging within the rural community. Chilean rural management and local policies need to focus on rural youth and highlight the opportunities that the countryside provides for them.
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    We are silently paving the way toward human-wildlife coexistence: The role of women in the rural landscapes of southern Andes
    (2022) Almuna, Rocio; Cortes, Josefina; Medina, Maria de los Angeles; Vargas, Solange P.
    Gender plays an important role in human-wildlife coexistence. Women have their own distinct form of environmental knowledge; women shape attitudes and perceptions related to wildlife and influence the use of natural spaces and the nature of human-wildlife interactions. Being a female farmer or practitioner involved in human-wildlife conflict mitigation poses a variety of obstacles and benefits. The way conservation conflicts are perceived and managed is gendered, and this needs to be taken into account when working with local communities to achieve effective and fluent dialogue, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The existing body of evidence is focused mainly in Africa and Asia and suggests that the sharing of landscapes between humans and wildlife has different implications for men and women with respect to their attitudes toward wildlife and how they are impacted by it. Although extensive research has been done in relation to gender, conservation, and natural resource management, the gender perspective of human-wildlife coexistence is underreported. Feminist political ecology emphasizes that gender differences originate in the need to overcome existing social and political barriers and is highlighting the importance of en-gendering research. In Chile, work in the rural sector poses various challenges, especially for women. Rural landscapes are, in general, dominated by men, with low female participation in decision-making spaces. Nonetheless, this appears to be silently changing. In this perspective, we contrast three undocumented experiences of our work as female researchers and facilitators of human-wildlife coexistence (northern case, central case, and southern case). The aim of this perspective piece is to expose current findings for the role of women in human-wildlife coexistence, contrast these with our reports, and propose future directions.