Uneasy Bedfellows Contrasting Models of Conservation in Peninsular Malaysia Lye TuckPo

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Uneasy Bedfellows? Contrasting Models of
Conservation in Peninsular MalaysiaLye Tuck-Po

• Differences in understandings of the role of
  people in forests
• Batek model
• Forest dwellers guard the forest without
  people the forest disappears
• Conservation begins with practical interactions
  with environmental processes
• Conservation is about relations with various
  visible and invisible components of the universe
• Knowledge comes from 1) superhuman beings and
  deceased elders and 2) interacting with each
  other and the environment
• Scientific knowledge is inappropriate, intrusive,
  and restricts their freedom
• Anthropocentric view
• People have critical role in maintaining the
  environment
• Conservationist model
• Urban people protect the forest
• Conservation begins by taking people out of the
  forest
• Knowledge comes from research academic
  institutions
• Ecocentric view
• People have marginal role in shaping the
  environment

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Uneasy Bedfellows? Contrasting Models of
Conservation in Peninsular MalaysiaLye Tuck-Po

• Tuck-Pos recommendations
• Conservation projects should address problems of
  nature and problems of society
• Create and recreate the social conditions that
  promote a more inclusive view of nature that is
  inside/integrated with society
• Consider Batek paradigm because it has historical
  roots in the forest and can outlast future
  changes in governing personnel of conservation
  organizations

Tuck Po in Action by Bion Griffin