Hot off the press: “Assessment of local community perspective about caiman management in the Mamiraua Reserve, Brazil” was just published in Volume 13 of International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development (DOI: 10.4018/IJSESD.287884) by Robinson Botero-Arias and colleagues Diogo de Lima Franco, Rodolfo Araújo Moraes Filho and Tales Wanderley Vital.  The study reports on a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis done in collaboration with several communities affected by a community-based caiman management plan.  This analysis identified aspects of the program that were working well, need improvement, and/or threatened effectiveness and success.  As such, the outcomes should help resource managers at the Mamiraua Sustainable Development Reserve adapt their program moving forward.

The black caiman (Melanosuchus niger) photo shown here is by berniedup is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0