Anthropology and Nature Conservation – Protecting the Hermit Beetle in the Nature Reserve Poodří, Czechia

0556992 - EÚ 2023 US eng A - Abstract
Mácha, Přemysl
Anthropology and Nature Conservation – Protecting the Hermit Beetle in the Nature Reserve Poodří, Czechia.
[Anthropology and Nature Conservation – Protecting the Hermit Beetle in the Nature Reserve Poodří, Czechia.]
2022.
[The Revolutionary Potential of the Social Sciences - 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. 22.03.2022-26.03.2022, Salt Lake City]
Institutional support: RVO:68378076
Keywords : hermit beetle * nature conservation * Poodří
OECD category: Antropology, ethnology
https://www.appliedanthro.org/publications/news/february-2022/extraction-and-environment-tig

The paper discusses challenges associated with practicing applied anthropology in a conservationist project attempting to protect the hermit beetle living in old trees in a nature reserve in eastern Czechia. Nature conservation in Czechia has traditionally been a monopoly of biologists and ecologists. Bringing humans and human-nature relations into the conservation efforts has thus not been easy, especially when research data may appear to threaten the credibility of the official conservation narrative. Professional integrity, however, has to take precendence over conservation efforts and the challenge is to learn to communicate without jeopardizing either.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0331168