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Adaptive threat management framework: integrating people and turtles

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In the 35 years since its inception, the Brazilian National Program for the Conservation of Marine Turtles (TAMAR) has had great success in protecting the five species of sea turtles that occur in Brazil. It has also contributed significantly to worldwide scientific data and knowledge about these species’ biology, such as life cycles and migration patterns. TAMAR’s conservation strategies have always relied on a variety of environmental education and social inclusion (EESI) activities highly adapted to the socio-environmental evolving contexts of its 25 locations distributed across nine states. Diversity and flexibility are critical to enable timely and effective local responses to existing or potential threats to sea turtles. The intuitive, locally adapted, decentralized, and independent way EESI activities have been carried out have generated positive results in the resolution of specific and evolving local problems through the course of the project. This article brings EESI under the same conceptual framework that underlies its conservation approach by adopting an adaptive threat management framework to organize and qualify its educational and social inclusion interventions according to the main categories of threat addressed by TAMAR.

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Acknowledgments

Special thanks to Garry Brewer, knowledgeable and supportive of the TAMAR Project, contributions at work. We welcome TAMAR staff working in communities with dedication and sensitivity promoting the participation and involvement of society in conservation of sea turtles. The TAMAR Project has official sponsorship of Petrobras.

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  1. Fundação Pró Tamar, Nacional Headquarters, Rua Rubens Guelli, 134 Sala 307, Salvador, Bahia, CEP 41815-135, Brazil

    Valéria R. F. da Silva, Gustave G. Lopez, Frederico Tognin, Gonzalo Róstan, Guy Guagni dei Marcovaldi & Maria Ângela G. dei Marcovaldi

  2. SEPS EQ 709/909 Lote A (CMJA), Sala 409A, Brasília, DF, CEP 70390-095, Brazil

    Sylvia F. Mitraud

  3. Fundação Pró Tamar, Rua Antonio Athanazio da Silva, 273 – Itaguá, Ubatuba, SP, CEP 11680-000, Brazil

    Maria L. C. P. Ferraz, Berenice M. Gomes da Silva & José Henrique Becker

  4. Fundação Pro-Tamar, Acesso Projeto Tamar, 151 – Alto Alegre, Almofala, Ceara, CEP 62592-000, Brazil

    Eduardo H. S. M. Lima & Maria Thereza D. Melo

  5. Fundação Pró Tamar, Alameda do Boldró, s/no, Fernando de Noronha, Pernambuco, CEP 53990-000, Brazil

    Armando J. B. Santos

  6. Fundação Pró Tamar – Oceanário de Aracaju, Av. Santos Dumont no 1010 Orla da Praia da Atalaia 2a etapa – Atalaia, Aracaju, Sergipe, CEP 49037-475, Brazil

    Augusto César C. D. da Silva, Jaqueline C. de Castilhos & Jamyle A. F. Batista

  7. Centro TAMAR-ICMBio, Av. Nossa Senhora dos Navegantes 451/Ed. Petro Tower, Sala 1601, Enseada do Suá, Vitória, ES, CEP 29050-030, Brazil

    João Carlos Thomé & Cecília Baptistotte

  8. Fundação Pró Tamar, Rua Professor Ademir Francisco, s/n, Barra da Lagoa, Florianópolis, SC, CEP 88061-160, Brazil

    Juçara Wanderline

  9. Environmental Future Research Institute, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Southport, QLD, 4222, Australia

    Fernanda de Vasconcellos Pegas

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da Silva, V.R.F., Mitraud, S.F., Ferraz, M.L.C.P. et al. Adaptive threat management framework: integrating people and turtles. Environ Dev Sustain 18, 1541–1558 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-015-9716-0

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