Seven Names for the Bellbird: Conservation Geography in Honduras,Used
Seven Names for the Bellbird: Conservation Geography in Honduras,Used

Seven Names for the Bellbird: Conservation Geography in Honduras,Used

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Offering intimate and unforgettable descriptions of the birds and people that inhabit Honduran landscapes, Seven Names for the Bellbird showcases the deeprooted local traditions of bird appreciation and holds them up as a model for sound management of the environment. Through his appreciative recounting of local lore, author Mark Bonta makes the interaction between culture and avifauna in Latin America a key to better understanding the practice of biodiversity protection. He makes a significant contribution to the scarce anthropological and geographical literature on humanenvironment relationships in Central America and also provides wonderful stories of native birds and their human observers.After a decade in the field in Honduras, Mark Bonta came to realize that, contrary to outsiders general beliefs, the society he observed was predisposed to like birds, to observe birds, to weave them into folklore, and to protect them on private property. Bonta argues that if North Americans and Europeans paid real attention to local knowledge and practiceinstead of condemning them outofhand and imposing new beliefs and techniquesthey would learn that rural cultures offer alternative ways of accommodating habitats and wildlife.Bonta uses the concept of conservation geographythe study of human beings and their landscapes, with natural resource conservation in the forefrontto advance his argument. He describes many cases where local individuals and their traditional knowledge of birds contribute to a de facto variety of bird conservation that precedes or parallels official bird protection efforts.This book is not offered as proof that all birds have happy futures in the Neotropics. Bonta recognizes the ravages of both human pressures and natural disasters on the birds and forests. But he shows that in many instances, birds are safe and even thrive in the presence of local people, who celebrate them just as often as they persecute them.

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