Welcome to “Becoming Custodians”, a research project that aims to shed light on the transformative processes of building community-led conservation. On this feed, you will find ongoing updates, insights, and reflections.
Learn more about the researchHalfway through the project, we have almost finished the ethnographic fieldwork. More on that later. The second, explanatory part of the research has now begun, and we would like to give a short update on that. Apologies to the casual reader: this will get a bit technical.
Coming home from the field or the river, they often enjoy some afternoon drinks and meals in someone’s house, talking about anything to kill time. But this afternoon felt special, like a celebratory feast, reflecting something about how the landscape is changing.
Cik Gu’s story represents a dilemma facing all village residents: whether to hang onto ancestral lands that they struggle to manage, or hand them over to others and gain time and funds to do other things, such as running their PUMK.