Browsing by Autor "Yifan He"

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An inclusive, empirically grounded inventory facilitates recognition of diverse area-based conservation of nature
(Elsevier BV, 2024) Siyu Qin; Yifan He; Rachel Golden Kroner; Sushma Shrestha; Bruno Coutinho; Marion Karmann; Juan Carlos Ledezma; Christian Hederich Martínez; Vilisa Morón-Zambrano; Roberto Ulloa
As the international community strives to conserve 30% of Earth’s lands and waters by 2030, the full extent of area-based conservation remains unclear. Official databases do not fully recognize and track the diversity of conservation-relevant governance systems, hindering conservation research, policy, planning, and action. Here, we describe and test an inclusive, empirically grounded approach to documenting area-based governance systems that potentially advance biodiversity conservation. Among Amazonian countries, we identify greater area coverage and diversity of conservation governance systems than official databases. We further illustrate the relevance of this approach using global examples of under-recognized conservation governance systems. Our findings highlight the need for an inclusive, empirically grounded inventory that reflects the full diversity of area-based conservation systems. We recommend researchers, governments, non-state actors, and donors to adopt similar inventories to increase feasibility, transparency, and inclusivity as a foundational component of global efforts to fulfill international commitments and create a nature-positive future.
Enact reforms to protect Bolivia’s forests from fire
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2025) Yifan He; Stasiek Czaplicki Cabezas; Oswaldo Maillard; Robert Müller; Alfredo Romero‐Muñoz; Laurenz Feliciano Romero Pimentel; Alcides Vadillo; Vincent Antoine Vos
Guardians of the Forests: How Should an Indigenous Community in Eastern Bolivia Defend Their Land and Forests under Increasing Political and Economic Pressures?
(University of California Press, 2019) Yifan He; Juan Pablo Baldiviezo; Arun Agrawal; Vicente Candaguira; Ivette Perfecto
Many indigenous communities across Latin America depend on forests for livelihood. In eastern Bolivia, indigenous communities face increasing challenges in forest management due to insecure land tenure, lack of capacity, and state policies that favor extractivism and export-oriented agriculture. This case study examines the dilemma of forest management in the Guarayos Indigenous Territory, with a particular focus on the influence of conflictive policies under Evo Morales administration. Using a combination of literature reviews, semi-structured interviews, and land use/land cover analysis, we investigated the drivers behind the challenges that the Guarayos indigenous community is facing in the forest and land governance and explore potential solutions. We found that deforestation within the Guarayos Indigenous Territory from 2000 to 2017 was primarily driven by agricultural commodity production. Despite its promises on protecting nature and the indigenous peoples, the government weakened the Guarayos indigenous people’s governance capacity through failure of forest law enforcement, prioritization of extractivism and export-oriented agriculture, and support for land titling of external entities. We presented these findings through a case narrative featuring the president of Guarayos indigenous government as the decision-maker. This case study provides an illustrative example of the challenges and management strategies in indigenous land and forest governance in the Latin American context. A Spanish version of this case study is available at https://www.learngala.com/cases/bolivia-forests-esp.