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T1  - Are sacred caves still safe havens for the endemic bats of Madagascar? 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/234600 
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A1  - Fernandez-Llamazares, Alvaro; Lopez-Baucells, Adria; Rocha, Ricardo; Andriamitandrina, Santatra F. M.; Andriatafika, Zo Emmanuel; Burgas, Daniel; Temba, Eric Marcel; Torrent, Laura; Cabeza, Mar 
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Y1  - 2018 
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AB  - Despite conservation discourses in Madagascar increasingly emphasizing the role of customary institutions for wildlife management, we know relatively little about their effectiveness. Here, we used semi-structured interviews with 54 adults in eight villages to investigate whether sacred caves and taboos offer conservation benefits for cave-dwelling bats in and around Tsimanampetsotsa National Park, south-west Madagascar. Although some caves were described as sites of spiritual significance for t... 
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KW  - Bats; culture; customs; fady; Madagascar; sacred natural sites; spiritual values; Tsimanampetsotsa National Park; CONSERVATION; MANAGEMENT; SITES; 1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology 
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