1. Please indicate the level of achievement of the project’s original objectives and include any relevant comments on factors affecting this. achieved Not achieved Partially achieved Fully Objective Comments Examine human X A total of 224 interviews were perceptions of aquatic undertaken. The species most predators in Loreto. commonly ranked first as Interviews in four competitors for fish and fish net communities outside damage were pink dolphins, Pucacuro National followed by giant otter and Reserve and in one Neotropical otter. community in River Napo. Explore long-term X We highlighted a need to evaluate changes in teenagers’ the success of environmental attitudes to giant otters education programmes, properly after being exposed to target groups, and to consider the environmental limitations of short-term ‘one-hit’ education about giant environmental education sessions. otters in 2009, visited San Martin de Tipishca, community inside Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve. Two focus group X The information collected in the meetings in the focus groups in the community of community Santa Elena Santa Elena coincide with the with fishermen and information given in the interviews. hunters and in the Park guards had a slightly different community of Intuto with perspective. park guards. Investigate the X This successful test of a new proportion of habitat methodology enables far quicker occupied by otters using assessment of giant otter an ‘occupancy populations. While taking imperfect modelling’ method for detection into account giant otters and We can now use this method to Neotropical otters in the better determine the extent of the
1. Please indicate the level of achievement of the project’s original objectives and include any relevant comments on factors affecting this. Objective Not achieved Partially achieved Fully achieved Comments Examine human perceptions of aquatic predators in Loreto. Interviews in four communities outside Pucacuro National Reserve and in one community in River Napo. X A total of 224 interviews were undertaken. The species most commonly ranked first as competitors for fish and fish net damage were pink dolphins, followed by giant otter and Neotropical otter. Explore long-term changes in teenagers’ attitudes to giant otters after being exposed to environmental education about giant otters in 2009, visited San Martin de Tipishca, community inside Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve. X We highlighted a need to evaluate the success of environmental education programmes, properly target groups, and to consider the limitations of short-term ‘one-hit’ environmental education sessions. Two focus group meetings in the community Santa Elena with fishermen and hunters and in the community of Intuto with park guards. X The information collected in the focus groups in the community of Santa Elena coincide with the information given in the interviews. Park guards had a slightly different perspective. Investigate the proportion of habitat occupied by otters using an ‘occupancy modelling’ method for giant otters and Neotropical otters in the X This successful test of a new methodology enables far quicker assessment of giant otter populations. While taking imperfect detection into account We can now use this method to better determine the extent of the
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