Presented during the 17h Annual Sahelo-Saharan Interest Group Meeting organized by the NGO Sahara Conservation Fund in Senegal, from 4 to 6 May 2017. The Sahara Conservation Fund (SCF) gathers every year about a hundred people who are interested in the field of Sahelo-Saharan species conservation.

1. 17th Annual Sahelo-Saharan Interest Group Meeting
2 days of talks on biodiversity conservation in the Sahara and in the Sahel
Positive effects of direct experience with critically endangered Western
Derby elands within environmental education programmes in Senegal
Pavla HEJCMANOVA et al. – Conservation Biologist
May 4 – 6, 2017

2. BY AWARENESS TO
SPECIES SURVIVAL
AS EASY AS THAT ?
Marketa Grunova, Mathy Sane, Karolina
Brandlova, Pavla Hejcmanova

3. 19th CENTURY

4. TODAY

6. 3 PILLARS OF CONSERVATION
RESEARCHMANAGEMENTEDUCATION

7. 2008-2009

8. - knowledge raised (Grúňová et al. 2017)
-attitudes?

9. 2015-2017 WITH NEW
PERSPECTIVE

10. DISSERTATION
THESIS OF
MARKETA
GRUNOVA
MASTER THESIS OF
MATHY SANÉ

11. Knowledege Attitudes
Behaviour
X
“issue awareness does not lead to the change of
environmental behaviour” (Sia et al., 1985, 1986, Hines et al., 1987,
Hungerford and Volk, 1990)
11By awareness to species survival- WDE environmental education program
NOT DIRECTLY
IS ENVIRONMENTAL
EDUCATION LEGITIMATE?

12. 12
Direct experience
OUTDOOR EXCURSION

14. 14

15. RESULTS

16. „Derby eland? Hmmm“
0.5%
„Tiger, tiger“
34%

17. WDE CLASS
n=135
RESERVE
n=168
REFERENTIAL
n=40
LISTED
32% 57% 7%
RECOGNISED
46% (46% ) 57% (28%) 8%
POST-TEST
WDE awareness

18. „Derby eland, derby
eland!“ (40%)
„Tiger? Maybe not“
(19%)

19. PRE URBAN (n=193) RURAL (n=143)
WILD SENEGALESE 4.5 3.3
DOMESTIC 1.2 1.6
ALIEN 0.7 0.4
Name 10 Senegalese wild animals.

20. New Evironmental Paradigm (NEP)
scale
- items interpreted according to the religious perception
- need to be translated in local languages
- needs to be modified for specific Senegalese socio-cultural
background
- measures environmental attitudes
- developed and validated on „western nations“

21. EXCURSION GROUP
shift towards NO
I think that people from my village should be allowed to hunt in nature
reserves.
Score: 1= NO
5= YES

22. FUTURE

23. LES AMIS D´ELAND DE DERBY
(AMED)
-FOUNDED IN 2017
• d´agir en vue d’assurer la préservation, la
promotion et le développement de l’espèce
animale éland de derby (Taurotragus
derbianus derbianus) classée parmi les
espèces en voie de disparition ;
• de s’investir de manière concertée et
inclusive autour de l’idéal et des objectifs de
l’association ;
• d’initier, d’accompagner toute mesure et
action utiles à la mise en place et au
renforcement de programmes institutionnels
et organisationnels liés directement ou
indirectement à l’éland de derby et à son
environnement.

24. LES AMIS D´ELAND DE DERBY
INVOLVEMENT OF CHILDREN IN
NATURE PROTECTION INITIATIVES
INTERACTIVE METHODS
OUTDOOR TRIPS
ON SPOT EDUCATION FOR FUTURE

25. ON SPOT EDUCATION
- ALREADY CARRIED OUT BY PNNK
- COLLABORATION WITH
COMUNITIES
- NEED FOR MATERIAL (
PROJECTOR, BANNERS)
- IMPROVEMENTS OF METHODS?
- ESSENTIAL FOR FUTURE
CONSERVATION ACTIONS
PLANNED IN NIOKOLO KOBA
NATIONAL PARK

26. BY AWARENESS TO SPECIES
SURVIVAL
EASIER WITH JOINT FORCES
Research was supported by Czech Univestity of Life Sciences Prague, project CIGA 20175002

27. Contact us:
Western Derby eland research: hejcmanova@derbianus.cz
Education programmes: marketa.grunova@derbianus.cz