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    The Values of Sacred Swamps: Belief-Based Nature Conservation in a Secular World
    with Narasimha Hegde and Rafael Ziegler
    Environmental Values 29 (4): 443-459. 2020.
    Global forest loss is highest in the tropical region, an area with high biological biodiversity. As some of these forests are part of indigenous forest management, it is important to pay attention to such management, its values and practices for better conservation. This paper focuses on sacred freshwater swamp forests of the Western Ghats, India, and with it a faith-based approach to nature conservation. Drawing on fieldwork and focus groups, we present the rituals and rules that structure the …Read more