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evidenced by the Women in Conservation Leadership Training pre-conference as part of the Human Dimensions of Wildlife annual conference in Kenya in 2020,and the new Maasai all-women ranger team in Kenya, Team Lioness (IFAW, 2021). Supporting such efforts, we argue that conservation practice must account for different ways of knowing and relating towildlife and their conservation, in- cluding across social categories within communities. This in- cludes different ways of communicating knowledge, such as through stories.Our research has begun to explore somewo- men’s knowledge about wildlife, and how that knowledge is shared. We have focused on stories as a format often over- looked by conservation researchers and practitioners, but vital for knowledge production, exchange and practice in many communities. Stories convey social norms and re- inforce human and human–animal relations. Conservation researchers and practitioners could learn from stories that circulate within communities and build on them for more sustainable and equitable conservation outcomes.
Acknowledgements Work in India was supported by a Fulbright– Nehru scholarship, the assistance of Nitin Rai and Siddappa Setty, and the field staff and community members at Biligiri Ranganathaswamy Temple Tiger Reserve. In Tanzania we thank the Commission for Science and Technology, and the villagers of Oltuka and Esilalei. We thank Angshuman Das for help with the map figures, and a seed grant from the University of Colorado Boulder Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences for supporting our work on gender and conservation.
Author contributions Study design, fieldwork: MJG, SWJ; data col- lection in India: LMG, SWJ, MJG; data collection in Tanzania: TMN, MJG; data analysis, writing: MJG, SWJ.
Conflicts of interest None.
Ethical standards This research abided by the Oryx guidelines on ethical standards, followed the standards of the Social Research Association, and adhered to ethical standards for research with human subjects. Research clearance for data collected in communities in Tanzania and India was obtained from the University of Colorado Boulder Institutional Review Board and confirmed with local author- ities in country.
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