About this website — People, Culture & Conservation in West Africa: Studies of Multispecies Coexistence

This database was created in the scope of the post-doctoral fellowship of Dr Hannah E. Parathian (CRIA/04038/BPD/DASE) financed by FCT (UID/ANT/04038/2013).
Funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia I.P., in the scope of CRIA's strategic plan (UIDB/04038/2020).

Citation: Parathian, H. & Frazão-Moreira, A. (2022) People, Culture & Conservation in West Africa: Studies of Multispecies Coexistence. Online Database. CRIA (Centre for Research in Anthropology).

Authors: Dr. Hannah E. Parathian and Dr. Amélia Frazão-Moreira.
Graphic design: Sónia Mota Ribeiro.
Photographs: Amélia Frazão-Moreira, Hannah E. Parathian, Joana Bessa, Kimberley J. Hockings, Tânia Minhós.

Photos ruling presentation + photo nr. 3: Amélia Frazão-Moreira – Graffiti in Bafatá in Guinea-Bissau (“Project to support ICCAs - Valorisation of indigenous peoples’ and community conserved territories and areas in Guinea-Bissau”, Tiniguena, CRIA, INEP; Funding - PNUD-GEF-GNB/SGP/OP6/Y3/CORE/BD/18/2).

Photos 1, 2 and 4 to 9: captured during fieldwork as part of the project “Where humans and chimpanzees meet: assessing sympatry throughout Africa using a multi-tiered approach” (CRIA, Oxford Brookes University; Funding - PTDC/CS-ANT/121124/2010).

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