Vincent Malingui

• Community biocultural mapping reveals historical occupation and enables defense of African rainforests

  Open Access•Ibola Dja Bana Ba Massaha, Serge Ekazama Koto et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2026•References: 58

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  Global conservation maps often overlook community lands, impacting decision-making and reducing local agency. We focus on the high-profile and regionally important case of Massaha’s ancestral territory (Ibola Dja Bana Ba Massaha). In Gabon, the forest is largely gazetted into logging concessions and described as an Eden-like wilderness despite long-term human presence. We compare Massaha’s biocultural maps to global, colonial, and post-colonial m…

• Community biocultural mapping reveals historical occupation and enables defense of African rainforests

  Open Access•Ibola Dja Bana Ba Massaha, Serge Ekazama Koto et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2026•References: 58

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  Global conservation maps often overlook community lands, impacting decision-making and reducing local agency. We focus on the high-profile and regionally important case of Massaha’s ancestral territory (Ibola Dja Bana Ba Massaha). In Gabon, the forest is largely gazetted into logging concessions and described as an Eden-like wilderness despite long-term human presence. We compare Massaha’s biocultural maps to global, colonial, and post-colonial m…

Biodiversity (1 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (1 works) · Easement (1 works) · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond (1 works) · Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies (1 works) · Focus (optics (1 works) · Government (linguistics (1 works) · Logging (1 works) · Rainforest (1 works) · Wilderness (1 works)