Conservation Communication and Local Governance of Xenconservation: A Peatland in Jimenez, Misamis Occidental, Philippines

Abstract

This study focuses on XenConservation's revelatory conservation communication in local governance, a small matrix of lowland freshwater mangrove wetland situated in Jimenez, Misamis Occidental, southern island of Mindanao, Philippines. A qualitative exploratory single case study in criterion-i purposeful sampling was employed to examine the nature of the conservation communication of the locale. The study revealed a transformative conservation communication in local governance continuum of care in private type governance alongside protected areas (PAs): convergent care, ancillary care, and diversified care, in a gradation of polarities within conservation communication in its conservation actions. In conclusion, the study theorizes in a constructivist and transformative worldview as a hobbyist in the in- situ conservation of threatened species. Tacit minority practice of affordances in a conservation communication's ancillary view of convergent-ancillary-diversified continuum of care encompasses a criterion-i conservation communication. Hence, a better protection policy and improved governance management for seasonal wetland and peatland of local conservation sites' agro-biodiversity and tree count status need to be strengthened.