„Tumbuna save“ – Surveyingknowledge traditional used ofknowledge traditional used of

plants in the Wanang community

Nigel BaroSalape TulaiSalape TulaiMarketa Aubrechtova

Wanang community 

• village with population ~200g p p• since 2000 part of Wanang Conservation Area• Kanghaki tokples• Kanghaki tokples

Main aimsMain aims

• Collecting knowledge of medicinal edibleCollecting knowledge of medicinal, edible, building material and cultural plants

• Statistical evaluation of influence of age• Statistical evaluation of influence of age, gender and education level on their knowledgeknowledge

MethodsMethods

• Creating list of used speciesCreating list of used species • Questioning people on usage of species

K h ki t k l d T k Pi i– Kanghaki tokples and Tok Pisin

• Identification of plant species• Statistical evaluation

MethodsMethods

• QuestionnaireQuestionnaire‐Personal information

• Name• Name• Age• GenderGender• Education level

‐Knowledge of species which part of plantsKnowledge of species, which part of plants,    type of uses

ResultsResults

‐ Total number of interviews ‐ 30Total number of interviews 30‐ Total collected medicinal plants ‐ 37

l ll d dibl l 38‐ Total collected edible plants ‐ 38‐ Total collected building material plants ‐ 27‐ Total collected ‘culture’ plants – 19

Medicinal plants

Edible plants

Building material

Cultural plants

ResultsUnivariate Tests of Significance for TotalTotal (Spreadsheet1)Si t i t d t i tiSigma-restricted parameterizationEffective hypothesis decomposition; Std. Error of Estimate: 18.99233

EffectSS Degr. of

FreedomMS F p

Interceptageeducation level

18545.81 1 18545.81 51.41493 0.0000006.78 1 6.78 0.01880 0.891996

5357.67 1 5357.67 14.85318 0.000683education levelgenderError

5357.67 1 5357.67 14.85318 0.000683159.45 1 159.45 0.44204 0.511993

9378.43 26 360.71

Scatterplot of TotalTotal against education levelSpreadsheet1 10v*30c

TotalTotal = 107.3173-5.7158*x; 0.95 Conf.Int.

110

120

130

80

90

100

otal

Tota

l

50

60

70To

-2 0 2 4 6 8 10

education level

30

40

education level:TotalTotal: y = 107.3173 - 5.7158*x; r = -0.6727, p = 0.00005; r2 = 0.4526

ResultsResults

• RDA

ResultsResults100%

70%

80%

90%

50%

60%

70%

secondary

both

20%

30%

40% primary

0%

10%

20%

di i l dibl b ildi l l llmedicinal edible building cultural all

ConclusionConclusion

• Age and gender don’t have significant effectAge and gender don t have significant effect• Education level is highly significant 

With h d ti d th f t 5 7– With each education grade, they forget 5,7 species of plants

Acknowledgment

ld lik h k i i h dWe would like to thank Kipiro, Kenneth and Billy for big help with plants identification and S f i iSuspa for statistics.

Thank  You for Your  attention