Around the world, protected areas represent an essential tool in the efforts to conserve biodiversity. Yet their success requires the support of people living alongside them, including their compliance with protected area rules. But what factors influence people's support for protected areas? And their compliance with rules? And how do you measure these? These are some of the questions the Conservation and Human Behaviour (CONHUB) project and research
group based at Bangor University (UK), and led by Dr Freya St John, aimed to answer. Between 2019 and 2022 the project collected data to explore relationships between people and protected areas in two important conservation landscapes: The Leuser Ecosystem in Northern Sumatra and the Ruaha-Rungwa landscape in central-southern Tanzania. Here, key themes and findings from the research are presented as a series of comics.