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Annexure 10: A Questionnaires to Evaluate the Religious
Affinity of the Stakeholders
1. What is your name and profession?
2. How many years you are in the present profession?
3. How mangroves benefit your life and survival?
4. Why do you go the forests with or without permissions?
5. How often you face the accidents/wild animals while intruding inside the deep
forests?
6. Do you disclose or record the accidents you face in the forests to local
administration?
7. Which God/Goddess you worship while going in the forest?
8. Do you believe that blessings/curse of God/Goddess determines your fate in the
forest or your survival?
9. Do you have any guilty feelings while procuring forest resources?
10. Can you grade the God/Goddess in context to your safety? Score ranges from 1
to 5; 1 means least safety and 5 means maximum safety.
11. If you face any attack from wild lives like tiger/crocodile etc. do you feel that
Bonobibi is angry with you?
Fig. 10.18 Responses of local inhabitant (Respondent Type 5) in terms of Mangrove God
Devotion Scale (MGDS) towards Gods/Goddesses
Table 10.2 ANOVA results showing variations between preferences for God/Goddess and
respondent’s views on cultural ecosystem services of mangroves
Source of Variation
SS
df
MS
F obs
P-value
F crit
Between God/Goddess 25025.66 4
6256.415 4.544846 0.012118 3.006917
Between Respondents
310.9304 4
77.7326
0.056467 0.993463 3.006917
Error
22025.53 16 1376.596
10 Mangroves: A Natural Ecosystem of Cultural and Religious Convergence