17. Defaunation, Not Deforestation: Commercial Logging and Market Hunting in Northern Congo

Challenges for forest conservation in Gabon, Central Africa

“…Logging, in particular, leads to a dramatic rise in commercial hunting, by providing hunters with greater access to unexploited wildlife populations and lowering the cost of transporting bushmeat to market [53,54]. The logging-company workers themselves are often avid hunters, with bushmeat sales providing up to 40% of their annual income [55]. Loggers also rely on wildlife for food; for example, employees at a single large logging camp in central Gabon consumed up to 80 tons of bushmeat per year [2].…”

“…[11,53]) and are slated to increase even further in the future. Selective logging has important impacts on tropical ecosystems and wildlife [15,17,26,28], but its most alarming effects are secondary; by creating labyrinths of roads and bulldozer tracks, logging greatly increases physical access to forests for hunters, miners, and farmers that can destroy or severely degrade forests [25,53,55].…”

Hutan pasca pemanenan: melindungi satwa liar dalam kegiatan hutan produksi di Kalimantan

“…Pencegahan ini dapat dilakukan dengan meruntuhkan jembatan, membongkar permukaan jalan, atau menutup jalan akses (sangat dianjurkan); • Untuk meminimalkan tindak korupsi dan memaksimalkan efisiensi, konsesi penebangan tidak boleh membayar/menggaji secara langsung petugas pemerintah yang bekerja di bidang hidupan liar. Pembayaran ini harus dilakukan melalui sistem yang mengharuskan perusahaan penebangan menyimpan dana yang proporsional terhadap luas daerah rencana tebangan pada tahun berjalan dan membayarkannya kepada departemen pemerintah yang bersangkutan (Wilkie et al 2001) (wajib/ perlu perubahan peraturan); • Penegakan peraturan serta mekanismenya harus dimasukkan ke dalam panduan (sangat dianjurkan). Karena Departemen Kehutanan dan pemerintah setempat mengawasi kegiatan penebangan dan pihak konsesi penebangan mengawasi keamanan, panduan ini harus merupakan kombinasi kegiatan yang sifatnya pengawasan melekat dengan uji petik oleh KSDA dan perwakilan pihak pemerintah yang telah ditetapkan.…”

Rapid land-use change and its impacts on tropical biodiversity

“…The loggers themselves are often avid hunters, with bushmeat sales providing up to 40% of their annual income [Wilkie et al, 2001]. Loggers also rely on wildlife for food; for instance, employees at individual logging camps in Malaysia [Bennett and Gumal, 2001] and Gabon [Laurance et al, in press, 2004] consumed 33 and 80 tons of wildlife meat per year, respectively.…”