Animals and Human Health

Alves, Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega; Policarpo, Iamara da Silva

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-809913-1.00013-2

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“…The use of zootherapeutics related to by-products of hunting is widely disseminated in the tropics (Alves & Policarpo, 2018), with fat being the most used raw material for the treatment of various diseases (Ribeiro et al, 2007). According to Silva (2008), large mammals have a wide variety of medicinal properties: riverside communities use tapir and capybara fat for the treatment of respiratory diseases (e.g.…”

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Hunting in a community of waste pickers of recyclable materials in Rondônia, Brazil

Ramos

Santos

et al. 2020

RBCA

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hunting in a community of waste pickers of recyclable materials in Rondônia, Brazil

Ramos

Santos

et al. 2020

RBCA

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“…Due to our lack of knowledge of all species interactions, there has been opposition to using the keystone species concept as management tool (Mills et al, 1993). Despite controversy around using the keystone concept in conservation, it is imperative that we protect biodiversity and not overexploit vulnerable species that are commonly used in traditional medicine, such as tigers (Alves and Policarpo, 2018). Medicinal plants that zootherapy animals use for self-medication should also be protected.…”

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Beyond Pollination: Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) as Zootherapy Keystone Species

Easton‐Calabria¹,

Demary

Oner³

2019

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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The keystone species concept is a useful ecological concept to explain how some species exert a strong force on their community structure; this paper strives to expand the definition to include species that are used in zootherapy, i.e., the use of animals for medicinal purposes. Honey bees (Apis mellifera) can be considered a zootherapy keystone species that exerts a strong impact on other trophic levels through their products that relate to disease resistance. Honey bee products (i.e., honey, propolis, venom, beeswax, bee bread, and royal jelly) confer pathogen/pest resistance. Each of these products have been shown to exhibit antipathogenic properties and to act as a colony-level defense mechanism against disease. The phenomenon of a collective immune defense in social insects, termed social immunity, has evolved for defense against pathogens which spread easily in highly dense eusocial systems, such as that of honey bees. In apitherapy, a type of zootherapy, humans can use honey bee products to improve their health via pathogen resistance. The implication of these phenomena is that honey bees, through their products, can manipulate the microbial community structure both within the hive and outside the hive when these products are used in apitherapy. Because of their importance to human health, zootherapy keystone species should be a top priority in terms of conservation.

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“…Wildlife has numerous impacts on human health and well-being, for instance its contribution to traditional medicines around the world. There is also increasing recognition in medicinal circles that traditional ''zootherapy'' (the use of living animals for medical treatment/animal assisted therapy), or the use of animal-based remedies, may have wider implications for modern medicine (Alves and Policarpo 2018). However, here it should also be pointed out that the demand for wildlife-based medicinemany of which have unfounded or dubious medical benefits-also represents a major and direct threat for numerous species around the world (Nature 2019).…”

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How the loss of forest fauna undermines the achievement of the SDGs

Krause

Tilker

2021

Ambio

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The human-driven loss of biodiversity has numerous ecological, social, and economic impacts at the local and global levels, threatening important ecological functions and jeopardizing human well-being. In this perspective, we present an overview of how tropical defaunation—defined as the disappearance of fauna as a result of anthropogenic drivers such as hunting and habitat alteration in tropical forest ecosystems—is interlinked with four selected Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We discuss tropical defaunation related to nutrition and zero hunger (SDG 2), good health and well-being (SDG 3), climate action (SDG 13), and life on land (SDG 15). We propose a range of options on how to study defaunation in future research and how to address the ongoing tropical defaunation crisis, including but not limited to recent insights from policy, conservation management, and development practice.

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Animals and Human Health

Cited by 19 publications

References 159 publications

Hunting in a community of waste pickers of recyclable materials in Rondônia, Brazil

Hunting in a community of waste pickers of recyclable materials in Rondônia, Brazil

Beyond Pollination: Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) as Zootherapy Keystone Species

How the loss of forest fauna undermines the achievement of the SDGs

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