Bushmeat harvest in tropical forests: Knowledge base, gaps and research priorities

Swamy, Varun; Pinedo-Vásquez, Miguel

doi:10.17528/cifor/005098

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“…Focusing on research related to wild meat in tropical forests, BRI has produced studies in ten African countries, five Latin American countries and one country in Asia. Global assessments of wild meat issues have been published (Swamy and Pinedo-Vasquez 2014), as well as regional assessments for West and Central Africa (Taylor et al 2015), the Amazon region (van Vliet et al 2015a, b) and Asia (Lee et al 2014;Lee et al 2020). BRI has also participated in assessments of wild meat extraction in African savannahs (Lindsey et al 2013(Lindsey et al , 2015.…”

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Nasi¹,

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Vliet³

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Section: Contributions To Science: Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Fa²,

Vliet³

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Is the knowledge about the wild birds influenced by the socioeconomic conditions of the human populations?

Santos¹,

Martins²,

Martins

2020

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The human populations of the Brazilian semiarid region interact strongly with the avifauna throughout the entire occupation of its territory. These interactions were established in a context of adverse edaphoclimatic conditions that limited crop production and socioeconomic welfare, making the uses of birds as food and income frequent excuses to label them as important subsistence resources. It is relevant to know whether such interactions today are still influenced by socioeconomic factors and in what way. Semistructured questionnaires were applied to 105 residents, 45 men and 60 women, in rural communities of Casa Nova, Bahia state. Correlation analysis and regression models were performed to verify how the socioeconomic variables 'gender', 'age', 'education', 'monthly income' and 'residence time' of respondents explain the variation in the number of known species and the acknowledgement of the ecological importance of the birds. There were 840 bird citations, corresponding to 60 species. A correlation between age, income, residence time in the region and the number of species mentioned arouse, but there was no correlation with the acknowledgement of the ecological importance of the species. Men cited significantly more bird species than women. The results also indicate a low level of knowledge about bird species among younger populations. Socioeconomic factors strongly influence people's knowledge of bird species in their region. Exposure to wild birds and experience with it, gender, education and income together influence the knowledge about the diversity of this group.

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Managing hunting under uncertainty: from one-off ecological indicators to resilience approaches in assessing the sustainability of bushmeat hunting

Vliet¹,

Fa²,

Nasi³

2015

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ABSTRACT. Despite the fact that sustainability of bushmeat hunting in tropical areas is of major concern for conservation and development practitioners, we still know very little about how to measure sustainability and how to put in place sustainable bushmeat hunting systems. We review the current limits of traditional methods used to investigate sustainability of bushmeat hunting, discuss the need to incorporate the characteristics of complex systems into sustainability assessments, and suggest how resilience theories could assist in understanding bushmeat sustainability and more effective conservation of wildlife in tropical areas. Traditional methods used to assess the sustainability of bushmeat hunting include demographic models of population growth, one-off biological indicators, population trend methods, harvest-based indicators, and comparisons of demographic parameters between sites. These traditional biological sustainability indices have proved inadequate for measuring the impact of bushmeat hunting because sustainability is treated as a static, binary (yes or no) question, thus ignoring stochastic processes, the inherent variability of natural systems, and the complexity of hunting systems. We suggest that bushmeat hunting systems in tropical areas should be regarded as social-ecological systems in which the impacts of hunting on prey populations are not the only focus. Instead, the analysis of resilience aims at understanding the complex and dynamic relationships between the hunting ground, its resources, the stakeholders, and the different exogenous drivers of change that affect the components of the system at different scales. The main implication of using the resilience theory in the context of bushmeat hunting is the shift from the need to assess stocks with imprecise measures to the incorporation of the uncertainty and stochasticity inherent to complex systems in participatory and adaptive management processes. As such, the resilience analysis provides an unprecedented opportunity for the sustainable use of bushmeat and allows the identification of strategies to strengthen resilience when the system is found to be close to a given threshold, instead of reinforcing fortress conservation.

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Bushmeat harvest in tropical forests: Knowledge base, gaps and research priorities

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Is the knowledge about the wild birds influenced by the socioeconomic conditions of the human populations?

Managing hunting under uncertainty: from one-off ecological indicators to resilience approaches in assessing the sustainability of bushmeat hunting

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