Knowledge, attitudes and practices of local people on Siberut Island (West-Sumatra, Indonesia) towards primate hunting and conservation

Quinten, Marcel C.; Stirling, Farquhar; Schwarze, Stefan; Dinata, Yoan; Hodges, Keith

doi:10.11609/jott.o3963.6389-98

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Section: The Mentawai Of the Siberut Island Off West Sumatramentioning

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“…More recently, Quinten et al [60] studied hunting of four endemic primates of Siberut Island by the Mentawai and examined the attitudes of indigenous inhabitants to resources utilization. Quinten et al [60] assessed the scale and impact of hunting of primate populations to determine if hunting could be sustainable. They concluded that present levels of hunting could be sustainable, but that when hunting combines with other forms of disturbance such as logging and habitat loss the outcome is likely to be unsustainable [60].…”

Section: The Mentawai Of the Siberut Island Off West Sumatramentioning

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“…Quinten et al [60] assessed the scale and impact of hunting of primate populations to determine if hunting could be sustainable. They concluded that present levels of hunting could be sustainable, but that when hunting combines with other forms of disturbance such as logging and habitat loss the outcome is likely to be unsustainable [60]. Mentawai has one of the world's highest levels of primate endemism [61] and is a critically important area for global primate conservation.…”

Section: The Mentawai Of the Siberut Island Off West Sumatramentioning

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“…The main threats to primates are habitat loss, land use change, and hunting. Logging, land clearance, and agricultural expansion driven by immigrants from other parts of Indonesia are leading to significant loss of intact forests across the Mentawai islands [60,62]. When I lived with the Mentawai in the 1990s, primate hunting and the consumption of primate meat were important parts of rituals and ceremonies associated with the belief system of the Mentawai people.…”

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Can Community Forests Be Compatible With Biodiversity Conservation in Indonesia?

Boedhihartono

2017

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Forest lands in Indonesia are classified as state lands and subject to management under agreements allocated by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. There has been a long-standing tension between the ministry and local communities who argue that they have traditionally managed large areas of forest and should be allowed to continue to do so. A series of recent legal and administrative decisions are now paving the way for the allocation of forests to local communities. There is a hypothesis that the communities will protect the forests against industrial conversion and that they will also conserve biodiversity. This hypothesis needs to be closely examined. Conservation of biodiversity and management for local benefits are two different and potentially conflicting objectives. This paper reviews examples of forests managed by local communities in Indonesia and concludes that there is very limited information available on the conservation of natural biodiversity in these forests. I conclude that more information is needed on the status of biodiversity in community managed forests. When forests are allocated for local management, special measures need to be in place to ensure that biodiversity values are monitored and maintained.

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Section: The Mentawai Of the Siberut Island Off West Sumatramentioning

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Section: The Mentawai Of the Siberut Island Off West Sumatramentioning

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Section: The Mentawai Of the Siberut Island Off West Sumatramentioning

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Section: The Mentawai Of the Siberut Island Off West Sumatramentioning

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Can Community Forests Be Compatible With Biodiversity Conservation in Indonesia?

Boedhihartono

2017

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“…Primates are among the most preferred game species of the people who inhabit the tropical forests of South America, Asia and Africa (Levi et al, 2011; Fa et al, 2013; Quinten et al, 2014; Borgerson, 2015; Constantino, 2015). However, little is known about the spatial patterns of primate hunting.…”

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Spatial patterns of primate hunting in riverine communities in Central Amazonia

Pereira¹,

Valsecchi²,

Queiroz³

2017

Oryx

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In many regions primates are an important dietary resource for isolated human populations, and they are among the most hunted species by traditional and indigenous communities in the Neotropics. Little is known about the characteristics or the spatial and temporal patterns of hunting, which limits a more detailed evaluation of its impact. We describe, quantify and analyse the spatial dynamics of primate hunting in the várzea (seasonally flooded forest) and paleovárzea (characterized by a series of low-lying ridges interspersed with flooded depressions, which result from cyclical depositional processes) environments of Central Amazonia, based on the monitoring of riverine communities at the Amanã and Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserves over an 11-year period. During this time 402 primate hunting events were recorded, involving the harvesting of 541 individuals of nine species: Alouatta juara, Aotus cf. vociferans, Ateles chamek, Cacajao ouakary, Callicebus lucifer, Cebus albifrons, Saguinus inustus, Saimiri cassiquiarensis and Sapajus macrocephalus. Two hundred and forty of these hunts occurred in the paleovárzea and 162 in the várzea. The distances travelled by the hunters from their communities to the kill sites were significantly different between the environments, with longer distances being covered in the paleovárzea. Hunters in the paleovárzea also hunted across significantly larger areas than those in the várzea. The continuous monitoring of hunting areas and the gathering of data on the exploitation of species are necessary to understand the effects of hunting, as well as to support decision making in the management of the local fauna by traditional communities, and the development of effective conservation strategies for the local game species.

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Utilizing local community knowledge of the Philippine tarsier in assessing the Bilar population endangerment risk, and implications for conservation

Wojciechowski

Kaszycka

Otadoy

2021

Journal for Nature Conservation

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Knowledge, attitudes and practices of local people on Siberut Island (West-Sumatra, Indonesia) towards primate hunting and conservation

Cited by 9 publications

References 10 publications

Can Community Forests Be Compatible With Biodiversity Conservation in Indonesia?

Can Community Forests Be Compatible With Biodiversity Conservation in Indonesia?

Spatial patterns of primate hunting in riverine communities in Central Amazonia

Utilizing local community knowledge of the Philippine tarsier in assessing the Bilar population endangerment risk, and implications for conservation

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