Short Communication: Using wildlife for local livelihood – Experiences from the Bird’s Head Peninsula, West Papua, Indonesia

Apituley, John; Arobaya, Agustina Y.S.; Koibur, Johan F.

doi:10.13057/biodiv/d200708

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“…We have also found that increased connectivity via roads changes the orientation of local people using natural resources and forest products from subsistence towards market-based drivers. Thus in some parts of the Bird's Head Peninsula, selling wild meat (venison in this case), is an easy way to generate household income (Pattiselanno et al, 2019;2020).…”

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“…Motivations for hunting vary between sites (Pattiselanno et al, 2020;Pattiselanno et al, 2019;Pattiselanno & Koibur, 2018). In sites without road access, hunting is mostly conducted to obtain meat for family consumption, whereas hunting for trade is more common in sites with road access.…”

Section: The Link Between Roads and Indigenous Hunting In Tanah Papuamentioning

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“…However, road development has also created livelihood options and market-based livelihoods that are now increasingly common in the Bird's Head Peninsula (Pattiselanno et al, 2020). Deer meat (venison) was one of the key hunting products, as it provides a large amount of meat for both subsistence and sale (Pattiselanno and Koibur, 2018;Pattiselanno et al, 2019;2020).…”

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Road development and Indigenous hunting in Tanah Papua: Connecting the facts for future wildlife conservation agendas

Krockenberger

2021

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Road development is increasing worldwide. Generally, examples of road building in tropical countries demonstrate that road access can assist the fight against rural poverty, but such developments are also linked to deforestation, pollution, invasions of exotic species, and environmental degradation. For Papua and West Papua provinces (Tanah Papua) in Indonesia, the development of the provincial road network is intended to improve the rural economy, aiming to alleviate poverty within isolated rural areas. However, road development can pose particularly challenging problems to rural and Indigenous communities. Poorly planned roads can be devastating when they provide easy access to illegal hunting that threatens endangered species. In this study, we discuss how road development in Tanah Papua has changed indigenous hunting. Native Papuans have benefited from improved road access, which allows them to sell their agricultural products at local markets. Increased road connectivity has also changed how local people use natural resources and forest products, moving from subsistence to a more market-based orientation. Although policies on infrastructure development including roads form part of Indonesia’s national program, they are not automatically compatible with a sustainable development program in Tanah Papua. To foster more equitable and sustainable road development, government agencies must improve their overall coordination of further road expansion plans by promoting green infrastructure that supports the sustainable use of natural resources in a way that is reconciled with traditional knowledge of local people. Such efforts may also have positive effects on the efforts to protect biodiversity within the wider government conservation agendas.

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Road development and Indigenous hunting in Tanah Papua: Connecting the facts for future wildlife conservation agendas

Krockenberger

2021

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“…The wildlife trade can act as a valuable source of financial income for hunters, farmers, exporters, and vendors alike [ 33 , 34 , 35 ]. However, even if the intrinsic value of wildlife is discounted (i.e., the value that wildlife possesses in its own right, as opposed to the instrumental or “resource” value [ 36 ]), a painfully topical question is whether the income generated from the legal trade in wildlife (estimated to be worth billions of US dollars globally per year) offsets the full longer term economic costs of its operation.…”

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Trading Tactics: Time to Rethink the Global Trade in Wildlife

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The Covid-19 outbreak has brought about fresh and intensified scrutiny of the wildlife trade, which substantively involves commerce in exotic pets. In response, major policy decisions involving trade bans have ensued, with calls for similar such action to be applied across the trade chain. Yet, these measures have been criticised, largely based on concerns that they risk exacerbating poverty, undermining human rights, damaging conservation incentives, and otherwise harming sustainable development and conservation efforts. Instead, many critics propose improved regulation of the status quo, with the intention of nurturing a legal, sustainable, safe, humane, and equitable wildlife trade. Herein, we provide a countering view that outlines how the risks presented by the wildlife trade are becoming increasingly recognised as being both manifold and severe; and raise concerns that the goal of a well-regulated wildlife trade is becoming increasingly exposed as a mirage. We conclude that while pursuing the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (with their focus on poverty alleviation, food security, public health, and conservation) is enduringly vital, a flourishing wildlife trade is not. Given that the exploitation of wildlife, including for the pet trade, has been identified as one of the dominant drivers of biodiversity loss, emergence of zoonotic infectious disease, animal suffering, and financial instability, perpetuating the concept of utilising a regulated wildlife trade as the default approach to protect people and planet is in urgent need of re-evaluation.

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“…The area harbors biotic factors with high diversity of flora and fauna. However, only little has been published scientifically i.e., wildlife (Shaverdo et al 2016;Szczepański et al 2018;Kaiser et al 2019;Pattiselanno et al 2019) and vegetation (Heatubun 2002;Heatubun et al 2009Heatubun et al , 2013Maturbongs et al 2014Maturbongs et al , 2015Sillanpää et al 2017;Robiansyah 2018).…”

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Species diversity, composition, and heterospecific associations of trees in three altitudinal gradients in Bird's Head Peninsula, Papua, Indonesia

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Abstract. Fatem SM, Djitmau DA, Ungirwalu A, Wanma AO, Simbiak VI, Benu NMH, Tambing J, Murdjoko A. 2020. Species diversity, composition, and heterospecific associations of trees in three altitudinal gradients in Bird's Head Peninsula, Papua, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 21: 3596-3605. The region of Bird's Head Peninsula, West Papua, Indonesia has a high level of vegetation diversity distributed from coastal to mountain areas. Yet, the information regarding this diversity is limited. We studied species diversity, composition, and heterospecific association of trees in three altitudinal gradients in Bird's Head Peninsula to reveal the biotic phenomenon in the region. Systematic random sampling was applied during data collection in three locations representing lower, middle, and upper altitudes of natural tropical forest. We applied diversity indices to investigate taxonomic diversity, importance value index (IVI) to reveal floristic composition and canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) for heterospecific associations. In total, we recorded 30 families, 44 genera, and 66 species in the three locations. There were 20 families in lower area and each 15 families in middle and upper areas while the genera per site were 29 in lower, 20 in the middle, and 18 in the upper. The number of species found in lower, middle, and upper areas was 35 species, 24 species, and 27 species respectively. The research revealed that the taxonomic diversity of trees generally decreases as the elevation increases in terms of family, genera, and species level. The dominant species was also different across elevation gradients in which the dominant tree had a different pattern in the three locations between understory and upperstory. Moreover, the gradient of elevation has shaped the type of tree communities, suggesting interactions and associations among tree species. Of all species recorded, 26 species were listed in IUCN Red List with two species were under data deficient, 20 species were least concern, three species were near threatened, and one species was vulnerable.

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Short Communication: Using wildlife for local livelihood – Experiences from the Bird’s Head Peninsula, West Papua, Indonesia

Cited by 18 publications

References 42 publications

Road development and Indigenous hunting in Tanah Papua: Connecting the facts for future wildlife conservation agendas

Road development and Indigenous hunting in Tanah Papua: Connecting the facts for future wildlife conservation agendas

Trading Tactics: Time to Rethink the Global Trade in Wildlife

Species diversity, composition, and heterospecific associations of trees in three altitudinal gradients in Bird's Head Peninsula, Papua, Indonesia

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