Wildlife trade and implications for law enforcement in Indonesia: a case study from North Sulawesi

Impacts of roads and linear clearings on tropical forests

“…species [40,[44][45][46]. Roads can also increase trade in bushmeat and wildlife products [17,18]; for example, on average, eight killed mammals were transported per hour along a single highway in Sulawesi, Indonesia [68]. Many formerly remote tropical regions such as the Amazon [65,69], Congo Basin [70], New Guinea [71] and Borneo [72] are now being assailed by expanding road networks, particularly from industrial timber operations and oil, gas and mineral projects [15,73].…”

Pangolins in peril: using local hunters’ knowledge to conserve elusive species in Vietnam

“…Khe Net) is likely to affect the quality of control of illegal activities. Fear of Forest Protection Department rangers was the most commonly cited explanation for the decrease in dog use by hunters around CPNP, indicating that the extent of hunting activity may be reduced by effective law enforcement presence, as it has elsewhere in Asia (SFNC 2003, Lee et al 2005, Corlett 2007). …”

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

“…In North Sulawesi, Indonesia 96,586 wild mammals were recorded during market surveys. Most were small-bodied rodents, which accounted for 43.9% of all encounters, followed by large bats (39.8%), small bats (7.5%), and Sulawesi pigs (7.3%) (Lee et al 2005). …”

“…Large game species are more vulnerable in tropical forests since these ecosystems are less productive overall than savannahs or grasslands (Bennett and Rao 2002). Most of the data and all of the synthetic analyses of bushmeat harvest come from Central and Western Africa or the Neotropics, especially the lowlands of Brazil and eastern Peru, although recent years have seen more systematic approaches to research elsewhere, such as in India (Velho et al 2010) and Indonesia (Lee et al 2005). It is estimated that 150,000 people in forest ecosystems of the Neotropics and 4.9 million people in the Afrotropics consume a total of about 5 million tons of wild mammal meat every year (Fa et al 2002), and more recent estimates suggest that the total is closer to 6 million tons (Nasi et al 2011).…”