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Hunting of mammal species in protected areas of the southern Bahian Atlantic Forest, Brazil Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp
To investigate the practice of hunting by local people in the southern Bahia region of Brazil and provide information to support the implementation of the National Action Plan for Conservation of the Central Atlantic Forest Mammals, we conducted 351 interviews with residents of three protected areas and a buffer zone. Thirty-seven percent of respondents stated that they had captured an animal opportunistically, 16% hunted actively and 47% did ...
Attitudes and Behaviors of Rural Residents Toward Different Motivations for Hunting and Deforestation in Protected Areas of the Northeastern Atlantic Forest, Brazil Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp
Protected areas have become a vital conservation strategy to protect wildlife; however, illegal activities performed by local people within and around protected areas may undermine their conservation goals. We used information from 169 direct interviews with rural residents in order to understand the factors affecting illegal behaviors related to hunting and deforestation in three protected areas and a buffer zone of the Southern Bahian Atlantic ...
Hunting and primate conservation Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp
Hunting for meat and profit threatens a very large number of primate species. This chapter presents evidence of the extent of hunting of wild animals, and primates in particular, across the tropical areas of the globe. We review studies investigating whether estimated extraction rates of mammal species across the tropics exceed the production levels for these taxa. In particular, data on primate extraction levels in Latin America, Africa, and ...
Bushmeat Hunting in Southeastern Cameroon Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp
Measuring hunting sustainability across West/Central African forests remains a challenge. Long-term assessment of trends is crucial. Via village-based offtake surveys we collected hunting data from three settlements near the Dja Biosphere Reserve (southeast Cameroon). Over a 13-year period (2003, 2009 and 2016) we collected data on carcasses brought to the three villages during March-June. We calculated the catch per unit effort (CPUE) and the ...
Hunting down monuments: The CAF model - Characteristics, Actors and Functions KU Leuven
The question What is a monument? invites a crisis of common sense in responding. Making sense of monuments is complicated by the variety of words that are used, often interchangeably, to describe them. Words such as ‘monument’, ‘memorial’, and ‘commemoration’ all share in their deep history a root in another equally complicated word: ‘memory’. Memory, of course, is as old as humankind. Historians study memory, as do neuroscientists, ...
Impacts of logging and hunting on western lowland gorilla ( Gorilla gorilla gorilla) populations and consequences for forest regeneration . A review Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp
Timber exploitation is rapidly expanding throughout the Congo Basin. Forest areas assigned to timber harvesting have sharply expanded over the decades and logging concessions now largely overlap with the range of western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla Savage Wyman, 1847). However this species, which is considered as critically endangered by IUCN, could play an essential role in maintaining the structure and composition of tropical ...