Hunting of Wildlife in Tropical Forests : Implications for Biodiversity and Forest Peoples

The study addresses the importance of wildlife to people, and as a resource of nutritional, economic, and socio-cultural values, and examines the complexities of hunting in tropical forests. It also expresses that today, such hunting is rarely sustainable, because of declining forest areas, which decreases wildlife populations; because of changes among human populations in the tropical forests, who have increasingly become more sedentary; because of cultural changes, where social taboos against hunting certain species are breaking down, and systems of traditional hunting territories are disappearing; and, because environmental economic changes, prod the commercialization of wildlife hunting in these areas. The study explores the multifaceted, and complex problem of hunting, suggesting solutions must be area specific, based on detailed knowledge of hunting patterns, ecology, and local socio-cultural conditions. Recommendations include: establishment of national networks to manage protected, and extractive reserves areas, to supply subsistence needs to local hunting communities; establish land uses to support protected/extractive reserves areas in partnership with local communities; enact, comply, and enforce regulations to prevent exploitation by timber companies' workers; and, encourage participatory approaches among non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, and the international community at large.

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Main Authors: Bennett, Elizabeth L., Robinson, John G.
Format: Working Paper biblioteca
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2000-09
Subjects:WILDLIFE CONSERVATION, BIODIVERSITY PROTECTION, FOREST CONSERVATION, FOREST ECOLOGY, WILDLIFE RESOURCES, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, ANIMAL, ANIMAL PROTEIN, ANIMAL SPECIES, AREAS OF FOREST, BIODIVERSITY, BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION, BIODIVERSITY LOSS, BIOMASS PRODUCTION, BIRDS, BREEDING, BREEDING AREAS, CATS, CO-MANAGEMENT, CROPS, DEER, DIVERSITY, ECOSYSTEM, EGGS, EVOLUTION, EXTINCTION, FEATHERS, FISH, FOOD CHAIN, FOREST, FOREST AREAS, FOREST BIODIVERSITY, FOREST COMMUNITIES, FOREST COMPOSITION, FOREST CONCESSION, FOREST ECOSYSTEM, FOREST ECOSYSTEMS, FOREST LOGGING, FOREST MANAGEMENT, FOREST PRODUCT, FOREST SUSTAINABILITY, FOREST SYSTEMS, GAME, GAME ANIMALS, GUILDS, HABITAT, HUMAN ACTIVITIES, HUNTERS, HUNTING, HUNTING AREAS, LAND USE, LAND USE PLANNING, LIVESTOCK, MAMMALS, MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, MEAT, MEAT PRODUCTION, NATURAL RESOURCE, NATURAL RESOURCE USE, NUTRITIONAL VALUE, PARKS, PEST CONTROL, PESTS, PETS, PIG, PIGS, PLANT COMMUNITIES, PLANT PRODUCTION, PLANT SPECIES, PREDATION, PREDATORS, PRIMATES, PROTECTED AREAS, REPTILES, SPECIES, SPECIES DIVERSITY, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, TIMBER, TIMBER COMPANIES, TREES, TROPICAL FORESTS, VULNERABLE SPECIES, WILD ANIMALS, WILDERNESS, WILDLIFE, WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT, WILDLIFE POPULATIONS, WILDLIFE TRADE, CULTURAL RIGHTS, PEST CONTROL EQUIPMENT, BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS, POPULATION DENSITY, IMMIGRATION, PROTECTED AREAS AGRICULTURE,
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/09/1003157/hunting-wildlife-tropical-forests-implications-biodiversity-forest-peoples
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18297
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