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The impact of hunting on tropical mammal and bird populations
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Quantifying hunting-induced defaunation: As the human population grows and increasingly encroaches on remaining wildlife habitat, hunting threatens many species. Benítez-López et al. conducted a large-scale meta-analysis of hunting trends and impacts across the tropics (see the Perspective by Brashares and Gaynor). Bird and mammal populations were considerably lower in areas where hunting occurred. Although commercial hunting and proximity to roads and urban centers were the most damaging factors, all hunting had worrying impacts, even in protected areas. Protection and alternative approaches for sustainable subsistence hunting must be implemented soon if we are to prevent further, rapid defaunation. Science , this issue p. 180 ; see also p. 136
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“…local climate (Spera et al., 2020), increases wild - fires (Alencar et al., 2015 ), and intensifies the effects of other pervasive but poorly mapped threats such as overhunting (Benítez-López et al., 2017 ; Peres, 2001 ) and human-wildlife conflicts (Buchholtz et al., 2020 ; Lima et al., 2019).”
BackgroundZanvo, S., Dognimon, S., Djagoun, C. A. M. S., Akpatchémè, J., Azihou, A. F., Djossa, B. A., Sogbohossou, E. A., & Sinsin, B. (2024) · Frontiers in Conservation Science · doi:10.3389/fcosc.2024.1481791 · Cited by 8
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Illegal trapping and local trade of farmland birds in Madhesh Province, Nepal
Katuwal, H. B., Sharma, H. P., Thakur, R. K., Rokka, P., Mandal, D. N., Baral, H. S., & Quan, R. (2023) · Global Ecology and Conservation · doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2023.e02391 · Cited by 8
Al-Razi, H., Campera, M., Hasan, S., Maria, M., Nijman, V., & Nekaris, K. A. I. (2023) · Ecologies · doi:10.3390/ecologies4010014 · Cited by 8
Hunting regulations as a conservation tool: Hunters' views on the European turtle-dove moratorium
Alba‐Patiño, D., Soliño, M., Arroyo, B., Martínez‐Jauregui, M., Glikman, J. A., Castro, A. A., & Delibes‐Mateos, M. (2024) · Biological Conservation · doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110654 · Cited by 8
Song, X., & Corlett, R. T. (2021) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2020.2352 · Cited by 8
“Hunting has eliminated larger seed dispersal agents frommany areas, resulting in reduced dispersal distances and higher seedling densities near to parent trees [63,74].”
BackgroundRetractedCan Socioeconomic Variables Influence Bird Hunting Activity in the Brazil's Semi-Arid Region?
Marques, A. K., Novato, T. D. S., Albuquerque, U. P., & Soldati, G. T. (2022) · Human Ecology · doi:10.1007/s10745-022-00330-8 · Cited by 11
A Cross-Site Analysis of Neotropical Bird Hunting Profiles
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“These taxonomic groups suffer from massive declines across the tropics with a modelled magnitude of 83% until 2050 (Benítez-López et al. 2017).”
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Modelling the niches of wild and domesticated Ungulate species using deep learningPreprint
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Southeast Asian biodiversity is a fifth lower in deforested versus intact forests
Botterill‐James, T., Yates, L. A., Buettel, J. C., Aandahl, Z., & Brook, B. W. (2024) · Environmental Research Letters · doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ad86ce · Cited by 7
“This biome is threatened by many human-mediated pressures, including hunting (Brodie et al 2015, Harrison et al 2016, Benitez-Lopez et al 2017, Osuri et al 2020), the wildlife trade (Symes et al 2018, Scheffers et al 2019, Morton et al 2021), and climate change (Barlow et al 2018).”
The need for carbon finance schemes to tackle overexploitation of tropical forest wildlife
Milson, C. E., Lim, J. Y., Ingram, D. J., & Edwards, D. P. (2024) · Conservation Biology · doi:10.1111/cobi.14406 · Cited by 8
Self-citationCan we count you: validating density estimation methods for unmarked wildlife with camera traps
Wiegers, J., Richard‐Hansen, C., Blok, J. E., van der Kuil, R., Gradoz, M., & van Kuijk, M. (2024) · Biodiversity and Conservation · doi:10.1007/s10531-024-02969-9 · Cited by 7
“Many forests worldwide are severely depleted of wildlife (Benítez-López et al. 2017), dramatically affecting their ecological integrity through the loss of functional seed dispersal and herbivory, and changes in predator–prey dynamics (Peres and Palacios 2007; Jorge et al. 2013).”
Liu, Q., Wei, Y., Liu, Y., & Liang, W. (2025) · Journal for Nature Conservation · doi:10.1016/j.jnc.2025.126824 · Cited by 7
Wu, W., Wang, Y., Xu, H., Liu, M., & Xue, C. (2025) · Agronomy · doi:10.3390/agronomy15051058 · Cited by 7
Importance of connectivity for carnivore richness and occupancy in fragmented biodiversity hotspots
Hurtado, C. M., Curveira‐Santos, G., García-Olaechea, Á., Appleton, R. D., Barros‐Diaz, C., Hermosilla, T., Lizcano, D. J., Salas, J. A., Balbuena, D., Vega, Z., et al. (2025) · Conservation Biology · doi:10.1111/cobi.70096 · Cited by 9
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Hunting, capture, and wildlife use by communities in a semi-arid region of Northeastern Brazil
Borges, A. K. M., Ribeiro, B. D. P., & Alves, R. R. N. (2021) · Human Dimensions of Wildlife · doi:10.1080/10871209.2021.2018738 · Cited by 7
“An assessment of the impact that hunting has on tropical animal populations has found that overexploitation through hunting is affecting bird and mammal populations across South America with their abundance being drastically reduced in hunting grounds (Benítez-López et al., 2017).”
BackgroundGeodiversity and Tourism Sustainability in the Anthropocene
Chakraborty, A. (2022) · Tourism and Hospitality · doi:10.3390/tourhosp3020031 · Cited by 7
“Moreover, aside from the number of species under threat, there is the ongoing simplification of ecosystems and intra-species mortality, termed as defaunation [9,77,78].”
BackgroundBirds and bats reduce herbivory damage in Papua New Guinean highland forests
Sivault, E., Koane, B., Chmurova, L., & Sam, K. (2024) · Ecology · doi:10.1002/ecy.4421 · Cited by 7
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Grazing Significantly Increases N2O Emission Rates in Alpine Meadows of the Tibetan Plateau
Li, W., Qingmin, X., Zhou, H., & Du, Y. (2022) · Frontiers in Environmental Science · doi:10.3389/fenvs.2022.920154 · Cited by 7
Foxes and goats: the outcome of free-ranging livestock farming in Brazilian dry forests
Pessoa, T. S. A., Alvarado, F., Arroyo‐Rodríguez, V., & Santos, B. A. (2022) · Biodiversity and Conservation · doi:10.1007/s10531-022-02520-8 · Cited by 7
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Threats to the populations of two endemic brushturkey species in Indonesian New Guinea
Pangau-Adam, M. Z., & Brodie, J. F. (2019) · Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity · doi:10.1016/j.japb.2019.07.005 · Cited by 7
Endemic birds in Papua New Guinea's montane forests: human use and conservation
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“Recent studies postulate that hunting is the main driver of species decline in tropical forests by comparison to habitat loss (Harrison et al. 2016, Benítez-López et al. 2017).”
BackgroundInfluentialAnticipating anthropogenic threats in acquiring new protected areas
Albers, H. J., Chang, C. H., Dissanayake, S. T. M., Helmstedt, K. J., Kroetz, K., Dilkina, B., Zapata-Morán, I., Nolte, C., Ochoa‐Ochoa, L. M., & Spencer, G. (2023) · Conservation Biology · doi:10.1111/cobi.14176 · Cited by 7
“Reflecting observations that high threat levels correspond to low species persistence (Benítez-López et al., 2017), each species in an unenforced protected area contributes a value of p ij to the total landscape expected value of conservation of that species, up to a maximum of 1 per species.”
BackgroundThe impact of human disturbances on the regeneration layer of tropical rainforests
Arasa‐Gisbert, R., Arroyo‐Rodríguez, V., & Meave, J. A. (2024) · Environmental Research Letters · doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ad95a0 · Cited by 8
“…rates of forest conversion among all biomes (Song et al 2018), and are being particularly affected by biological invasions (Moser et al 2018), high defaunation rates (Benítez-López et al 2017, 2019, Ferreiro-Arias et al 2024) and dev-astating wildfires (Mead et al 2018, Silveira et al 2022).”
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Do human–wildlife interactions predict offspring hiding strategies in peri-urban fallow deer?
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“Extractive interactions like hunting and fishing involve the removal of animals from the ecosystem, and the impacts of these activities have been extensively investigated [13,14].”
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Rapid defaunation of terrestrial mammals in a protected Neotropical cloud forest remnant
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Metadata
- Authors
- Benítez-López, A., Alkemade, R., Schipper, A. M., Ingram, D. J., Verweij, P. A., Eikelboom, J. A. J., & Huijbregts, M. A. J.
- Affiliations
- Department of Environmental Science, Institute for Wetland and Water Research, Radboud University, Post Office Box 9010, NL-6500 GL, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
- Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (NL)
- University of Sussex (GB)
- Utrecht University (NL)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2017-04-14
- Volume
- 356
- Issue
- 6334
- Pages
- 180-183
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2605583228
- Semantic Scholar
- 47a3f1d848466466f1761bd70a29fd3871091b5e
- Cited by
- 663
- References
- 123
- Citations by year
- 2026: 85 · 2025: 82 · 2024: 84 · 2023: 95 · 2022: 73 · 2021: 71 · 2020: 63 · 2019: 58 · 2018: 42 · 2017: 10
- FWCI
- 35.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- research.wur.nl
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (acceptedVersion)
- Sussex Research Online (University of Sussex) (submittedVersion)
- Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent) (submittedVersion)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- University of Sussex
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Keywords
- hunting, defaunation, tropical mammals, tropical birds, population decline (ecology), wild meat trade, hunting pressure, protected areas, commercial hunting, biodiversity loss, human accessibility
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Birds, Human Activities, Mammals, Population Density, Biodiversity, Extinction, Biological
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