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Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins
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Protein from forest wildlife is crucial to rural food security and livelihoods across the tropics. The harvest of animals such as tapir, duikers, deer, pigs, peccaries, primates and larger rodents, birds and reptiles provides benefits to local people worth millions of US$ annually and represents around 6 million tonnes of animals extracted yearly. Vulnerability to hunting varies, with some species sustaining populations in heavily hunted secondary habitats, while others require intact forests with minimal harvesting to maintain healthy populations. Some species or groups have been characterized as ecosystem engineers and ecological keystone species. They affect plant distribution and structure ecosystems, through seed dispersal and predation, grazing, browsing, rooting and other mechanisms. Global attention has been drawn to their loss through debates regarding bushmeat, the "empty forest" syndrome and their ecological importance. However, information on the harvest remains fragmentary, along with understanding of ecological, socioeconomic and cultural dimensions. Here we assess the consequences, both for ecosystems and local livelihoods, of the loss of these species in the Amazon and Congo basins.
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This synthesis reviews bushmeat harvest in the Congo and Amazon Basins, estimating roughly 6 million tonnes of wildlife extracted annually and contrasting ecological impacts with rural and urban livelihood dependence. It argues that sustainable harvest, rather than outright bans, is needed, with different policy contexts in the two basins.
Key findings
- Updated 2010 estimates put annual extraction at 1,299,000 tonnes in the Amazon and 4,569,000 tonnes in the Congo Basin; consumption was 909,000 tonnes/year in the Amazon and 3,198,000 tonnes/year in the Congo Basin, including 289,000 tonnes/year urban in the Congo.
- Hunting lowers wildlife densities in hunted versus un-hunted forests: Table 2 reports declines of 80.8% across 23 Amazonian sites in Brazil, 43.0–100% at Makokou, Gabon, 42.1% and 12.9% in Ituri, DRC, and 43.9% in Mossapoula, CAR. Large-bodied, slow-reproducing species such as apes, large primates, carnivores, tapirs, buffaloes and elephants are most vulnerable; hunting is cited as a major cause of a reported 50% decline in apes in Gabon within two decades.
- Some resilient species persist or increase under hunting, and hunted taxa include keystone species and ecosystem engineers whose loss can disrupt seed dispersal, predation, plant regeneration and forest structure, creating “empty forests.”
- Bushmeat remains central to livelihoods: rural Amazonian consumption averaged 63 ± 25 kg/capita/year (range 10–190, n = 14), while Congo Basin urban consumption is significant (e.g., 4.7 kg/person/year average across Gabon, DRC and CAR; 7.2 in Libreville; 14.6 in Bangui). Reported trade volumes include 840–1,080 tonnes/year in Yaoundé markets, about 9,500 tonnes/year in Bangui, and an estimated 270 tonnes/year passing through a single European airport.
Methods
- Synthesis/review drawing on published and unpublished studies, market data and tables to compare ecological and livelihood dimensions of bushmeat use in the Amazon and Congo Basins.
- Updated 2010 consumption and extraction estimates were calculated using consumption data gathered in the work (Table 3) and updated population figures, assuming a 0.7 meat/live animal ratio.
- No new primary field sampling is reported; the analysis is descriptive and comparative across sites and basins.
Limitations
- Stated: information on the bushmeat harvest remains fragmentary; studies are often limited to single sites with multiple research approaches, limiting comparisons, and results are frequently disseminated in unpublished or inaccessible reports.
- Stated: urban bushmeat consumption data are especially scarce for the Amazon; Congo Basin population data are “notoriously unreliable” and consumption patterns very variable, so the authors caution against concluding that consumption has increased in the Amazon or stabilized in the Congo from their updated estimates.
- Evident: the synthesis relies on secondary sources and tables with missing or inconsistent data, and the paper notes that very little is known for most Central African hunted species and that four of about 30 commonly hunted Amazonian species are IUCN data deficient.
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“This should however be qualified by the fact that where overhunting has occurred over long periods, larger and more vulnerable species (often endangered) have already disappeared with smaller, generally nonthreatened species, becoming prevalent in the harvest (Altrichter 2006, Bennett and Robinson 2000, Cowlishaw et al. 2005, Stearman 2000).”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Altrichter 2006 source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Bennett and Robinson 2000 source
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The Abstract and Discussion report that historical overhunting depleted vulnerable species in the Takoradi market, leaving robust taxa such as rodents and small antelope in the harvest. The Policy Implications section cautions that the authors could not establish whether species absent from the market were locally extinct. The paper also does not establish that the depleted species were often endangered or that the remaining species were generally nonthreatened. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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“increasing certification and forcing logging companies to halt hunting and export of bushmeat from their concessions would do much to reduce urban consumption”
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- Could not verifycites Nasi et al. 2011 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
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“In Yaoundé, Edderai and Dame (2006) identified 15 markets and 145 restaurants and cafeterias selling bushmeat and providing an occupation for 249 people, of whom 84.3% are women.”
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The paper’s Abstract states that the authors inventoried bushmeat sales points in Yaoundé and located 15 markets and 145 restaurants and cafeterias. It also reports that the trade provided an occupation for 249 people, 84.3% of whom were women. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“In Yaoundé, Edderai and Dame (2006) identified 15 markets and 145 restaurants and cafeterias selling bushmeat and providing an occupation for 249 people, of whom 84.3% are women.”
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The Abstract states that the census identified 15 markets and 145 restaurants and cafeterias selling bushmeat in Yaoundé. It also states that this trade provided an occupation for 249 people, 84.3% of whom were women. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“We have been unable however to find evidence that these taboos play a significant role in regulating harvests.”
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“Even where bushmeat is used to satisfy basic subsistence requirements, many families also hunt wild game for sale to meet short term cash needs (Table 5).”
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“Average extraction rates calculated for African forest mammals within each Red List category indicate that non-threatened species have the highest extraction rates.”
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“On the other hand, despite long and continuous sustained heavy harvesting, some bushmeat species continue to thrive in natural and modified habitats.”
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“When wild fish is available it can outweigh the importance of bushmeat in the diet of forest dwellers (Rushton et al. 2005 in Peru or Wilkie et al. 2005 in Gabon).”
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“Overall, people who depend on wild protein will substitute wild fish and wild meat for one another, depending on the price and availability of each.”
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“In both basins medium-sized species between 2 and 50 kg are the most frequently hunted, though hunters will not shy from killing larger taxa when encountered (e.g., tapirs, wild pigs, forest buffalo, large antelopes, great apes).”
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“Hunting is the major cause for a reported 50% decline in apes in Gabon within two decades (Walsh et al. 2003).”
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“Plant regeneration (affected by pollinators, seed dispersers and predators) and plant diversity (affected by a change in herbivory patterns or pest increase) are often dependent upon the presence of specific species or groups of species (Beck 2006, 2008, Keuroghlian and Eaton 2009, Nuñez Iturri and Howe 2007, Terborgh et al. 2008, Vanthomme et al. 2010, Wright et al. 2007b).”
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“Not all species respond equally to hunting pressure.”
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“or essentially perceived as a 'lower cost' protein as it can be captured rather than purchased (Kümpel 2006a).”
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- Not matchedcites Kümpel 2006a
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“As South America has some of the most important livestock production systems (beef, pork and poultry) in the world the authors suggest that bushmeat is likely to be slowly replaced by domestic sources of protein:”
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- Rests on an assumption: When non-indigenous people become richer, they generally turn to alternative sources of protein.
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“Irrespective of the region, larger-bodied longer-lived species with low intrinsic rates of population increase, such as apes, other large primates, carnivores and antelopes as well as tapirs, buffaloes or elephants are less resistant to intensive hunting than species with high intrinsic rates of population increase such as rodents or small-to medium-sized ungulates (Robinson and Redford 1991).”
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- Not matchedcites Robinson and Redford 1991
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“Hunting (like other human extractive activities in tropical forests) is, depending on the scale, a disruptive process.”
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“The consumption of fish and/or bushmeat seems to be closely linked to both availability and/or price of substitutes.”
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“Similarly in the Amazon Basin, various key bushmeat species have significant importance within native culture.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Donkin 1985 source
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“Local extinction of these predators can trigger major changes in prey populations, which in turn can dramatically alter browsing or grazing by herbivorous species to the point where large regime shifts or ecosystem collapse happen.”
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“In both basins a wide variety of taxa are hunted for food.”
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“This means that a decline in one wild resource tends to drive up unsustainable exploitation of the other (Brashares et al. 2004).”
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“in Bangui (CAR) at 14.6 kg/person/year (Fargeot and Dieval 2000),”
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“This is highly suggestive of density compensation (Peres and Dolman 2000) processes where the abundance of resilient species rises if their more vulnerable competitors for resources (space, food, etc.) are removed.”
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“The majority of mammal species (70%) hunted in the Congo Basin is not listed as threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.”
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“In the Congo Basin the situation is totally different and urban bushmeat consumption is significant.”
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“There is ample and diverse evidence (see Nasi et al. 2008 for a review) that the scale of current hunting is a serious threat to many forest species and ecosystems in the Amazon and Congo Basin, the two largest and least populated dense forest areas of the world.”
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“In Gabon alone, 114 species have been recorded in hunter catches, household consumption and markets (Abernethy and Ndong Obiang 2010).”
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“Although urban bushmeat consumption per capita appears significantly lower than in rural areas according to most available studies,”
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“Given the very significant urban and rural consumption and the either inexistent (e.g.Gabon, DRC, Congo) or pretty limited (Cameroon, CAR) domestic livestock sector, bushmeat remains a crucial component of food security for the Congo Basin.”
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“The disappearance, or even extreme reduction, of populations of 'keystone species', 'ecosystem engineers', or other species or groups of importance in ecological communities is expected to have a disproportionate impact on the ecosystem compared to the loss of other species (Campos-Arceiz and Blake 2011, Fragoso 1997, Keuroghlian andEaton 2009).”
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“In such context, bushmeat consumption level can vary according to variations in prices of alternative foods, such as fish (Wilkie et al. 2005).”
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“Taboos on certain foods are widespread in parts of Central Africa (Okouyi 2006, van Vliet and Mbazza in press).”
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“By contrast, in large cities of Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Cameroon, bushmeat is more of a luxury product.”
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- Not matchedcites Kümpel et al. 2007
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“Chardonnet et al. (1995) report that urban populations in Gabon, DRC and CAR consumed on average 4.7 kg/person/year;”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > BUSHMEAT IN LOCAL PEOPLE'S LIVELIHOODS
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“As a result, governments and other stakeholders have limited objective information at national and regional levels to inform and support policy or management decisions.”
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“and this 'safety net' is often more important for the more vulnerable members of a community (Allebone-Webb 2009, de Merode et al. 2004).”
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“In areas where larger species have been significantly depressed, the abundance of small and medium-sized species can remain unaffected or even increase.”
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“Although preferred for its taste, it is less frequently consumed than frozen mackerel, chicken or pork due to their lower cost (Kümpel et al. 2007, Abernethy and Ndong Obiang 2010).”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > Reasons behind the consumption of bushmeat
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“For hunters, the distinction between subsistence and commercial use is often blurred, with meat from the forest supplementing both diets and incomes (e.g.Bodmer and Lozano 2001, Bodmer et al. 2004, Kümpel et al. 2010b, 2010c).”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > Local trade
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- Not matchedcites Bodmer and Lozano 2001
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“Though the income elasticity of demand for bushmeat is still poorly understood, it seems that bushmeat in South America stops being an economic necessity as household income increases.”
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“consumption in Libreville (Gabon) is estimated at 7.2 kg/person/year (Wilkie et al. 2005),”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > BUSHMEAT IN LOCAL PEOPLE'S LIVELIHOODS
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“Elephants (Campos-Arceiz and Blake 2011), but also ungulates such as tapirs and peccaries (Beck 2006, Fragoso 1997, Keuroghlian and Eaton 2009), can play major roles in modifying vegetation structure, composition and dynamic through their feeding habits and movements in the forest.”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > Impacts on ecosystems
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“Eating bushmeat is therefore a matter of survival with few if any alternatives.”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > Reasons behind the consumption of bushmeat
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- Rests on an assumption: In remote forest areas of Central Africa and the Amazon basin, bushmeat is often the main source of animal protein available and plays an essential role in people's diets, especially where livestock husbandry is not feasible and wild fish not available.
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“In Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Bangui, Central African Republic (CAR), bushmeat is cheaper than many other alternative sources of protein (Fargeot 2010, van Vliet et al. in press)”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > Reasons behind the consumption of bushmeat
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“As a result a common trend is to see the density of large bodied species increasing with distance from hunter settlements.”
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“None of these alone appear to be able to solve the so-called”
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“However, since much bushmeat is also sold through informal channels such as from rural hunters directly to urban consumers, established bushmeat markets channel only a portion (probably 50-60%) of the total urban consumption (Bahuchet and Ioveva 1999, Starkey 2004, Trefon and de Maret 1999).”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > Local trade
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- Not matchedcites Bahuchet and Ioveva 1999
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“An inventory in 1995-96 of the four main markets in the Cameroon capital, Yaoundé, estimated sales of 840-1 080 tons of bushmeat per year (Bahuchet and Ioveva 1999).”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > Local trade
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“In some cases it tends to be relied on more by community members who practice seasonal migrant labour (e.g., to participate in agribusiness harvests), and hence have less time to plant family gardens or for livestock husbandry (Noss 1999, Noss andCuellar 2001).”
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“If bushmeat consumption in the Congo Basin was to be replaced by locally produced beef, an area as large as 25 million hectares might have to be converted to pastures.”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > CONCLUSION: EMPTY FORESTS AND EMPTY STOMACHS?
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“In South America, for small holders it buffers domestic livestock such as goats and cattle, key economic reserves that can be easily converted into cash for poor country dwellers (Altrichter 2006).”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > Local trade
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“Thus, high harvesting pressure should not always be equated with local extinction.”
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“As comparison, the Brazilian beef production (8.6 million tonnes in 2005foot_0 ) is considered responsible of about 50 million ha of deforestation.”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > CONCLUSION: EMPTY FORESTS AND EMPTY STOMACHS?
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“On average per capita urban consumption across the region appears an order of magnitude smaller than rural consumption but while per capita urban consumption of bushmeat is lower than per capita rural consumption, aggregate urban consumption is usually higher than aggregate rural consumption due to the size of the urban population (Chardonnet et al.1995, Starkey 2004).”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > Local trade
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“A recent study at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport, in France, researchers identified eleven bushmeat species from confiscated luggage, including primates, crocodiles and pangolins and estimated that around 270 tonnes of bushmeat passing unchecked through a single European airport per year (Chaber et al. 2010)”
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“On average per capita urban consumption across the region appears an order of magnitude smaller than rural consumption but while per capita urban consumption of bushmeat is lower than per capita rural consumption, aggregate urban consumption is usually higher than aggregate rural consumption due to the size of the urban population (Chardonnet et al.1995, Starkey 2004).”
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“Fargeot and Dieval (2000) estimate annual consumption in Bangui, Central African Republic, to be of the order of 9 500 tons per year.”
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“Bodmer et al. (2004) estimated the number of animals hunted annually in the Peruvian Amazon (Loreto region) as above 110 000 but how much of this catch is sold through open-markets is almost impossible to estimate.”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > Local trade
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“A recent study at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport, in France, researchers identified eleven bushmeat species from confiscated luggage, including primates, crocodiles and pangolins and estimated that around 270 tonnes of bushmeat passing unchecked through a single European airport per year (Chaber et al. 2010)”
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“With urbanization, wealth, and the availability of other meat sources, bushmeat harvest is likely to decline sharply in the future.”
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“In the Congo Basin, bushmeat trade occurs in established markets together with the commercialisation of other agricultural products.”
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“Bushmeat can also be differentially important during times of stress for local people, such as when crops fail.”
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“Achieving sustainable harvest of bushmeat is therefore a necessity and by far, the best available option compatible with biodiversity conservation, local livelihoods, food security and food self sufficiency.”
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“Commercial trade is probably the primary driver of the increasing levels of bushmeat off take in the Congo Basin (Bennett et al. 2007, Davies 2002).”
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“The level of dependency on bushmeat is however different in both basins:”
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“With an estimated yearly extraction rate in the Congo Basin of 4.5 million tonnes, we would need to transform large areas of tropical forests or savannas into pasture to replace bushmeat by cattle.”
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“This success was possible in Sarawak because the commercial wildlife trade mainly supplies a luxury, urban market with plenty of alternative protein sources available.”
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“The Central African Republic, Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo were identified as the main sources of bushmeat.”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > International trade
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“As the rural non-indigenous or pioneer population becomes wealthier it looks more towards alternative protein sources (livestock, poultry).”
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“In the Congo Basin, increasing population and trade from rural to urban areas compounded with the lack of any sizeable domestic meat sector are the main drivers of unsustainable levels of hunting.”
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“Many vulnerable species such as elephants, tapirs and great apes, although not representing high percentages in the hunter's catch, have declined or become locally depleted due to hunting.”
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“The most resilient species are often able to adapt to hunting pressure, either by modifying their biological parameters and their ecology or by taking the niches left empty by the most vulnerable species.”
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“Brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus africanus), pouched rat (Cricetomys eminii), blue (Cephalophus monticola) and red duikers (other Cephalophus spp.), represent the majority of the catch in the Congo Basin with blue duikers alone accounting often for about a third of the harvest (Kümpel 2006a, van Vliet 2008).”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > Composition of the catch
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In “Assessing hunting impact” (page unavailable), blue duiker accounts for 37.5% of recorded offtakes in Ntsieté, supporting the approximate one-third figure for that village. The paper does not establish that this proportion is common across the Congo Basin, or that the four named animals together make up most catches there; it instead identifies small diurnal monkeys and red river hog among Ntsieté’s other most-hunted species. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“For example, in Gabon, the small Blue duiker is significantly less abundant in remote forests within the boundaries of the Ivindo National Park than in hunted areas with similar vegetation cover close to the town of Makokou, while the larger Peter's (Cephalophus callipygus) and Bay duiker (C.dorsalis) are less abundant or even depleted (van Vliet 2008, van Vliet et al. 2007).”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > Impacts on hunted populations
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“Rifles and shotguns are typically used for larger animals and arboreal species (Coad 2007, Kümpel 2006a, van Vliet 2008)”
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The Discussion says gun hunting increased opportunities to hunt larger animals and arboreal animals, including small diurnal monkeys. It does not identify rifles or shotguns specifically, so that detail is not supported by this source. (LLM, conf=0.83)
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“Steel leg hold traps have been used extensively to hunt furbearers such as ocelots and jaguars (Swank and Teer 1989).”
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The 'Causes of population decline' section says trapping jaguars was common in ranching country and that traps were supplied for the jaguar-pelt trade. It does not identify those traps as steel leg-hold traps or say they were used to hunt ocelots. It also says commercial trapping of jaguars had declined dramatically since the 1970s. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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“as much of the commercial bushmeat that is consumed in urban households comes from logging concessions that represent the single largest landuse in the Congo Basin”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > CONCLUSION: EMPTY FORESTS AND EMPTY STOMACHS?
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The paper description (no section or page given) calls industrial logging concessions the Congo Basin’s “most extant production system,” supporting their prominence but not explicitly establishing them as the single largest land use. The available passages do not say that much of the commercial bushmeat consumed by urban households comes from those concessions; searches for bushmeat, urban households, and the land-use claim found no further passage. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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“We can reasonably estimate that our figures are of the right order of magnitude and that annually 6 million tonnes of wildlife in the two basins.”
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“Mammals make up the bulk of the catches both in number and biomass terms, with ungulates and rodents representing more than two thirds of the carcasses sold in urban markets or recorded from hunter off takes in both Congo and Amazon Basin (Table 1).”
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“Empirical studies in both basins show that population densities are lower in hunted versus un-hunted areas, implying a potential decline in stocks (Table 2).”
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“Our estimates for the Amazon Basin are ten times higher than Fa et al. 2002 and similar for the Congo Basin.”
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“Congo 2 | 1 612 000 | 57 046 | 41 199 | 2 909 000 | 289 000 | 3 198 000 | 4 569 000”
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“Amazon 1 | 3 938 000 | 14 425 | 24 352 | 909 000 | Negligible | 909 000 | 1 299 000”
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“As it is expected in hunted areas, the abundance and composition of mammal assemblages differ from un-hunted areas.”
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“Similarly, in the Amazon Basin, large rodents (Dasyprocta spp.and Cunniculus paca) and medium-sized ungulates such as brocket deer (Mazama spp.) and peccaries (Tayassu pecari and Pecari tajacu.12-45 kg) typically make up the bulk of the harvest, although the hunting of a few tapir (ca.200 kg) can be very important in biomass terms (Bodmer and Lozano 2001, Bodmer et al. 2004, Ojasti 2000, Peres 200”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > Composition of the catch
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“Many depend on wildlife resources as a buffer to see them through times of hardship (e.g.unemployment, illness of relatives, crop failure), or to gain additional income for special needs (e.g.school fees, festivals, funerals) (Fa and Brown 2009)”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > Local trade
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“Analysis of taste choices in Gabon indicated that consumers differentiate amongst bushmeat species and that wildlife cannot be treated as a generic food source (Knights 2008, Schenck et al. 2006).”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > Reasons behind the consumption of bushmeat
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“Fa et al. (2002) estimates for the Amazon were very low, equating to a consumption of 35 g/capita/day, largely below any published data (even contradicting their own data).”
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“the contribution of urban areas to the overall bushmeat consumption is high and likely to become higher as the population of Central African countries becomes more urbanised.”
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“A relatively low percentage of the population consumes bushmeat (mostly indigenous and the smaller rural communities).”
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“Vulnerability to hunting varies, with some species sustaining populations in heavily hunted secondary habitats, while others require intact forests with minimal harvesting to maintain healthy populations.”
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“Top predators (e.g.large cats, raptors, crocodiles) impact biodiversity by providing resources that would otherwise be scarcely available to other species (e.g.carrion) or by initiating trophic cascades (Sergio et al. 2008, Terborgh 2010).”
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“Hunting in high forest with snares and traps appears more frequent in the Congo Basin, but in both basins “garden hunting” is common using traps for relatively small game (mainly rodents) to protect farming plots (Naughton-Treves et al. 2003, Smith 2005).”
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“In two seminal pieces using data from the end of the 1990's, Fa and Peres (2001) and Fa et al. 2002, concluded that “over 5 million tons of meat feed millions in Neotropical (0.15 million tons) forests and Afrotropical (4.9 million tons) forests annually”.”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > INTRODUCTION
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“The loss of wildlife from forest ecosystems can lead to the disruption of ecological and evolutionary processes, changes in species composition within ecosystems and probably a general reduction in biological diversity (Emmons 1989, Redford 1992) creating”
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“Local extirpation of hunted species is widespread, with West and Central Africa particularly hard hit (Milner-Gulland et al. 2003).”
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“In Gabon, bushmeat is associated with the village, with rituals and with ceremonies, such as men's circumcision ceremonies (Angoué et al. 2000, van Vliet andNasi 2008).”
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“Source-sink effects (Novaro et al. 2000, Salas andKim 2002), spatial heterogeneity (Kümpel et al. 2010a, van Vliet et al. 2010a) or high dispersal (Hart 2000a) can also help maintain populations in hunted areas, masking or compensating for hunting driven population decline.”
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“It can and does trigger numerous indirect effects, which in turn alter both (i) the hunted populations and (ii) the functioning, structure and composition of the ecosystem (Nasi et al. 2010).”
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“Tapirs, peccaries, wild pigs, deer, duikers and the larger rodents are among the most active seed dispersers or predators; thus a significant change in their population densities will have a major effect on seedling survival and forest regeneration (Beck 2005, Bodmer 1991, Fragoso 1997).”
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“For instance different Native American groups in the Amazon believe that shamans may reincarnate as peccaries, and these species may even be worshipped as deities in traditional belief systems (Donkin 1985).”
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“Netting and trapping were traditionally carried out using a variety of specialized techniques (Dounias 1999, Smith 2010); but the use of steel wire snares is now prominent in Africa, although often “illegal”, as the material is inexpensive, durable and strong enough to capture large animals.”
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“Further, results are frequently disseminated in unpublished reports or peer-reviewed articles that are not easily accessible to key audiences.”
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“The situation in the Amazon Basin is similar with 19 of 30 commonly hunted prey species not being listed in any of the threatened categories of the IUCN Red List (Vulnerable or Endangered), while a further four are data deficient.”
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“This is especially the case because central place foragers typically deplete large bodied species close to their base camps.”
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“Similar patterns have been recorded in the Amazon with declining White-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari) populations being accompanied by increasing density and larger group sizes for Collared peccaries (Pecari tajacu) (Fragoso 1994).”
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“Note also that Rushton et al. (2005) emphasize that though only a small percentage of people in South America consume bushmeat -they are typically the poorest and most marginalized.”
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“The traditional role of bushmeat has also been shown in Equatorial Guinea, where some species are considered to have magical or medicinal properties that increase their value and others are taboo (Kümpel 2006a).”
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“Primates and large carnivores appear extremely vulnerable and their populations plummet with intense hunting (Henschel 2009, Oates 1996).”
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“although some native people still use blow pipes and or bows and arrows where constrained by the availability of fire arms and the cost of ammunition.”
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“Some taxa appear highly vulnerable while others seem unaffected, and populations of a few taxa may even be enhanced by hunting (Bodmer et al. 1997, Cullen et al. 2000, Hurtado-Gonzales and Bodmer 2004, Isaac and Cowlishaw 2004, Salas and Kim 2002) -typically as a function of their ecological adaptability and population biology.”
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“In several African cities, bushmeat is still the cheapest source of protein and represents a crucial source of meat for the poorest urban households.”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > Reasons behind the consumption of bushmeat
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“Dogs are frequently used to find and corner prey (Noss et al. 2004).”
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“Hunted populations of Black colobus (Colobus satanas) in the Congo Basin, spider (Ateles sp.) and Woolly monkeys (Lagothrix sp.) in the Amazon basin have declined precipitously (Bodmer et al. 1994, Kümpel et al. 2010a, Robinson and Redford 1994).”
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“Studies are frequently limited to single sites, using a multiplicity of research approaches, limiting prospects for comparisons.”
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“In Latin America over 200 species of mammals, ca.750 bird species (including over 530 species for the pet trade), more than 60 species of reptiles and a minimum of 5 species of amphibians have been registered as harvested for household consumption and for markets (Ojasti 2000).”
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“Despite this evidence and increased international attention, more than ten years later information on the bushmeat harvest and trade is still fragmentary and our understanding of the complex interactions between ecological, socio-economic and cultural dimensions of the issue remains limited.”
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“Monkeys are hunted in large numbers in some areas but because of their generally small body size they usually represent a small part of the harvested biomass.”
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“However, information on the harvest remains fragmentary, along with understanding of ecological, socioeconomic and cultural dimensions.”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > Abstract
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“This contrasts with the 21% of all mammal species which are considered threatened globally (IUCN 2008).”
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“In Gabon, 23 of the partially protected species and 24 of the totally protected species were found to be used as bushmeat, but rare and vulnerable species such as great apes and elephants usually represent a small proportion (often less than 5%) of the total catch (Abernethy andNdong Obiang 2010, van Vliet andMbazza 2011).”
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- Not matchedcites Abernethy andNdong Obiang 2010
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“The other possible wild substitute invertebrates, represents an important traditional habit and also, considering their nutritional composition, a substantial contribution to the human diet (Marconi et al. 2002, Vantomme et al. 2004) but they are generally seasonal and cannot fully substitute for meat and fish.”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > Reasons behind the consumption of bushmeat
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“In Sarawak a strictly enforced law bans trade in wild animals and their parts, ensures strict control of shotgun cartridge availability and of hunting in logging concessions, and provides for broad education programs and involvement of local communities in the management of protected areas.”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > CONCLUSION: EMPTY FORESTS AND EMPTY STOMACHS?
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“Starkey (2004) estimated that a total of 161 tonnes of bushmeat was sold per year in five markets in Gabon.”
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“The best known and largest wild game market is in Iquitos Peru where for instance in the 1990s bush meat prices could reach $4 per kg (e.g., for meat from the highly prized paca Cunniculus paca) and the meat from an individual large peccary could be worth as much as US$60 with the hide bringing in an additional $10 to the hunter (Bodmer andLozano 2001, Claggett 1998).”
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“As a result, and because bushmeat plays a crucial role in the diets and livelihoods of people, options for sustainable harvest need to be investigated.”
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“Another factor in South America is that as household wealth has increased in some rural communities wild game consumption has increased, in part due to greater availability of firearms (Espinosa 2008, Godoy et al. 2009).”
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“Another special example of such use is the commercial harvest of Capybara meat for lent in Venezuela (Hoogesteijn andChapman 1997, Ojeda 1997) although cash benefits from this tend to accrue to large ranch owners rather than benefit poor rural livelihoods because the remaining land available for capybaras tends to be on extensive land holdings as opposed to small farms.”
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“but combined and incorporated into solid national and regional bushmeat strategies, there is potential to achieve a more sustainable use of wildlife for food in the Congo Basin.”
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“Elsewhere, bush meat may be sold in cities and on road side stands across the region, but typically not commanding higher prices than for domestic livestock such as cattle.”
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“Knowledge on the ecology of major bushmeat species in the Amazon is better but four of some 30 such species are in the data deficient category of the IUCN Red List.”
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“Indeed, rural and urban people in Central Africa and indigenous people and part of the rural poor in the Amazon, use bushmeat as a major source of protein and income or to serve multiple social roles.”
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“Similarly, Fa et al. (1995) suggested that the volume of bushmeat traded annually in Equatorial Guinea's two main markets is of the order of 178 tons.”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > Local trade
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“In a similar way, bushmeat can further subsidize large ranch owners economically since they often resist providing livestock meat for their workmen, who are encouraged to hunt instead.”
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“Increased hunting pressure has tangible effects on wildlife and is likely to have long term impacts on forest ecosystems.”
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“Urban trade in bushmeat is limited in size and location -though not very well known -and is not a major driver.”
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“This situation has some similarities to prevailing circumstances in most urban areas in the Amazon Basin, and might be a useful model to adapt or replicate.”
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“This market arose due to the lack of cattle ranching in this part of the lowland Amazon.”
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“In the Amazon Basin, a relatively small number of indigenous people depend on bushmeat for their everyday life and hunt at sustainable levels for most species.”
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“Another special example of such use is the commercial harvest of Capybara meat for lent in Venezuela (Hoogesteijn andChapman 1997, Ojeda 1997) although cash benefits from this tend to accrue to large ranch owners rather than benefit poor rural livelihoods because the remaining land available for capybaras tends to be on extensive land holdings as opposed to small farms.”
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“The urban population has access to one of the most active livestock sector of the world and therefore does not depend on bushmeat for protein intake.”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > CONCLUSION: EMPTY FORESTS AND EMPTY STOMACHS?
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Protein from forest wildlife is crucial to rural food security and livelihoods across the tropics.
“Protein from forest wildlife is crucial to rural food security and livelihoods across the tropics.”
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The harvest of animals provides benefits to local people worth millions of US$ annually.
“The harvest of animals such as tapir, duikers, deer, pigs, peccaries, primates and larger rodents, birds and reptiles provides benefits to local people worth millions of US$ annually and represents around 6 million tonnes of animals extracted yearly.”
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Hunters preferentially target large animals whenever they are available and these are often keystone species.
“Hunters preferentially target large animals whenever they are available and these are often keystone species.”
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When non-indigenous people become richer, they generally turn to alternative sources of protein.
“When they become”
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In remote forest areas of Central Africa and the Amazon basin, bushmeat is often the main source of animal protein available and plays an essential role in people's diets, especially where livestock husbandry is not feasible and wild fish not available.
“In remote forest areas of Central Africa and the Amazon basin bushmeat is often the main source of animal protein available and plays an essential role in people's diets especially where livestock husbandry is not a feasible option and wild fish not available.”
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Unlike rural or forest dwellers, urban consumers usually have a choice of several sources of protein but may opt for bushmeat for a variety of reasons that vary between regions.
“Unlike rural or forest dwellers, urban consumers usually have a choice of several sources of protein but may opt for bushmeat for a variety of reasons (e.g.cost, taste or preference) that vary between regions.”
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In Latin America, fruit eating species are preferred over folivores, the meat of which is frequently described as
“In Latin America, fruit eating species are preferred over folivores, the meat of which is frequently described as”
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There are prohibitions or taboos on hunting some species, for instance brocket deer by the Ayoreo People of Bolivia and Paraguay.
“There are also prohibitions or taboos on hunting some of the species as well, for instance for brocket deer by the Ayoreo People of Bolivia and Paraguay.”
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Data on bushmeat consumption by urban dwellers is especially scarce for the Amazon Basin.
“Data on bushmeat consumption by urban dwellers is especially scarce for the Amazon Basin (see however the case of Iquitos in the following section).”
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The volume and impact of sports hunting and tourist consumption of bushmeat are essentially unstudied.
“However, the volume and impact of these latter uses are essentially unstudied.”
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Data on population in the Congo Basin are notoriously unreliable and consumption patterns very variable.
“As for the Congo Basin, data (e.g.population) are notoriously unreliable and consumption patterns very variable.”
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Pigs and chickens have much higher feed conversion rates than cattle and both can thrive on kitchen scraps and crop residues.
“Pigs and chickens have much higher feed conversion rates than do cattle and both can thrive on kitchen scraps and crop residues.”
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Bushmeat trade across borders is frequent in the Congo Basin, especially in forest blocks located close to national borders where civil unrest and war have increased the availability of ammunitions and the demand for bushmeat.
“Bushmeat trade across borders is frequent in the Congo Basin, especially in forest blocks located close to national borders where civil unrest and war have increased the availability of ammunitions and the demand for bushmeat.”
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Bushmeat trade to Western countries exists.
“Bushmeat trade to Western countries also exists.”
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Even where urban consumers in the Congo Basin have access to domesticated sources of meat, they are imported and/or expensive and bushmeat remains an important part of their diet.
“Even where urban consumers have access to domesticated sources of meat they are imported and/or expensive and bushmeat remains an important part of their diet.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The production of the main alternative source of protein (cattle) is also the main driver of deforestation in the Amazon basin, with well known negative effects on wildlife and ecosystems.
“The flip side of the coin is that the production of the main alternative source of protein (e.g.cattle) is also the main driver of deforestation in the Amazon basin, with well known negative effects on wildlife and ecosystems.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Sustainable harvest of bushmeat is achievable.
“Achieving sustainable harvest of bushmeat is therefore a necessity and by far, the best available option compatible with biodiversity conservation, local livelihoods, food security and food self sufficiency.”
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In the paper
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > CONCLUSION: EMPTY FORESTS AND EMPTY STOMACHS?
“63 ± 25 kg/capita/year; range: 10-190 kg/capita/yr; n = 14”
§ Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins > CONCLUSION: EMPTY FORESTS AND EMPTY STOMACHS?
“| Transamazon highway, Brazil | 2.1-15.8 | Smith 1976 |”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Nasi, R., Taber, A., & Van Vliet, N.
- Affiliations
- CGIAR (FR)
- ORCID
- Nasi, R.
- Venue
- International Forestry Review
- Publisher
- Commonwealth Forestry Association
- Published
- 2011-09-01
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 355-368
- ISSN
- 1465-5489 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2135735879
- Semantic Scholar
- a68d7e2716a607267164ab03d360e30edb3fa3e4
- Cited by
- 457
- References
- 89
- Citations by year
- 2026: 23 · 2025: 30 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 46 · 2022: 36 · 2021: 35 · 2020: 40 · 2019: 57 · 2018: 28 · 2017: 30 · 2016: 34 · 2015: 37 · 2014: 20 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 10.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.cifor.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- The International Forestry Review (publishedVersion)
- Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) (publishedVersion)
- CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- BioOne Complete (BioOne) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- Keywords
- bushmeat, wildlife harvesting, livelihoods, food security, forest fauna, ecosystem engineers, keystone species, species extinction, Amazon basin, Congo Basin
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