Hunting for Sustainability in Tropical Forests

by Robinson, John G.; Bennett, Elizabeth L.

• ISBN13: 9780231109765
• ISBN10: 0231109768
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

Throughout the world people are concerned about the demise of tropical forests and their wildlife. Hunting by forest-dwelling people has a dramatic effect on wildlife in many tropical forests, frequently driving species to local extinction, with devastating implications for other species and the health of the forests themselves. But wildlife is an important source of protein and cash for rural peoples. Can hunting be managed to conserve biological communities while meeting human needs? Are hunting rates as practiced by tropical forest peoples sustainable? If not, what are the biological, social, and cultural implications of this failure? Answering these questions is ever more important as national and international agencies seek to integrate the development of local peoples with the conservation of tropical forest systems and species. This book presents a wide array of studies that examine the sustainability of hunting as practiced by rural peoples. Comprising work by both biological and social scientists, Hunting for Sustainability in Tropical Forests provides a balanced viewpoint on the ecological and human aspects of this hunting. The first section examines the effects of hunting on wildlife in tropical forests throughout the world. The next section looks at the importance of hunting to local communities. The third section looks at institutional challenges of resource management, while the fourth draws on economic perspectives to understand both hunting and sustainability. A final section provides synthesis and summary of the factors that influence sustainability and the implications for management. Drawing on examples from Ecuador to Congo-Zaire to Sulawesi, Hunting for Sustainability in Tropical Forests will be a valuable resource to policymakers, conservation organizations, and students and scholars of biology, ecology, and anthropology.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xv
George B. Schaller
Preface	xix
Hunting for the Snark	1	(12)
Elizabeth L. Bennett
John G. Robinson
Part I: Biological Limits to Sustainability
Carrying Capacity Limits to Sustainable Hunting in Tropical Forests	13	(18)
John G. Robinson
Elizabeth L. Bennett
Evaluating the Impact and Sustainability of Subsistence Hunting at Multiple Amazonian Forest Sites	31	(26)
Carlos A. Peres
The Sustainability of Current Hunting Practices by the Huaorani	57	(22)
Patricio Mena V.
Jody R. Stallings
Jhanira Regalado B.
Ruben Cueva L.
Sustainability of Ache Hunting in the Mbaracayu Reserve, Paraguay	79	(27)
Kim Hill
Jonathan Padwe
Impact and Sustainability of Indigenous Hunting in the Ituri Forest, Congo-Zaire: A Comparison of Unhunted and Hunted Duiker Populations	106	(48)
John A. Hart
Threatened Mammals, Subsistence Harvesting, and High Human Population Densities: A Recipe for Disaster?	154	(14)
Clare D. Fitzgibbon
Hezron Mogaka
John H. Fanshawe
Hunted Animals in Bioko Island, West Africa: Sustainability and Future	168	(31)
John E. Fa
Differential Vulnerability of Large Birds and Mammals to Hunting in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and the Outlook for the Future	199	(15)
Timothy G. O'Brien
Margaret F. Kinnaird
The Impact of Traditional Subsistence Hunting and Trapping on Prey Populations: Data from Wana Horticulturalists of Upland Central Sulawesi, Indonesia	214	(19)
Michael Alvard
Part II: Sociocultural Context Influencing Sustainability
A Pound of Flesh: Social Change and Modernization as Factors in Hunting Sustainability Among Neotropical Indigenous Societies	233	(18)
Allyn Maclean Stearman
Wildlife Conservation and Game Harvest by Maya Hunters in Quintana Roo, Mexico	251	(16)
Jeffrey P. Jorgenson
The Sustainability of Subsistence Hunting by the Siriono Indians of Bolivia	267	(15)
Wendy R. Townsend
Cable Snares and Nets in the Central African Republic	282	(23)
Andrew Noss
Saving Borneo's Bacon: The Sustainability of Hunting in Sarawak and Sabah	305	(20)
Elizabeth L. Bennett
Adrian J. Nyaoi
Jephte Sompud
Agta Hunting and Sustainability of Resource Use in Northeastern Luzon, Philippines	325	(14)
P. Bion Griffin
Marcus B. Griffin
Part III: Institutional Capacity for Management
Hunting for an Answer: Is Local Hunting Compatible with Large Mammal Conservation in India?	339	(17)
M. D. Madhusudan
K. Ullas Karanth
Enhancing the Sustainability of Duiker Hunting Through Community Participation and Controlled Access in the Lobeke Region of Southeastern Cameroon	356	(19)
Cheryl Fimbel
Bryan Curran
Leonard Usongo
Traditional Management of Hunting in a Xavante Community in Central Brazil: The Search for Sustainability	375	(20)
Frans J. Leeuwenberg
John G. Robinson
Community-Based Comanagement of Wildlife in the Peruvian Amazon	395	(18)
Richard Bodmer
Pablo E. Puertas
Part IV: Economic Influences on Sustainability
Wildlife Use in Northern Congo: Hunting in a Commercial Logging Concession	413	(14)
Philippe Auzel
David S. Wilkie
Socioeconomics and the Sustainability of Hunting in the Forests of Northern Congo (Brazzaville)	427	(28)
Heather E. Eves
Richard G. Ruggiero
Impact of Subsistence Hunting in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and Conservation Options	455	(18)
Rob J. Lee
The Trade in Wildlife in North Sulawesi, Indonesia	473	(26)
Lynn Clayton
E. J. Milner-Gulland
Part V: Synthesis
Hunting for Sustainability: The Start of a Synthesis	499	(22)
Elizabeth L. Bennett
John G. Robinson
Appendix Calculating Maximum Sustainable Harvests and Percentage Offtakes	521	(4)
John G. Robinson
References	525	(48)
Index	573