La chasse est une activité importante pour les communautés proches des réserves de faunes malgré ses impacts négatifs sur les espèces sauvages. Durant un an et demi, un suivi quotidien a été mené aux côtés des chasseurs pendant 203 parties de chasse dans la zone d'étude. L'objectif de cette étude était de recenser les espèces chassées, d'analyser les différents lieux des prélèvements et d'évaluer la pression subie par la faune. L'utilisation des Modèles Linéaires Généralisés réalisés avec le logiciel R 3.4.1 ont permis le traitement des données des espèces prélevées. Au total, 2712 gibiers appartenant à 09 ordres d'animaux et 34 espèces ont été recensés parmi les prélèvements. Les espèces les plus abattues étaient des espèces de petites tailles comme Lepus crawashayi (31,12 %), Francolinus bicalcaratus (29,09 %) et Thryonomys swinderianus (10,88 %). La plupart des gibiers sont abattus dans les champs (53,28%) et les jachères (29,17%) et sur les affleurements rocheux (3,32%) et quelques-uns sont prélevés à l'intérieur de la savane protégée (1,29%). Les prélèvements sont non sélectifs, d'où des atteintes à la biodiversité faunique. Cette pression se manifeste aussi par la présence des espèces menacées dans les prélèvements , inscrites sur la liste rouge de l'UICN, comme l'Ourebie (Ourebia ourebia) , une espèce vulnérable (VU) et l'Outarde de Denham (Neotis denhami), une autre espèce en danger critique (CR). Les espèces prélevées sont des espèces résilientes de petites tailles qui résistent à la pression de la chasse pour le moment, mais, avec l'augmentation de la population, cette chasse ne sera plus soutenable. AbstractHunting is an important activity for communities close to wildlife reserves, despite its negative impacts on wildlife. For one and a half day, daily monitoring was conducted alongside the hunters during 203 hunting parties in the study area. This paper focuses on identifying the species hunted, to analyze the different sampling sites, and to evaluate the pressure on the fauna. The use of Generalized Linear Models realized in the software R 3.4.1 allowed the treatment of the data of the collected species. A total of 2712 game animals, belonging to 09 orders of animals and 34 species, were identified among the samples. The most severed species were small-sized species such as Lepus crawashayi (31.12%), Francolinus bicalcaratus (29.09%), and Thryonomys swinderianus (10.88%). Most game is slaughtered in the fields (53.28%), fallows (29.17%) and on rocky outcrops (3.32%), and some are taken from the protected savannah (1.29%). The samples are non-selective, resulting in damage to wildlife biodiversity. This pressure is also manifested by the presence of endangered species in the IUCN Red List samples, such as the vulnerable Ourebie (Ourebia ourebia) (VU) and Denham's Bustard (Neotis denhami), another critically endangered species (CR). The harvested species are small resilient species that are resistant to hunting pressure for the moment. As the population increases, this hunt will no longer be sustainab...
Illegal hunting of wildlife is one of the major issues in tropical ecosystems, especially when it occurs in highly degraded habitats with forest cover fragmentation. In this study, we assessed the impact of bushmeat hunting in a large forest patch (the Lama Natural Forest; LNF) and 11 nearby forest islands, using Traditional Ecological Knowledge from 240 interviewees across 16 villages. Thirty‐five species belonging to nine orders of mammals, birds and reptiles were mentioned by local communities. Rodentia were significantly more observed in the forest islands, whereas medium‐sized mammals belonging to Carnivora, Primates, Artiodactyla, Pholidota and Hyracoida were found predominantly in LNF. Approximately 57% of the species were reported to be rare in the forest islands, whereas c. 77% were listed as abundant in LNF, confirming the role of LNF as a refuge for forest species targeted by the bushmeat trade. Generalised linear models indicated that species sighting frequencies were positively correlated with perimeters of forest patches. We found hunting pressure to be greater in forest islands in the vicinity of LNF than those further away. Our results suggest that long‐term conservation of wildlife in southern Benin may require a ‘mainland‐islands’ approach including both LNF and its surrounding forest islands.
Protected areas play an important role in the sustainable conservation of biodiversity. In southern Benin Republic, the Lama Forest Reserve is a refuge for wildlife. It also generates significant incomes for the local population. However, anthropogenic activities together with uncontrolled hunting are increasingly threatening the sustainability of these resources. The study aims at investigating the hunting activities characteristics and the morphometric traits of hunted species in the Lama Forest Reserve. Snowball method has been used to constitute the sample of field respondents. Descriptive and inference statistics have been carried out to show results and analyze data. The results show that twenty-three species are mainly hunted, more for trade than for subsistence, with a dominance of mammals. It should be noted that hunting activities don't have the same level among hunted games, species and sexes although this is not generally significant statistically.
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