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Demmer, Josefien; Godoy, Ricardo; Wilkie, David; Overman, Han; Taimur, Mohammad; Fernando, Karin; Gupta, Reena; McSweeney, Kendra; Brokaw, Nicholas; Sriram, Sangeetha; Price, Tanya S.

doi:10.1023/a:1020305903156

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“…Other authors (Godoy 2001, Demmer et al 2002 have argued that higher income should be associated with lower consumption when bushmeat is not the preferred animal protein, as we found. In contrast, East et al (2005) observed that bushmeat consumption increased with income in West African towns, even though fresh fish was the preferred animal protein.…”

Section: Economic Correlatessupporting

confidence: 80%

Cultural attitudes are stronger predictors of bushmeat consumption and preference than economic factors among urban Amazonians from Brazil and Colombia

Morsello¹,

Yagüe²,

Beltreschi³

et al. 2015

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ABSTRACT. Bushmeat consumption persists in urban areas in the Neotropics, yet knowledge of its scale and the relative importance of cultural and economic factors in determining consumption and preference remain elusive. Moreover, the roles of cultural beliefs, social norms, and attitudes in driving urban bushmeat consumption are rarely evaluated. Therefore, we explored in this article the factors that influence consumption and preference for bushmeat in Amazonian towns. Given the availability of other sources of animal protein and the cultural and social importance of bushmeat in the region, we hypothesized that cultural attributes should be better predictors than economic factors of bushmeat consumption and preference. Data analysis involved fitting two-level mixed-effects regressions (random intercepts) to a structured sample of 227 individuals (99 households) from four towns in the Brazilian (Tabatinga and Atalaia do Norte) and Colombian (Leticia and Puerto Nariño) Amazon. The results indicate that a third of the interviewees had consumed bushmeat in the past month, which had primarily been harvested by the family or received as a gift rather than obtained through trade. In general, both economic and cultural factors predicted bushmeat consumption and preference, but the objective proxy for culture, individual origin, was unimportant. Among the tested indicators, the strongest predictor was the importance of bushmeat to social relations. Moreover, informal social norms, such as the greater importance attributed to taboos, tended to decrease the average number of wild species that a person would eat, whereas attitudes toward the illegality of hunting were less important. The two economic indicators, increased income and wealth, tended to decrease preference for bushmeat and the likelihood of consumption. Our findings highlight the importance of human beliefs, attitudes, and social norms to the understanding of bushmeat consumption and preference and may contribute to the design of more effective and locally appropriate conservation and management strategies.

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Section: Economic Correlatessupporting

confidence: 80%

Cultural attitudes are stronger predictors of bushmeat consumption and preference than economic factors among urban Amazonians from Brazil and Colombia

Morsello¹,

Yagüe²,

Beltreschi³

et al. 2015

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“…Our data suggest that the switch to more effective hunting technology is possible because 24% of animals in Zábalo and 10% in Wajosará are hunted with machetes or makeshift spears. The ambiguous effects of economic development on the pervasiveness of hunting have also been reported by Demmer et al (2002). However, the model we employed does not capture this effect.…”

Section: Effect Of Economic Variables On Harvested Biomassmentioning

confidence: 78%

“…Most studies of bushmeat in Latin America have focused on understanding hunting practices and the sustainability of harvest levels (Robinson and Redford 1991, Peres 2000, Sirén et al 2004, Levi et al 2009, Shepard et al 2012, Iwamura et al 2014). The few studies with an economic focus have examined the relationship between bushmeat harvest and household variables based on empirical data (Wilkie and Godoy 2001, Demmer et al 2002, Sirén et al 2006, Godoy et al 2010). To our knowledge, only one study from Africa explicitly models bushmeat exploitation as a component of the household economy (Damania et al 2005).…”

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Predicting hunter behavior of indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon: insights from a household production model

Montaña¹,

Moreno-Sánchez²,

Maldonado³

et al. 2015

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ABSTRACT. Many indigenous communities living in the Amazon rely on hunting and fishing to meet the majority of their protein needs. Despite the importance of these practices, few studies from the region have analyzed the socioeconomic drivers of hunting and fishing at the household level. We propose a household production model to assess the effect of key economic parameters on hunting and fishing in small indigenous communities located in the Ecuadorian Amazon, whose principal source of protein is derived from hunting and fishing. The model was validated using empirical data from two communities that reflect different levels of market integration and forest conservation. Demand and supply functions were generated from household data gathered over 19 months. Elasticities were derived to determine the sensitivity of the decision to engage in hunting to exogenous parameters such as off-farm wages, hunting costs, bushmeat price, penalties for the illegal sale of bushmeat, and biological characteristics of the game species. After calibrating the model, we simulated changes in the key economic parameters. The parameter that most directly affected hunting activity in both communities was off-farm wages. Simulating a 10% wage increase resulted in a 16-20% reduction in harvested biomass, while a 50% increase diminished harvested biomass by > 50%. Model simulations revealed that bushmeat price and penalties for illegal trade also had important effects on hunter behavior in terms of amount of bushmeat sold, but not in terms of total harvest. As a tool for understanding hunters' economic decision-making, the model provides a basis for developing strategies that promote sustainable hunting and wildlife conservation while protecting indigenous livelihoods.

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“…Hunting may be sustainable also if the forest is remote and the assemblages have very low human population density, if settlements are relatively young, small, and have a low consumer population (De Thoisy et al 2005, Demmer et al 2002, Mazurek et al 2000, Alvard et al 1997.…”

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Terrestrial mammal assemblages in protected and human impacted areas in Northern Brazilian Amazonia

Luna¹,

Reyes²,

Lucena³

et al. 2017

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Mammal communities in the vicinity of human settlements are often subject to subsistence hunting and retaliatory killings. We used fourteen digital camera traps equipped with infrared triggers to sample the medium-sized and large mammal communities for ca. 34 (±1.64) days per site. Diversity was measured as both Shannon entropy and Fager´s number of moves (NMS), and dominance was quantified using the Berger-Parker index. We used Kruskall-Wallis tests to investigate if there were statistically significant differences in richness, diversity and dominance among the sites. At an overall sampling effort of 1,946 trap days we recorded 216 independent observations of a total of 20 species belonging to 17 genera and 15 families. Richness and diversity appeared to be determined by forest structure, since, independent of the level of human impact, the richest areas were those closest to the ombrophilous forests of southern Guyana shield, closest to central Amazonia, whereas the poorest were at those sites closest to the vegetation mosaics of central Guyana shield. The disappearance of Tayassu pecari from the impacted areas as well as higher relative abundances in the protected areas, albeit not significant, foresees a possible bleak future for the mammalian assemblages in the near future.

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Cited by 22 publications

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Cultural attitudes are stronger predictors of bushmeat consumption and preference than economic factors among urban Amazonians from Brazil and Colombia

Cultural attitudes are stronger predictors of bushmeat consumption and preference than economic factors among urban Amazonians from Brazil and Colombia

Predicting hunter behavior of indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon: insights from a household production model

Terrestrial mammal assemblages in protected and human impacted areas in Northern Brazilian Amazonia

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