Saving rodents, losing primates—Why we need tailored bushmeat management strategies

Abstract

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Using conservation criminology to understand the role of restaurants in the urban wild meat trade

“…Our results make clear that tackling the wild meat trade in Brazzaville restaurants (i.e., a niche market by Ekblom's standards), especially middle‐tier ones that offer more meat variety generally, will require a tailored approach that addresses the underlying reasons for this species diversification. The disaggregated information about geographic product choice obtained from this VIVA analysis helps highlight the differences in trade dynamics and can inform more contextually‐specific and nuanced interventions in Kinshasa and Brazzaville (as called for by Jones et al, 2019, Bachmann et al, 2019, Bachmann et al, 2020).…”

Wild Meat Is Still on the Menu: Progress in Wild Meat Research, Policy, and Practice from 2002 to 2020

“…hunting restrictions around protected areas (PAs) (118). Research has shown that actors are not homogeneous, and progress has been made in subdividing communities into groups sharing similar profiles (119,120), which can be used to better target interventions. Research into the identity and motivations of traders is still very limited, but research in Côte d'Ivoire found that traders were introduced into the wild meat trade through other actors in the trade and remained in the trade to support their families (99).…”

“…Research into the identity and motivations of traders is still very limited, but research in Côte d'Ivoire found that traders were introduced into the wild meat trade through other actors in the trade and remained in the trade to support their families (99). Since 2002, it has become more clear that approaches to manage wild meat use need to be context-specific (120). At the subsistence hunter level, focus has shifted toward developing participatory approaches to regulating offtakes, including comanagement with local communities (121), devolution to local authorities (122), and engaging hunters to monitor their own harvests using catch-per-unit effort (54).…”

Influencing consumer demand is vital for tackling the illegal wildlife trade

“…• We have limited information about the effectiveness and efficiency of interventions to manage demand for IWT products, both in terms of regulation and in terms of voluntary behaviour change (Bachmann et al, 2020;Dang Vu et al, 2020). This is crucial to understanding how different kinds of interventions may impact different groups across the supply chain.…”

“…If they do, understanding them is critical if conservationists are to design effective counter‐marketing actions. There is an increasing amount of literature that points to the critical importance of trusted messengers when communicating with IWT consumer groups (Olmedo et al., 2020; Wang et al., 2020). Yet, we know very little about their comparative effectiveness and efficiency. We have limited information about the effectiveness and efficiency of interventions to manage demand for IWT products, both in terms of regulation and in terms of voluntary behaviour change (Bachmann et al., 2020; Dang Vu et al, 2020). This is crucial to understanding how different kinds of interventions may impact different groups across the supply chain. Beyond existing IWT, a number of currently legal wildlife products may be heading towards future unsustainable consumption.…”