Situational Analysis Report: Xishuangbanna Autonomous Dai Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China

Hammond, James; Yi, Zhuang-Fang; McLellan, Timothy; Zhao, Jiawen

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“…Reported per capita annual incomes were slightly higher than the Xishuangbanna state average ($1096) (Hammond et al 2015). 76% of interviewed households had per capita annual incomes above China's poverty line (RMB 2500/USD $375).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Respondents in the quantitative and semistructured interviews indicated a preference for wild meat over domestic poultry or pork. Local villagers are largely well nourished with ample access to domestic poultry and livestock (Hammond et al 2015). The low catch rates from the bag records indicate that hunting would not provide a stable source of food, similar to the findings of Kai et al (2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In rural Xishuangbanna, smallholder agriculture is the primary livelihood, employing approximately 95% of the rural population (Hammond et al 2015). Rubber ( Hevea brasiliensis ) and tea ( Camellia sinensis ) smallholding has lifted villagers in Xishuangbanna out of poverty and into the global middle class over the past decade (Guo et al 2002, Xu et al 2005a, 2014, Yi et al 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…From the 1980s onward, land parcels were allocated to and managed by individual households (Xu 2006, Grumbine and Xu 2011). The main ethnic groups in this region are the Dai and Han along with smaller ethnic minority groups such as the Yao, Hani, Bulang, Jinuo, and Lahu (Xu 2006, Hammond et al 2015). …”

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confidence: 99%

“…The number of households per village ranged from 23 to 83 (Appendix 1, Table A1). Nearly every household in the studied region has a refrigerator, and there are currently no records of protein insecurity or malnutrition in Xishuangbanna (Hammond et al 2015). …”

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Hunting is one of the greatest threats to tropical vertebrates. Examining why people hunt is crucial to identifying policy levers to prevent excessive hunting. Overhunting is particularly relevant in Southeast Asia, where a high proportion of mammals and birds are globally threatened. We interviewed hunters in Southwest China to examine their social behavior, motivations, and responses to changes in wildlife abundance. Respondents viewed hunting as a form of recreation, not as an economic livelihood, and reported that they would not stop hunting in response to marked declines in expected catch. Even in scenarios where the expected catch was limited to minimal quantities of small, low-price songbirds, up to 36.7% of respondents said they would still continue to hunt. Recreational hunting may be a prominent driver for continued hunting in increasingly defaunated landscapes; this motivation for hunting and its implications for the ecological consequences of hunting have been understudied relative to subsistence and profit hunting. The combination of a preference for larger over smaller game, reluctance to quit hunting, and weak enforcement of laws may lead to hunting-down-the-web outcomes in Southwest China.

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Should I shoot or should I go? Simple rules for prey selection in multi‐species hunting systems

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Across the tropics, unregulated hunting targeting many different species presents a major conservation challenge. Prioritizing resources for monitoring and enforcement is difficult when multiple prey species are exploited. However, identifying which prey species are subject to hunting pressure can be achieved with diet choice models. We evaluate hunter diet sets using data from Southwest China and compare two diet choice models: optimal foraging theory and a relatively new diet model originating from economic optimal stopping problems. The optimal stopping diet choice model required fewer field parameters than optimal foraging models and more accurately reflected hunter catch in Southwest China. The optimal stopping model also indicated that hunters should be less selective when they experience a larger opportunity cost for their time. Finally, we illustrate a new method to evaluate harvest impact from single sites with limited data using dietary thresholds. This technique could be used to evaluate whether or not the community of exploited wildlife has shifted in its trait distribution, providing a means to anticipate trait‐biased defaunation from minimal data.

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Agricultural expansion and forest retreat in Mainland Southeast Asia since the late 1980s

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Agrarian expansion and intensification in the tropical agricultural‐forest frontiers (TAFF) are continuously encroaching on forests, yet the magnitudes and processes of agricultural‐forest advances and retreats remain lacking investigation systematically and quantitatively. With over three‐decade (1987–2018) of land‐cover products, here, we revealed the spatiotemporal dynamic processes of agricultural advance and forest retreat and then quantified forest loss (FL) due to cropland and plantation expansion (PE) in Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA). First, the agricultural expansion and FL peaked in the late 1990s to early 2000s and decelerated afterward in MSEA. Meanwhile, the continuous decline in deforestation rates was accompanied by a decline in the patches of forest fragments, while cropland and plantations first decreased and then increased. Second, 85% of cropland expansion (CE) occurred in forest frontiers of Myanmar (37%) and Thailand (32%) in particular, compared with 72% of PE in plantation‐forest frontiers, for example, 24% in Thailand and 22% in Cambodia. Third, 51% and 37% of the forests that declined were converted into cropland and plantations, respectively, with obvious national variations. In the least developed countries, such as Myanmar and Cambodia, CE dominated (65%), while the proportion of PE in Thailand and Vietnam was up to 56%. Finally, over 10% of the advances and retreats (re‐)occurred in various protected areas, with the expansion ratio of cropland and plantations nearly 1:2, particularly the Cambodia‐Thailand border. We thus appeal for more effective efforts from governments, the scientific community, and international initiatives (e.g., the UN‐REDD and Sustainable Development Goals) to further study and solve the issues of forest retreat and agricultural advance across the entire TAFF. Our new findings and insights about agricultural‐forest advances and retreats in their frontiers can enrich existing pan‐regional research of forest conversion or FL and agricultural expansion and provide an encouraging basis for action to reduce environmental degradation in tropical forests, including protected areas.

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Situational Analysis Report: Xishuangbanna Autonomous Dai Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China

Cited by 19 publications

References 16 publications

The pleasure of pursuit: recreational hunters in rural Southwest China exhibit low exit rates in response to declining catch

The pleasure of pursuit: recreational hunters in rural Southwest China exhibit low exit rates in response to declining catch

Should I shoot or should I go? Simple rules for prey selection in multi‐species hunting systems

Agricultural expansion and forest retreat in Mainland Southeast Asia since the late 1980s

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