The impacts of selective logging on non-timber forest products of livelihood importance

Rist, Lucy; Shanley, Patrícia; Sunderland, Terry; Sheil, Douglas; Ndoye, O.; Liswanti, N.; Tieguhong, Julius Chupezi

doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2011.04.037

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“…In the Congo Basin, timber exploitation is placing growing pressure on local biodiversity, with potential negative repercussions on food security and livelihoods [104]. Some timber species have edible fruits and oil extracted from seeds; others host caterpillars that make up 75% of the protein eaten by the Baka during the period when caterpillars are available [105].…”

Section: Sustainable Use Of Nwfps and Threats To The Resource Basementioning

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The Contribution of Forests and Trees to Sustainable Diets

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Abstract:With the growing demands from a population expected to reach 9 billion people by 2050, it is unclear how our current global food system will meet future food needs. Ensuring that all people have access to adequate and nutritious food produced in an environmentally and socio-culturally sustainable manner is one of the greatest challenges of our time. -Sustainable diets‖ have been proposed as a multidimensional framework to address the need for nutritious and adequate food in the context of the many challenges facing the world today: reducing poverty and hunger, improving environmental health, enhancing human well-being and health, and strengthening local food networks, sustainable livelihoods and cultural heritage. This paper examines the contribution of forests and trees to sustainable diets, covering among others, nutritional, cultural, environmental and provisioning aspects. The literature reviewed highlight major opportunities to strengthen the contribution of forest and tree foods to sustainable diets. However, several constraints need to be removed. They relate to: cultural aspects, sustainable use of non-wood forest products, organization of forest food provisioning, limited knowledge of forest food composition, challenges in adapting management of forests and trees to account for forest foods, and in integrating forest biodiversity into complex landscapes managed for multiple benefits. Finally, the paper identifies research OPEN ACCESS Sustainability 2013, 5 4798 gaps and makes recommendations to enhance the contribution of forest foods to sustainable diets through increased awareness and better integration of information and knowledge on nutritious forest foods into national nutrition strategies and programs.

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The Contribution of Forests and Trees to Sustainable Diets

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“…Previous studies have revealed negative effects of selective logging on wildlife populations (Rist et al 2011). However, conservationists should not dismiss the environmental value of selectively logged forests.…”

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“…Legal extraction from these concessions requires plans for reforestation, minimizing the socio-cultural effect on the local people and the biological effect on the environment (MINAG 2009). Although many studies have explored the social, economic, and ecological effects of timber concessions (Uhl et al 1991, Verissimo et al 1992, Watson 1996, Lescuyer et al 2012, most have focused on the effects on lumber species targeted for extraction, and relatively few on game and other wildlife species (Rist et al 2011). However, it has been repeatedly shown that timber operations cause widespread negative effects on wildlife populations, including population declines and local extinctions, as well as other effects such as infant malnutrition, abandonment, and mortality (Thiollay 1992, Marsden 1998, Meijaard et al 2006.…”

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Effects of selective logging on large mammal populations in a remote indigenous territory in the northern Peruvian Amazon

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ABSTRACT. We examined the effects of selective timber logging carried out by local indigenous people in remote areas within indigenous territories on the mammal populations of the Yavari-Mirin River basin on the Peru-Brazil border. Recent findings show that habitat change in the study area is minimal, and any effect of logging activities on large mammal populations is highly likely to be the result of hunting associated with logging operations. We used hunting registers to estimate the monthly and yearly biomass extracted during timber operations and to calculate the catch per unit effort (CPUE) in subsistence hunting in the community of Esperanza 2 to 5 years before logging activities started and 4 to 7 years after logging began. We also used line transects and the distance method to estimate animal densities before and after logging. We found that 1389 hunted animals and 27,459 kg of mammal biomass were extracted per year from logging concessions. CPUE for ungulates declined; however, it increased for other mammal orders, such as rodents and primates, indicating a shift to alternative prey items. Although collared peccaries (Pecari tajacu) and tapirs (Tapirus terrestris) may also have declined in numbers, this shift may have been caused by a possibly natural population crash in white-lipped peccaries (Tayassu pecari) that coincided with the logging periods. We found no evidence that populations of primates were reduced by the logging activities. Because primates are sensitive to hunting, and their populations were of principal concern as logging commenced, this indicates that these forests remain of high conservation value. The unusual socioeconomic situation of these remote territories may mean that they are compatible with wildlife conservation in the Yavari-Mirin basin.

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“…From this result, it showed that the tengkawang agroforestry (model 2) was a promising alternative to conserve tengkawang tree and to sustain the economy of the locals. The utilization of non-timber forest products contributed significantly to the economy of people settling around the forest (Jensen 2009;Rist et al 2012;Dawson et al 2014). Wood product consumption will keep increasing.…”

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Seagrass community structure of Tayando-Tam Island, Southeast Moluccas, Indonesia

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Abstract. Winarni B, Lahjie AM, Simarangkir B.D.A.S, Yusuf S, Ruslim Y.2017. Tengkawang cultivation model in community forest using agroforestry systems in West Kalimantan,. Tengkawang is the flora mascot of West Kalimantan and has long been supporting the life of people around the forest. Its fruit can be processed into fat which traded as 'green butter', 'borneo tallow', or 'tengkawang oil', which used as cocoa butter substitutes and the material for manufacturing lipstick, candle and drugs. Its wood was used as raw material for sawmill and plywood industries. Today, tengkawang tree existence is endangered and has been replaced with rubber plantations. The purposes of this research were to: (i) analyze the maximum growth increment of tengkawang; (ii) analyze the maximum production of tengkawang fruits and latex; (iii) analyze the financial feasibility of tengkawang cultivation and tengkawang combined with rubber; and (iv)formulate tengkawang cultivation model. The research used a descriptive method in survey form and interview technique by using questionnaire. The research result showed that the maximum growth increment of tengkawang which cultivated in monoculture (model 1) and tengkawang combined with rubber (model 2) were achieved at the age of 40 years. The maximum production of tengkawang fruit in model 1 and model 2 were achieved at the age of 64 years, while the maximum production of latex (model 2) was achieved at the age of 17 years. The cultivation of tengkawang by model 1 produced IRR of 12.3% and model 2 produced IRR of 12.9%. Financially, both cultivation models of tengkawang were feasible to be cultivated. Financially, tengkawang cultivation by using rubber in an agroforestry system was more profitable than tengkawang cultivation in monoculture.

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The impacts of selective logging on non-timber forest products of livelihood importance

Cited by 102 publications

References 73 publications

The Contribution of Forests and Trees to Sustainable Diets

The Contribution of Forests and Trees to Sustainable Diets

Effects of selective logging on large mammal populations in a remote indigenous territory in the northern Peruvian Amazon

Seagrass community structure of Tayando-Tam Island, Southeast Moluccas, Indonesia

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