Coupling paraecology and hunter GPS self‐follows to quantify village bushmeat hunting dynamics across the landscape scale. (25th March 2022)
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- Title:
- Coupling paraecology and hunter GPS self‐follows to quantify village bushmeat hunting dynamics across the landscape scale. (25th March 2022)
- Main Title:
- Coupling paraecology and hunter GPS self‐follows to quantify village bushmeat hunting dynamics across the landscape scale
- Authors:
- Froese, Graden Z. L.
Ebang Mbélé, Alex
Beirne, Christopher
Atsame, Lucie
Bayossa, Charlottte
Bazza, Blaise
Bidzime Nkoulou, Martine
Dzime N'noh, Sylvain
Ebeba, Jovin
Edzidzie, Jocelin
Ekazama Koto, Serge
Imbomba, Serge
Mandomobo Mapio, Edouard
Mandou Mabouanga, Hervé Gildas
Mba Edang, Edouard
Landry Metandou, Jonas
Mossindji, Clotaire
Ngoboutseboue, Irma
Nkwele, Christ
Nzemfoule, Eric
Sala Elie, Bonaventure
Sergent, Aimé‐Placide
Poulsen, John R. - Abstract:
- Abstract: Hunting for bushmeat represents a complex social–ecological system ill‐suited to top‐down management. Community participatory management is an alternative approach with increasing support for both ethical and pragmatic reasons. Key to a community approach is long‐term monitoring: this can both catalyse local ownership of and cohesion around management and is necessary to assess the effects of interventions and make changes as needed through adaptive management. Yet community‐driven methods to monitor hunting remain underdeveloped: they often fail to account for sampling bias and do not incorporate space in a thorough way, and data are not communally analysed to simulate effects of potential management decisions. We created a novel community bushmeat monitoring programme to address these gaps across 20 villages in north‐eastern Gabon. Paraecologists conducted standardised monitoring of bushmeat, and hundreds of hunters conducted GPS self‐follows mapping village hunting catchments. We integrated these data to estimate the proportion of bushmeat sampled and make robust extrapolations of total offtake across space and time, estimating an annual offtake of ~30, 000 animals of >56 species across all villages. Here, we present our approach and data—and apply them through a case study of six sympatric duiker species—to inform new directions for social–ecological bushmeat research and management. Résumé: La chasse pour la viande de brousse représente un systèmeAbstract: Hunting for bushmeat represents a complex social–ecological system ill‐suited to top‐down management. Community participatory management is an alternative approach with increasing support for both ethical and pragmatic reasons. Key to a community approach is long‐term monitoring: this can both catalyse local ownership of and cohesion around management and is necessary to assess the effects of interventions and make changes as needed through adaptive management. Yet community‐driven methods to monitor hunting remain underdeveloped: they often fail to account for sampling bias and do not incorporate space in a thorough way, and data are not communally analysed to simulate effects of potential management decisions. We created a novel community bushmeat monitoring programme to address these gaps across 20 villages in north‐eastern Gabon. Paraecologists conducted standardised monitoring of bushmeat, and hundreds of hunters conducted GPS self‐follows mapping village hunting catchments. We integrated these data to estimate the proportion of bushmeat sampled and make robust extrapolations of total offtake across space and time, estimating an annual offtake of ~30, 000 animals of >56 species across all villages. Here, we present our approach and data—and apply them through a case study of six sympatric duiker species—to inform new directions for social–ecological bushmeat research and management. Résumé: La chasse pour la viande de brousse représente un système social‐écologique complexe, mal adressé par la gestion étatique. La gestion participative communautaire est une approche alternative de plus en plus soutenue pour des raisons étiques comme pragmatiques. Le suivi à long‐terme est clé pour l'approche communautaire: il peut catalyser l'appropriation locale et la cohésion autour de la gestion et est nécessaire pour évaluer les effets des interventions et les changer en cas de necessité avec la gestion adaptative. Or les méthodes communautaire de suivi de la chasse sont sous‐développées: elles n'adressent souvent pas le biais d'échantillonnage, n'intègrent pas l'espace dans une manière profonde, et l'analyse de données ne se fait pas de façon communautaire pour simuler les effets des décisions éventuelles dans la gestion. Nous avons crée un nouveau programme qui s'adresse à ces lacunes à travers 20 villages au nord‐est du Gabon. Des paraécologistes ont fait du suivi standardisé de la viande de brousse, et des centaines de chasseurs ont fait l'auto‐suivi GPS cartographiant des zones de chasse villageoises. Nous avons intégré ces données pour estimer la proportion de la viande de brousse échantillonné et extrapoler le prélèvement total à travers l'espace et le temps, estimant un prélèvement annuel de ~30, 000 animaux de >56 espèces à travers tous les villages. Ici, nous présentons notre approche et nos données—et les appliquer à travers une étude de cas de six espèces de céphalophes sympatriques—pour informer des nouvelles directions de recherche et gestion sociale‐ecologique de la viande de brousse. … (more)
- Is Part Of:
- African journal of ecology. Volume 60:Number 2(2022)
- Journal:
- African journal of ecology
- Issue:
- Volume 60:Number 2(2022)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 60, Issue 2 (2022)
- Year:
- 2022
- Volume:
- 60
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2022-0060-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 229
- Page End:
- 249
- Publication Date:
- 2022-03-25
- Subjects:
- Central Africa -- community monitoring -- data integration -- duiker -- Gabon -- participatory cartography -- wild meat -- wildlife management
Zoology -- Africa -- Periodicals
Ecology -- Africa -- Periodicals
Wildlife management -- Africa -- Periodicals
Zoology -- Africa, East -- Periodicals
Ecology -- Africa, East -- Periodicals
Wildlife management -- Africa, East -- Periodicals
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1111/aje.12956 ↗
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- 0141-6707
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