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Landscape correlates of bushmeat consumption and hunting in a post-frontier Amazonian region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2017

PATRICIA CARIGNANO TORRES ,
CARLA MORSELLO ,
LUKE PARRY ,
JOS BARLOW ,
JOICE FERREIRA ,
TOBY GARDNER  and
RENATA PARDINI
PATRICIA CARIGNANO TORRES*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, 101, Travessa 14, CEP 05508-090, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
CARLA MORSELLO
Affiliation:
Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Arlindo Béttio, 1000, CEP 03828-000, Ermelino Matarazzo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
LUKE PARRY
Affiliation:
Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, UK Núcleo de Altos Estudos Amazônicos (NAEA), Universidade Federal do Pará, Av. Perimetral, Numero 1 – Guamá, CEP 66075-750, Belém, PA, Brazil
JOS BARLOW
Affiliation:
Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, UK Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Av. Magalhães Barata, 376, CEP 66040-170, Belém, Brazil
JOICE FERREIRA
Affiliation:
Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Trav. Dr. Enéas Pinheiro s/n, CP 48, CEP 66095-100, Belém, PA, Brazil
TOBY GARDNER
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK
RENATA PARDINI
Affiliation:
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, 101, Travessa 14, CEP 05508-090, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo-SP, Brazil
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*Correspondence: Dr Patricia Carignano Torres email: patriciactorres@gmail.com
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Summary

Identifying the drivers of bushmeat consumption and hunting is important for informing conservation strategies and recognizing challenges to human food security. However, studies often neglect the importance of landscape context, which can influence bushmeat supply and demand. Here, by quantifying bushmeat consumption and hunting in 262 households in a post-frontier region in Amazonia, we tested the hypotheses that bushmeat consumption and hunting are positively associated with two landscape characteristics: (1) forest cover, which has been shown to define game availability; and (2) remoteness, which is related to limited access to marketed meat. Bushmeat consumption was widespread but more likely in remote forested areas. Hunting was more likely in more forested areas, especially nearer to urban centres. Our findings suggest that bushmeat remains an important food source even in heavily altered forest regions and that landscape context is an important determinant of bushmeat consumption and hunting. Although people living in remote, forested areas are likely to be the most dependent on bushmeat, those living in more populous, peri-urban areas are likely the actors contributing most to total hunting effort, due to a higher probability of hunting combined with higher human population densities. This finding undermines the assumption that rural–urban migration in the tropics will deliver a much-needed reprieve for many overhunted species.

Keywords

alternative source of proteinAmazondeforestationforest productsgame availabilitylivelihoodsurban centrewildmeat
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 45 , Issue 4 , December 2018 , pp. 315 - 323
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 2017 

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Supplementary material can be found online at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0376892917000510

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