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Hunting sustainability within two eastern Amazon Extractive Reserves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2022

Milton José de Paula Open the ORCID record for Milton José de Paula [Opens in a new window] ,
Elildo AR Carvalho Jr Open the ORCID record for Elildo AR Carvalho Jr [Opens in a new window] ,
Cintia Karoline Manos Lopes ,
Reysane de Alencar Sousa ,
Emerson Luiz Pereira Maciel ,
Manoela Wariss ,
Rafael Sá Leitão Barboza ,
Francisco Chen de Araújo Braga ,
Daniely Félix-Silva  and
Carlos A Peres
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Milton José de Paula*
Affiliation:
Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Pará, Rod. Ernesto Alcyioli, Km 3 – Estrada do Forte, Altamira, PA CEP 68377-630, Brazil RedeFauna – Rede de Pesquisa em Diversidade, Conservação e Uso da Fauna da Amazônia, Manaus, Brasília, Brazil
Elildo AR Carvalho Jr
Affiliation:
RedeFauna – Rede de Pesquisa em Diversidade, Conservação e Uso da Fauna da Amazônia, Manaus, Brasília, Brazil Centro Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação de Mamíferos Carnívoros, Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade, Estrada Municipal Hisaichi Takebayashi 8600, 12952-011, Atibaia, SP CEP 12952001, Brazil Faculty of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, PO Box 5003, 1432, Ås, Norway
Cintia Karoline Manos Lopes
Affiliation:
RedeFauna – Rede de Pesquisa em Diversidade, Conservação e Uso da Fauna da Amazônia, Manaus, Brasília, Brazil
Reysane de Alencar Sousa
Affiliation:
Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Piauí, Rua Álvaro Mendes 94, Teresina, PI CEP 64000040, Brazil
Emerson Luiz Pereira Maciel
Affiliation:
Independent researcher, Altamira, PA, Brazil
Manoela Wariss
Affiliation:
Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Pará, Rua Gentil Bitencourt, Cametá, PA CEP 68400000, Brazil
Rafael Sá Leitão Barboza
Affiliation:
Programa de PosGraduação em Biodiversidade, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Rua Dom Manuel de Medeiros, Recife, PE CEP 52171900, Brazil
Francisco Chen de Araújo Braga
Affiliation:
Centro Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação de Mamíferos Carnívoros, Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade, Estrada Municipal Hisaichi Takebayashi 8600, 12952-011, Atibaia, SP CEP 12952001, Brazil
Daniely Félix-Silva
Affiliation:
RedeFauna – Rede de Pesquisa em Diversidade, Conservação e Uso da Fauna da Amazônia, Manaus, Brasília, Brazil
Carlos A Peres
Affiliation:
School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK Instituto Juruá, Rua das Papoulas 96, Manaus, Brazil
Juarez CB Pezzuti
Affiliation:
RedeFauna – Rede de Pesquisa em Diversidade, Conservação e Uso da Fauna da Amazônia, Manaus, Brasília, Brazil Núcleo de Altos Estudos Amazônicos, Universidade Federal do Pará, Rua Augusto Corrêa 01, Belém, PA CEP 66075110, Brazil
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Author for correspondence: Dr Milton José de Paula, Email: milton.depaula@ifpa.edu.br
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Summary

Subsistence hunting provides an important food source for rural populations in tropical forests but can lead to wildlife depletion. Management of wildlife resources depends on assessments of hunting sustainability. We assessed the sustainability of subsistence hunting in two Amazonian Extractive Reserves. We examined hunting data from a community-based monitoring programme conducted in 30 communities during 63 consecutive months to address temporal trends in hunting yields in terms of catch per unit of effort of all game species and the six most hunted species. We also assessed the prey profiles across different communities. Game species composition did not differ between monitored communities, and the most hunted species were Tayassu pecari, large cracids, Cuniculus paca, Mazama spp., Tapirus terrestris and Pecari tajacu. Catch per unit of effort was stable for all game species and each of the most hunted species, indicating that hunting was generally sustainable. These findings reflect the exceptionally low human population density and continuous forest cover of the study landscape, and long-term hunting sustainability and local protein acquisition will depend on maintaining these social and environmental settings. The results also show that large Sustainable Use Protected Areas can help foster sustainable game management and should thus be included in public policies.

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community-based researchgame faunaprotect areassubsistence hunting

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 49 , Issue 2 , June 2022 , pp. 90 - 98
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