Impact of game hunting by the Kayapó of south-eastern Amazonia: implications for wildlife conservation in tropical forest indigenous reserves

2008 ◽  
pp. 287-313
Author(s):  
Carlos A. Peres ◽  
Hilton S. Nascimento
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Game Hunting ◽  
Indigenous Reserves

scholarly journals Mitochondrial DNA Phylogenetics of Black Rhinoceros in Kenya in relation to Southern Africa Population

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Elijah K. Githui ◽  
David N. Thuo ◽  
Joshua O. Amimo ◽  
Nyamu M. Njagi ◽  
Maryanne M. Gitari
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Diversity ◽  
Mitochondrial Dna ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Eastern Africa ◽  
Black Rhinoceros ◽  
Low Genetic Diversity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Eastern And Southern Africa ◽  
Game Hunting

Black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) are highly endangered due to poaching and other anthropological reasons and their protection to rebound the numbers and genetic improvement are necessary remedial measures defined by Rhino International Union of Conservation for the Nature Red List (IUCN). In Kenya black rhino numbers declined from approximately 20,000 in the 1970s to fewer than 400 in 1982. Wildlife conservation managers effected strategies to manage/breed the remaining rhinoceros populations in Eastern and Southern Africa within regional sanctuaries. This study analyzes the genetic variability of these remnant rhinoceros using Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Majority of the rhinoceros in both Kenyan and Southern Africa group are monophyletic clusters with insignificant genetic variations while some lineages are underrepresented. The Eastern Africa rhinoceros forms a distinct clade from the Sothern Africa counterpart while Tanzania population has admixtures. Tajima-D test showed that these two populations are under different selection pressure possibly due to different history of adverse anthropologic activities. Similarly, the Southern Africa rhinoceros have low genetic diversity compared to the Eastern African population due to extended periods of game hunting during Africa colonization. This study suggests that managed translocations of individual rhinoceros across the separated fragments can be applied to improve their genetic diversity.

scholarly journals Association of Pica magpies with grazing ungulates: a clue to the genus’ origins

2018 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-42
Author(s):  
Tiziano Londei
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Food Sources ◽  
Large Mammals ◽  
Wild Ungulates ◽  
Eastern Asia ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Day Range

The habits of Pica in the less man-modified of its various habitats and its similarities with the closely related Ptilostomus suggest that association with wild ungulates has been crucial in the evolution of the genus. The shape and colours of (sub-)tropical forest ancestors may have served as pre-adaptations for the association with steppe ungulates in periods of colder and drier climate in south-eastern Asia, within the present-day range of the basal form of sericea. Subsequently, through symbiosis with several ungulate species, Pica may have reached a Holarctic distribution. Retention of the ancestral traits may have permitted Pica to re-adapt to milder climates at the margins of its range, and thus produce ecologically different, though morphologically still similar, populations. Its flexible association with large mammals, mainly used as indirect food sources, may finally have led Pica to adapt to life with humans, even in largely artificial environments, provided that they still offered some short grass to forage in.

scholarly journals Impacts of wolves on rural economies from recreational small game hunting

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simen Pedersen ◽  
Per Angelstam ◽  
Michael A.D. Ferguson ◽  
Petter Wabakken ◽  
Torstein Storaas
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Game Management ◽  
Small Game ◽  
Centralized Management ◽  
Hunting Dogs ◽  
Rural Economies ◽  
The Will ◽  
Game Hunting ◽  
Sport Hunting

Abstract Centralized management of large carnivore populations in rural and remote landscapes used by local people often leads to conflicts between the objectives of wildlife conservation and rural development. We tested the hypothesis that the presence of wolves indirectly reduces landowner revenues from traditional small game hunting, and that landowner revenues are more variable closer to wolf territories. The assumed mechanism is that hunters fear that their economically and culturally valuable hunting dogs may be killed by wolves, which results in reduced hunting, and thus reduced revenues for landowners where and when wolves occur. To determine the effect of wolf presence on revenues from sport hunting, we obtained data from 1990 to 2009 on income from small game management areas, in Hedmark and Oppland Counties in Norway, as well as  locations of wolf territories. Small game management areas experienced increased sport hunting revenue with increasing distance to the closest wolf territory. Also, inter-annual variation in revenue decreased with increasing distance from wolf territories. Thus, wolf presence may reduce landowners’ revenues from small game hunting, and cause higher economic variability in rural communities. It is important to note that while the economic impacts of wolves may be compensated where governments have the will and the economic resources, the impacts on the lifestyles of rural people (e.g. hunter’s fear of losing prized dogs to wolves) will remain controversial.

scholarly journals Sympathy for Cecil: using political ecology, ecofeminism, and animal ethics to understand western attitudes toward trophy hunting

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 759-774
Author(s):  
Eric S Godoy
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Animal Ethics ◽  
Moral Community ◽  
North Americans ◽  
Trophy Hunting ◽  
Game Hunting ◽  
Big Game Hunting

This article draws from political ecology, animal ethics, and ecofeminism to examine sympathy, expressed by record-breaking donation from North Americans, for the death of Cecil the Lion. Sympathy is disclosive insofar as it reveals, relies upon, and reinforces different forms of sexual, racial, and neocolonial domination; especially when western sympathy remains ignorant of the politics and histories of the power relations that shape attitudes toward non-human animals and their status as members in a moral community. When does nature appear as something to take care of rather than take care against?Keywords: sympathy, animal ethics, ecofeminism, big-game hunting, wildlife conservation, Cecil the Lion

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