Comanagement of Primate Hunting in Amazonian Indigenous Reserves

Author(s):  
Christopher A. Shaffer ◽  
Marissa S. Milstein ◽  
Phillip Suse ◽  
Elisha Marawanaru ◽  
Charakura Yukuma
Keyword(s):  
2020 ◽  
pp. 711-734
Author(s):  
Anthony Stocks ◽  
Manuela Ruiz Reyes ◽  
Carlos Andrés Rios-Franco

This paper presents the work of the WCS with the A'i Indigenous people in Colombia as part of a USAID-funded project between 2009 and 2011. The project had several dimensions that make it unusual. Unlike conventional “counter-mapping” attempts to represent Indigenous land claims as a counter to government representations, the project sought to create maps and analyses that represent prior land assignments to the A'i by the Colombian government itself. These land assignments were not supported by geo-referenced maps and, in the case of Indigenous “reserves” the original boundary markers were only known to the oldest of the A'i people. Analysis of forest cover in lands controlled by the A'i reveal that they are highly protective of forests; indeed their collective identity is strongly related to forest cover. The process described also illustrates the difficult position many Indigenous Amazonians face in an era of drug wars, uncontrolled colonization, and in the case of Colombia, the lack of follow-up to the political and social measures envisioned in the 1991 Constitution.


2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolás Idrobo ◽  
Daniel Mejía ◽  
Ana María Tribin

AbstractThe increase in the international price of commodities after the international financial crisis in 2008 produced a gold rush in the Colombian economy, making legal and illegal mining a very profitable and attractive business. The increase in the illegal exploitation of metals like gold has exacerbated violence in municipalities with an abundance of such minerals. Gold is believed to be a new engine in the Colombian conflict. This paper documents the phenomenon and quantifies the causal impact that the gold boom has had on indicators of violence such as homicides, forced displacement and massacres. We use the location of national parks, indigenous reserves and geochemical anomalies associated with the presence of gold mines as instruments for illegal mining in order to disentangle the causal effect of illegal mining on violence. By law, it is very difficult to get licenses for the extraction of gold in parks and indigenous reserves, and this might be a factor increasing the prevalence of illegal mining activities in municipalities with these features. In order to have time variation in our instruments, we interact geographical features associated with the presence of gold and illegal gold mining (which vary only at the municipal level) with the international price of gold. Our estimates indicate that the rise of illegal gold mining has caused a statistically significant increase in violence, as measured with the homicide rate and the victims of massacres. However, we do not find a significant causal effect of illegal gold mining on forced displacement. Our interpretation is that the increase in the profitability of illegal mining activities has sparked a dispute over territorial control between illegal armed groups in order to monopolize the extraction of the precious minerals. Nevertheless, illegal mining is a labor intensive activity, and this may have counteracted the incentives of illegal armed groups to displace local populations from their land.


2021 ◽  
pp. 169-199
Author(s):  
Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen ◽  
Lucas Artur Brasil Manchineri

This article looks at the land protection efforts by the Manxineru, whose lands are affected by numerous actors: state agencies, enterprises and transnational mega-extraction projects. We draw especially from the experiences, activities, and articulation of the Manxineru in protection of the land for the Yine Hosha Hajene (Mascho-Piro), their kin living in voluntary isolation, who circulate more in the Manxineru’s demarcated territory in the Brazilian-Peruvian border area. The article presents Manxineru’s key land protection practices that have been strengthening the social networks of different actors as a go-between with other Indigenous group and authorities of the dominant society, as well as managing better their own forest resource use, gathering economies, and hunting practices for healthy relations of human-environment assemblage. Indigenous knowledge and perspectives for the protection of ancestral land, beyond the borders of the state-set Indigenous reserves and protected areas, have become crucial in creating new governance models. By these methods, the Manxineru have managed to cope with differing economic interests and values in living that oppose and ignore their human-environment relationality and interactions. Yet, as we will point out, the mosaic of different Indigenous areas and conservation still need the implementation of state protective activities by a variety of governmental actors.


Author(s):  
Helbert Medeiros Prado ◽  
Louis Carlos Forline ◽  
Renato Kipnis

Indigenous Reserves have played an indispensable role in maintaining forest areas in the Neotropics. In the Amazon there is a clear correlation between these reserves and the presence of forest cover; however, the simple presence of uninterrupted vegetation is no guarantee for the conservation of biodiversity, especially where hunting is practiced. This study describes hunting practices among the Awá-Guajá people from 1993 through 1994, also identifying sociocultural, technological, and demographic changes that have influenced their resource acquisition strategies over the last two decades. The data was obtained through ethnographic fieldwork, recording 78 days of foraging returns, with follow-up visits through 2010. This work provides useful information for an effective diachronic analysis of hunting in this community, by revealing foraging patterns of the early to mid-1990s, and describing community transformations over the last two decades in this locale.


Author(s):  
Magnus Course

This book blends convincing historical analysis with sophisticated contemporary theory in this ethnography of the Mapuche people of southern Chile. Based on many years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book takes readers to the indigenous reserves where many Mapuche have been forced to live since the beginning of the twentieth century. In addition to accounts of the intimacies of everyday kinship and friendship, the book also offers the first complete ethnographic analyses of the major social events of contemporary rural Mapuche life—eluwün funerals, the ritual sport of palin, and the great ngillatun fertility ritual. The volume includes a glossary of terms in Mapudungun. The book explores the ways rural Mapuche people in one part of southern Chile create social relations, and are in turn themselves products of such relations.


2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedito Domingues do Amaral

This article aimed to describe the subsistence fisheries of traditional populations of three ethnic groups, one Ashaninka and two Kaxinawá, lying on the banks of the River Breu. Initially, monitors were trained to fill logbooks with data from fisheries of the villages during an annual cycle (august/1995 august/1996). Based on these data, it was realized an inventory of the most common fish species caught as well as one about the fishing environment. The following results were obtained: i) Indians prefer to use pools, locally known as "poços", for fishing; ii) the most common caught species are the "mandis" (35%, Pimelodidae), armored catfishes (Loricariidae), specially Hypostomus sp. (25%), the "curimatá" (9%, Prochilodus sp.) and the "saburus" (8%, Curimatidae), among others; iii) the fishing gears that lead to a high rate of fishing are the native "tingui", nets and bow and arrows; iv) fisheries are more intensive during summer; v) the fishing effort and their associated factors statistically significant in predicting the catches in the Indian Reserve were f1 = number of fishermen, f2 = (number of fishermen*total time devoted to fishing), f3 = [(number of fishermen)*(total time devoted to fishing)-(the time displacement)] and the factor villages and fishing gears; vi) although almost all the fisheries are done by walking to the fishing places, catches increase when paddle boats are used; and vii) the most active fishermen belong to Kaxinawá tribe.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (57) ◽  
pp. 442
Author(s):  
Angélica Ferreira ROSA ◽  
Eliar SZANIAWSKI

RESUMOObjetivo: O objetivo deste artigo é comprovar que a reserva indígena é indispensável para a preservação cultural, social e religiosa das tribos, pois está atrelada à proteção do habitat como garantia de seus costumes, credos e tradições, restando à Constituição de 1988 garantir o amparo às tribos indígenas com o uso dessas reservas.Metodologia: O estudo foi baseado em uma pesquisa bibliográfica e legislativa das Constituições de 1934 e 1988, bem como no   posicionamento do Supremo Tribunal Federal,  contido na Súmula nº. 650.Resultados:  O presente artigo demonstrou que os trabalhadores passaram a pressionar e manifestar-se para mudar o Estado brasileiro por intermédio de uma reforma agrária que gerou, em 1964, a edição do Estatuto da Terra. Assim como os movimentos pela terra, o Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) proporcionou indiretamente, em 1984,  a positivação da “função social da propriedade” na Constituição de 1988, nas leis agrárias (como a Lei 8.629/1993) e nas matérias infraconstitucionais pertinentes à terra.Contribuições: O estudo contribuiu para  demonstrar que o homem branco não consegue compreender a dimensão e a importância em manter-se as terras protegidas; constata-se  que a observância do termo “uso tradicional” utilizado na  Constituição de 1988 prejudica as comunidades indígenas, o que torna essa possibilidade de uso um direito não efetivo, permanecendo a discussão de como essas comunidades podem explorar as terras. Algumas autoridades defendem que esse uso é possível, mediante a assistência indispensável dos órgãos de fiscalização; no entanto, busca-se asseverar que legalmente é direito dos indígenas usar seu habitat, afirmando-se que é sua faculdade a exploração dessas terras, a título de  função social da reserva indígena.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Xamãs; homem branco; ouro canibal; reservas indígenas; proteção. ABSTRACTObjective: To prove that the indigenous reserve is indispensable for the cultural, social and religious preservation of the tribes, as it is linked to the protection of the habitat as a guarantee of their customs, creeds and traditions, being an obligation of the Constitution of 1988 to guarantee the protection of indigenous tribes through the use of these reserves.Methodology: The study was based on a bibliographic and legislative research of the Constitutions of 1934 and 1988, as well as on the position of the Supreme Court contained in Precedent no. 650.Results: The present article demonstrated that the workers started to press and manifest themselves to change the Brazilian State through an agrarian reform that generated in 1964 the edition of the Earth Statute. Like the land movements, the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) indirectly provided in 1984 the enactment of the “social function of property” in the Constitution of 1988, the agrarian laws (such as Law No. 8,629/1993) and relevant non-constitutional matters relating to land.Contributions: The study has shown that the white man cannot understand the scale and importance of maintaining protected lands; the observance of the term “traditional use” used in the Constitution of 1988 is detrimental to indigenous communities, which makes this possibility of using an ineffective right, and there remains a discussion of how these communities can exploit land. Some authorities argue that such use is possible through the indispensable assistance of the supervisory bodies; however, it seeks to assert that it is legally the right of indigenous people to use their habitat, stating that it is their faculty to exploit these lands as a social function of the indigenous reserve.KEYWORDS: Shamans; white man; cannibal gold; indigenous reserves; protection.


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