Robert Nasi

Driss Ezzine De Blas

Jean-Claude Nguinguiri

Cet ouvrage présente un état des lieux, le plus complet et objectif possible, de ce qui s'est passé lors de la dernière décennie en Afrique Centrale et essaie d'apporter des éléments de réponse aux questions suivantes: où en est-on avec l'aménagement forestier et la gestion durable dans le Bassin du Congo ? A la lumière des premières expériences, quelle lecture critique peut-on faire de la "démarche d'aménagement forestier" telle qu'elle existe actuellement ? Quelles améliorations pourrait-on lui apporter ?

Exploitation et gestion durable des forêts en Afrique Centrale

Ian Cummins

Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez

Alexander Barnard

The availability, consumption and trade of bushmeat is highly variable across time and space. This paper examines how the bushmeat market in Napo, Ecuador has evolved alongside a variety of interconnected factors including local game scarcity, increased law enforcement, infrastructure development and increasing urbanization. Much of the human occupied landscape has already undergone extinction filters with only the most hunting resistant species still present. However, Napo maintains significant areas of largely intact forest which are not hunted due distance from roads and rough topography, which may serve as source habitat in the future. Two modes of hunting are identified both of which have very different implications for conservationists and for rural livelihoods. Supplemental or sustenance hunting generally focuses on more abundant species and thus occurs primarily within local agroforestry systems or nearby patches of forests. Commercial hunting meanwhile takes place within larger catchments and is focused on large-bodied species, which are especially susceptible to hunting pressure. Efforts by the Ecuadorian government to interdict bushmeat have largely driven the trade underground making it difficult to estimate current consumption rates. Demand generated by traditional Kichwa wedding parties remain a significant driver of commercial hunting. Policy recommendations include a greater focus on species-level game management, greater education about endangered species and more emphasis on using conservation programs to create corridors between protected areas. Due to the relatively small size of most communal forest areas, wildlife management is especially difficult for wide-ranging species and conservation efforts should focus on common pool resource management.

Agouti on the wedding menu: Bushmeat harvest, consumption and trade in a post-frontier region of the Ecuadorian Amazon

Cristina Adams

Fernando Trujillo

Nathalie van Vliet

Maria Paula Quiceno Mesa

Daniel Cruz Antia

Carla Morsello

Flavia Mori

Blanca Yagüe

Sara Hernandez

Tamara Bonilla

Leady Tellez

Lindon Neves de Aquino

Jessica Moreno

Tatiana Schor

Michael De Oliveira Princi

Enio Haiden

Bushmeat use in urban areas of the Amazon has received very little attention by NGOs, and environmental and research institutions, either because it is assumed that urban consumption is negligible and bound to disappear, or because of the illegality of the trade, which makes it difficult to assess. Our study shows animal protein consumption moves along a rural-to-urban gradient, with a decrease of fish and bushmeat consumption and an increase in consumption of industrial chicken and canned meats as we move to more urban areas. The nutritional transition that occurs alongside urbanization is also characterized by a decrease in both dietary diversity and the nutritional value of the food consumed. Despite the fact that bushmeat is not frequently consumed in urban areas as compared with rural settings, it is still consumed by urban households, particularly for cultural reasons. In fact, the assumed demise of urban bushmeat consumption has not taken place. Bushmeat is provided to urban consumers either through a well-organized and lucrative trade chain from the hunter to markets and restaurants, or through a ruralurban non-monetary flow of exchange, particularly among indigenous householders who have relatives living in forest areas. Our results call for more attention to be paid to the role that forests continue to play in providing food and income in urban areas of the Amazon. We also call for the need to invest in preservation and sustainable use strategies in the Amazon, to ensure biodiversity conservation while maintaining the diversity of roles that wildlife plays among rural and urban households in the Amazon.

Demise or persistence?

Bushmeat in the tri-frontier region of Brazil, Peru and Colombia

Nathalie Van Vliet

In Tropical and sub-tropical Range States, wildmeat is an important source of nutrition and income, but current extraction levels of vulnerable taxa are considered unsustainable. As such, wildmeat use is often seen as problematic for wildlife conservation. From a development perspective, balancing the nutritional needs of people who depend on wildmeat with biodiversity conservation is the greatest challenge. But why can’t wildmeat use be seen as an ally for conservation? Most analysis of wildmeat use have framed the problem around a rather simplistic paradigm where wildmeat use is unsustainable and should therefore be reduced or stopped to ensure wildlife conservation. Indeed, until the early start of this century most research efforts have been rooted in the biological disciplines, focused on quantifying the magnitude of the trade and measuring its level of destruction on wildlife species and ecosystems. This most often led to the institution of prohibitive policies intended for the protection of the wild resources, such as separating people from wildlife, expanding tightly-managed protected area networks, blanket criminalization of wild meat hunting, and increasing enforcement and interdiction measures. More recently, based on the elucidation of the role of wild meat in human livelihoods, some practitioners defend the idea that consumptive uses of wildlife are the only way to save it in the long run.

Shifting the Paradigms for Sustainable Wildmeat Use in Tropical and Sub-Tropical Regions

Liliana Vanegas

François Sandrin

Daniel Cornelis

Sebastien Le Bel

Endamana Dominique

Ondoua Ondoua Gevais

Nicolas Gaidet

Christian Fargeot

Edouard Essiane

Jean-Charles Sicard

Marie Gely

Guillaume Lescuyer

Alain Billand

Camille Jepang

Idriss Ayaya

Lucile Broussolle

Jonas Muhindo

Fructueux Houngbegnon

Rémy Fagot

Simon Arnaud Mve Ba Zibe

Etienne Granier

Arnaud Kidiba

Fabrice Yapi

Dorielle Ngohouani

Les viandes danimaux sauvages terrestres ou semi-terrestres, dénommées « viandes de brousse », sont une composante essentielle de la sécurité alimentaire et des moyens de subsistance dans les zones rurales dAfrique Centrale. Cependant, la pression croissante de la chasse a des effets tangibles sur la faune et est susceptible davoir des incidences à long terme sur les écosystèmes forestiers. Il devient donc nécessaire de sassurer que lutilisation de la faune se pratique dans les limites de la durabilité. Certaines expériences pratiques nous montrent que plus les communautés locales sont impliquées dans le développement du processus de gestion, plus les chances de succès sont élevées. Afin de mettre en place un processus de gestion participatif de la faune, un diagnostic de létat initial simpose. Ce document sadresse aux gestionnaires qui souhaitent établir un diagnostic préalable à la mise en oeuvre de la gestion communautaire de la chasse. Il présente les outils d´évaluation de limportance de la faune dans les modes de vie locaux et les règles de gestion en place, les outils de cartographie du terroir de chasse, danalyse des pratiques de chasse et le suivi des prélèvements par les chasseurs, lanalyse des ressources fauniques, lanalyse de la consommation de protéines au niveau local, lanalyse de la filière, ainsi que quelques conseils pour la restitution des résultats. Il présente le principe général des méthodes et les illustre avec des exemples tirés du projet « Gestion durable du secteur de la faune sauvage et de la viande de brousse en Afrique Centrale ».

Guide pratique et exemples d’application en Afrique centrale

Diagnostic approfondi pour la mise en oeuvre de la gestion communautaire de la chasse villageoise

Peter Cronkleton

Douglas Sheil

Manuel R. Guariguata

Carmen García-Fernández

Cristina Herrero-Jáuregui

Ousseynou Ndoye

Verina Ingram

Hacia un manejo múltiple en bosques tropicales : Consideraciones sobre la compatibilidad del manejo de madera y productos forestales no maderables

E. Meijaard

David Augeri

Barry Rosenbaum

Djoko Iskandar

Titiek Setyawati

Martjan Lammertink

Ike Rachmatika

Anna Wong

Tonny Soehartono

Scott Stanley

Timothy O’Brien

This book presents a technical review of ecological and life history information on a range of Bornean wildlife species, aimed at identifying what makes these species sensitive to timber harvesting practices and associated impacts. It addresses three audiences: 1) those involved in assessing and regulating timber harvesting activities in Southeast Asia, 2) those involved in trying to achieve conservation goals in the region, and 3) those undertaking research to improve multipurpose forest management. This book shows that forest management can be improved in many simple ways to allow timber extraction and wildlife conservation to be more compatible than under current practices. The recommendations can also be valuable to the many governmental and non-governmental organisations promoting sustainable forest management and eco-labelling. Finally, it identifies a number of shortcomings and gaps in knowledge, which the hope can interest the scientific community and promote further research. This review is, an important scientific step toward understanding and improving sustainable forestry practices for long-term biodiversity conservation. Even in the short term, however, significant improvements can be made to improve both conservation and the efficiency of forest management, and there is no need to delay action due to a perceived lack of information. In the longer term it is expected that the recommendations from this review will be implemented, and that further research will continue to help foster an acceptable balance among the choices needed to maintain healthy wildlife populations and biodiversity in a productive forest estate.

Reconciling Wildlife Conservation and Production Forestry in Indonesian Borneo

Life After Logging

Robert Nasi

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