Hunting for Sustainability in Tropical Forests

Table of contents

• Hunting for Sustainability in Tropical Forests *
• Title Page *
• Contributing Authors v
• Contents xi
• Foreword xv
• Preface xix
• 1 - Hunting for the Snark 1
• Part I - Biological Limits to Sustainability *
• 2 - Carrying Capacity Limits to Sustainable Hunting in Tropical Forests 13
• 3 - Evaluating the Impact and Sustainability of Subsistence Hunting at Multiple Amazonian Forest Sites 31
• 4 - The Sustainability of Current Hunting Practices by the Huaorani 57
• 5 - Sustainability of Aché Hunting in the Mbaracayu Reserve, Paraguay 79
• 6 - Impact and Sustainability of Indigenous Hunting in the Ituri Forest, Congo-Zaire: a Comparison of Unhunted and Hunted Duiker Populations 106
• 7 - Threatened Mammals, Subsistence Harvesting, and High Human Population Densities: a Recipe for Disaster? 154
• 8 - Hunted Animals in Bioko Island, West Africa: Sustainability and Future 168
• 9 - Differential Vulnerability of Large Birds and Mammals to Hunting in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and the Outlook for the Future 199
• 10 - The Impact of Traditional Subsistence Hunting and Trapping on Prey Populations: Data from Wana Horticulturalists of Upland Central Sulawesi, Indonesia 214
• Part II - Sociocultural Context Influencing Sustainability *
• 11 - A Pound of Flesh: Social Change and Modernization as Factors in Hunting Sustainability among Neotropical Indigenous Societies 233
• 12 - Wildlife Conservation and Game Harvest by Maya Hunters in Quintana Roo, Mexico 251
• 13 - The Sustainability of Subsistence Hunting by the Sirionó Indians of Bolivia 267
• 14 - Cable Snares and Nets in the Central African Republic 282
• 15 - Saving Borneo's Bacon: the Sustainability of Hunting in Sarawak and Sabah 305
• 16 - Agta Hunting and Sustainability of Resource Use in Northeastern Luzon, Philippines 325
• Part III - Institutional Capacity for Management *
• 17 - Hunting for an Answer: Is Local Hunting Compatible with Large Mammal Conservation in India? 339
• 18 - Enhancing the Sustainability of Duiker Hunting through Community Participation and Controlled Access in the LobéKé Region of Southeastern Cameroon 356
• 19 - Traditional Management of Hunting by a Xavante Community in Central Brazil: the Search for Sustainability 375
• 20 - Community-Based Comanagement of Wildlife in the Peruvian Amazon 395
• Part IV - Economic Influences on Sustainability *
• 21 - Wildlife Use in Northern Congo: Hunting in a Commercial Logging Concession 413
• 22 - Socioeconomics and the Sustainability of Hunting in the Forests of Northern Congo (Brazzaville) 427
• 23 - Impact of Subsistence Hunting in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and Conservation Options 455
• 24 - The Trade in Wildlife in North Sulawesi, Indonesia 473
• Part V - Synthesis *
• 25 - Hunting for Sustainability: the Start of a Synthesis 499
• Appendix - Calculating Maximum Sustainable Harvests and Percentage Offtakes 521
• References 525
• Index 573

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