Bushmeat hunting and use in the Makira Forest, north-eastern Madagascar: a conservation and livelihoods issue / Christopher D. Golden  

Public ISBD Titre : Bushmeat hunting and use in the Makira Forest, north-eastern Madagascar: a conservation and livelihoods issue Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Christopher D. Golden, Auteur Année de publication : 2009 Langues : Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) Catégories : LEMURIENS LEMURIENS:Menaces et Pressions Mots-clés : CRYPTOPROCTA FEROX  EULEMUR ALBIFRONS  HAPALEMUR GRISEUS  INDRI INDRI  LEMURS  MADAGASCAR  SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT  VARECIA VARIEGATA Résumé : In the 2003 Durban Vision the Malagasy government committed to tripling the amount of protected areas in Madagascar by 2009. This extensive expansion needs to involve an assessment of the potential impacts on the people who rely on forest resources for subsistence. Wildlife for human consumption (bushmeat) is one such resource that has received great attention on mainland Africa but has largely been ignored in Madagascar until recently. In terms of biomass, hunting in Madagascar appears to be on a lesser scale compared to areas of mainland Africa. However, because of the life-history characteristics associated with hunted primate and carnivore species in Madagascar even small-scale hunting is a major threat to long-term conservation. In this study I used semi-structured interviews to quantify annual rates of bushmeat harvest in 14 villages adjacent to the Makira Forest in north-eastern Madagascar. Interviews revealed that 23 mammal species were hunted for consumption, providing a new insight into the scale and frequency of bushmeat use. Harvest data and life-history information were sufficient to allow quantitative assessments of sustainability for four species of lemur (black and white ruffed lemur Varecia variegata, indri Indri indri, eastern bamboo lemur Hapalemur griseus and white-fronted brown lemur Eulemur albifrons) and a species of the carnivore family Eupleridae (fossa Cryptoprocta ferox). Model results suggest hunting of these species is probably unsustainable. This research presents clear evidence that hunting is a major conservation and livelihoods issue in Madagascar and needs to be considered in the planning stages of protected area development to address better the needs of local people. Titre du périodique : Oryx Volume : 43 (3): 386-392 En ligne : DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605309000131 Bushmeat hunting and use in the Makira Forest, north-eastern Madagascar: a conservation and livelihoods issue [texte imprimé] / Christopher D. Golden, Auteur . - 2009. Langues : Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) Catégories : LEMURIENS LEMURIENS:Menaces et Pressions Mots-clés : CRYPTOPROCTA FEROX  EULEMUR ALBIFRONS  HAPALEMUR GRISEUS  INDRI INDRI  LEMURS  MADAGASCAR  SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT  VARECIA VARIEGATA Résumé : In the 2003 Durban Vision the Malagasy government committed to tripling the amount of protected areas in Madagascar by 2009. This extensive expansion needs to involve an assessment of the potential impacts on the people who rely on forest resources for subsistence. Wildlife for human consumption (bushmeat) is one such resource that has received great attention on mainland Africa but has largely been ignored in Madagascar until recently. In terms of biomass, hunting in Madagascar appears to be on a lesser scale compared to areas of mainland Africa. However, because of the life-history characteristics associated with hunted primate and carnivore species in Madagascar even small-scale hunting is a major threat to long-term conservation. In this study I used semi-structured interviews to quantify annual rates of bushmeat harvest in 14 villages adjacent to the Makira Forest in north-eastern Madagascar. Interviews revealed that 23 mammal species were hunted for consumption, providing a new insight into the scale and frequency of bushmeat use. Harvest data and life-history information were sufficient to allow quantitative assessments of sustainability for four species of lemur (black and white ruffed lemur Varecia variegata, indri Indri indri, eastern bamboo lemur Hapalemur griseus and white-fronted brown lemur Eulemur albifrons) and a species of the carnivore family Eupleridae (fossa Cryptoprocta ferox). Model results suggest hunting of these species is probably unsustainable. This research presents clear evidence that hunting is a major conservation and livelihoods issue in Madagascar and needs to be considered in the planning stages of protected area development to address better the needs of local people. Titre du périodique : Oryx Volume : 43 (3): 386-392 En ligne : DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605309000131

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A National-Level Assessment of Lemur Hunting Pressure in Madagascar / Cortini Borgerson  

Public ISBD Titre : A National-Level Assessment of Lemur Hunting Pressure in Madagascar Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Cortini Borgerson, Auteur ; Steig E. Johnson, Auteur ; Emma Hall, Auteur ; Kerry A. Brown, Auteur ; Pamela R. Narvaez-Torres, Auteur ; Be Jean Rodolph Rasolofoniaina, Auteur ; Be Noel Razafindrapaoly, Auteur ; Samuel D. Merson, Auteur ; Katherine E.T. Thompson, Auteur ; Sheila M Holmes, Auteur ; Edward E. Louis Jr, Auteur ; Christopher D. Golden, Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Langues : Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) Catégories : LEMURIENS LEMURIENS:Menaces et Pressions Mots-clés : BUSHMEAT  HUNTING  LEMURS  MADAGASCAR  PRIMATE  WIDLLIFE Résumé : Hunting is one of the greatest threats to nonhuman primates worldwide. Despite Madagascar’s status as a primate mega-diversity country, a critical lack of information on the hunting of lemurs at the national scale persists. Here, we synthesize the current state of knowledge of the annual rates of household-level lemur hunting near ten protected areas, representing most ecoregions in Madagascar. We examine geographic and taxonomic variation in lemur hunting, including an analysis of hunting relative to species density, extinction risk, and intrinsic ecological characteristics of species. We found that lemurs are commonly hunted across Madagascar; the rural households in our study ate, on average, more than one lemur each year, or a median of 4.1% of the lemur species’ population size where densities are known. However, this pressure varied significantly across sites and species, reaching its highest levels in the northeastern rainforest region. While hunting levels are concerning for numerous threatened species, hunting pressure was driven primarily by species availability, and among ecological traits, small body size was related to increased hunting; however, conservation status showed no such relationship. This first national-level assessment of hunting, including one-third of Madagascar’s lemur species and more than a tenth of the world’s primates, identifies regional variation and lemur taxa at acute risk from hunting—important steps toward developing targeted strategies to conserve one of the world’s most threatened groups of vertebrates. Titre du périodique : International Journal of Primatology Volume : 43: 92-113 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-021-00215-5 A National-Level Assessment of Lemur Hunting Pressure in Madagascar [texte imprimé] / Cortini Borgerson, Auteur ; Steig E. Johnson, Auteur ; Emma Hall, Auteur ; Kerry A. Brown, Auteur ; Pamela R. Narvaez-Torres, Auteur ; Be Jean Rodolph Rasolofoniaina, Auteur ; Be Noel Razafindrapaoly, Auteur ; Samuel D. Merson, Auteur ; Katherine E.T. Thompson, Auteur ; Sheila M Holmes, Auteur ; Edward E. Louis Jr, Auteur ; Christopher D. Golden, Auteur . - 2021. Langues : Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) Catégories : LEMURIENS LEMURIENS:Menaces et Pressions Mots-clés : BUSHMEAT  HUNTING  LEMURS  MADAGASCAR  PRIMATE  WIDLLIFE Résumé : Hunting is one of the greatest threats to nonhuman primates worldwide. Despite Madagascar’s status as a primate mega-diversity country, a critical lack of information on the hunting of lemurs at the national scale persists. Here, we synthesize the current state of knowledge of the annual rates of household-level lemur hunting near ten protected areas, representing most ecoregions in Madagascar. We examine geographic and taxonomic variation in lemur hunting, including an analysis of hunting relative to species density, extinction risk, and intrinsic ecological characteristics of species. We found that lemurs are commonly hunted across Madagascar; the rural households in our study ate, on average, more than one lemur each year, or a median of 4.1% of the lemur species’ population size where densities are known. However, this pressure varied significantly across sites and species, reaching its highest levels in the northeastern rainforest region. While hunting levels are concerning for numerous threatened species, hunting pressure was driven primarily by species availability, and among ecological traits, small body size was related to increased hunting; however, conservation status showed no such relationship. This first national-level assessment of hunting, including one-third of Madagascar’s lemur species and more than a tenth of the world’s primates, identifies regional variation and lemur taxa at acute risk from hunting—important steps toward developing targeted strategies to conserve one of the world’s most threatened groups of vertebrates. Titre du périodique : International Journal of Primatology Volume : 43: 92-113 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-021-00215-5

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