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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"wild meat"”.
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Pangolin Exploitation and Wild Meat Hunting in Nigeria
… addresses these gaps primarily by studying wild meat hunting and use, as pangolins frequently appear in hunting records. I focus on Nigeria, a hub in international pangolin trafficking. Most of my work uses data I collected during three years of fieldwork in the Cross River Forest landscape, …
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Identifying and understanding consumers of wild animal products in Hanoi, Vietnam: implications for conservation management
… is an established thoroughfare for illegal wildlife trade, and rapidly growing urban prosperity is increasing domestic demand for wild animal products. Consumer-targeted interventions, including awareness campaigns and social marketing, and supply-side approaches such as wildlife farming to …
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Conservation, Consumption, and Livelihoods: Contradictions in Conservation Projects and Audiences in Vietnam
… conservation organisations and consumers of wild animal products in Vietnam. Using semi-structured interviews across social worlds, this thesis shows the changing ways people relate to conservation projects and wild animal products. I argue that attempts to change consumer behaviours for …
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Bats as Bushmeat in Ghana
… three quarters of zoonoses originate in wildlife (Jones et al., 2008). One of the most common sources of human-wildlife contact is through hunting wild animals for food. Researchers have estimated that western and central Africans alone harvest five million tons of bushmeat annually (Fa …
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Fishing and hunting in the Amazon floodplain : linkages among biodiversity conservation, rural livelihoods and food security
Billions of people rely on wild meat (wild fish and bushmeat) for their livelihood and food security, but unsustainable harvesting is causing pan-tropic defaunation. In addition to the decline of prey populations, many harvest-dependent societies in these regions are witnessing major social and …
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Developing novel methodological approaches to understand the harvest and conservation of Neotropical wildlife
… that urban consumption and commercial trade of wild-meat may be widespread, presenting an important threat to Neotropical biodiversity. Yet adequate regional data is scarce. Subsequently the first two data chapters of this thesis examine two approaches that could provide important insights into …
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Investigating Access to Wildlife and Other Natural Resources in the Urbanizing Amazon
… chapter examined the prevalence and quantity of wildmeat consumption, barter trade, and monetary trade across rural, peri-urban, and urban areas in the Brazilian Amazon. Through an indirect questioning technique, we surveyed 782 randomly selected households in Manaus and Carauari. We revealed …