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Playing in Counterpoint: Bushmeat Users and the Possibility of Alternatives. 50 pages
Author
Author	Archer, B.; Beck, J.; Douthwait, K.; Ruppert, D.
Year
Year	2003
Secondary Title
Secondary Title	Uncertain Future: the Bushmeat Crisis in Africa. All reports prepared for the Bushmeat Crisis Task Force by the Problem Solving team of the Fall
Volume
Volume
Pages
Pages	1-50
Abstract
Abstract	Bushmeat is an important source of economic and nutritional benefits to many sub-Saharan Africans particularly in rural settings (Inamdar and Cobb 1998; Ntiamoa-Baidu 1998). Current hunting pressure on wild game is immense and according to most accounts unsustainable (Bennett and Robinson 2000a). In this paper hypothetical profiles of representative bushmeat users are employed to develop criteria for the effectiveness of a bushmeat-relevant program. Analyzed users include: urban consumer (average and elite), trader, commercial hunter, and rural subsistence hunter. For many bushmeat users, certain basic criteria need to be met before they even have the option of changing their use patterns. For others, the option to change is already available, but the incentive to change is not. The following criteria were identified as necessary to give users the option and the incentive to change: available protein substitutes, a sustainability ethic, income alternatives, adequate enforcement efforts, various capital improvements (human, social, physical, financial), and institutional infrastructure development. Several bushmeat programs are then measured against these criteria. We have chosen a mixture of projects that includes short, medium, and long term approaches that fall into one of five major categories: community based natural resource management (CBNRM), animal husbandry, ecotourism, conservation payments, and protected area/multiple use management. All users’ needs are found to be inadequately addressed by the programs studied. Any effective regional conservation strategy is hypothesized to have bushmeat conservation and human-development aspects. This finding is consistent with historic trends of wildlife conservation programs. Various ‘best practices’ among the programs studied are discussed in order to formulate recommendations for future bushmeat conservation endeavors.
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