ZOOLOGY 651 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Immunosuppression, Ice Age, Wildlife Trade
15 Sep 2016
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Hunting for consensus: reconciling bushmeat harvest, conservation, and development policy in west and central. Africa the development of bushmeat policy is ultimately a matter for governments within nations where wildlife is harvested for food. Wildlife species that are scarce and breed slowly are at risk of local extinction. Level of extralocal demand is greater than the forests can supply fear that wildlife populations will be quickly depleted to meet demand. Endemic species with restricted ranges is challenging because loss of local populations could have global significance. There are differences in the productivity of different ecological systems. Wildlife hunting is usually an unregulated open access resource the poor are most vulnerable to three kinds of changes: depletion, degradation, and shock. Bushmeat plays a role as a safety net against these short-term livelihood crises in many areas, unsustainable exploitation of bushmeat is the result of the failure of development policies crisis encompasses issues of sectoral and intergenerational equity.
