ANTH 311 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Sustainable Forest Management, Bushmeat, Ecotourism
4 Dec 2017
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Threat to primates is habitat disturbance, although hunting pressure and the bushmeat market are also important. As humans expand into primate habitats, the risk of disease transfer between humans and nonhuman primates and other negative impacts on primate health are also growing concerns. Conservation policies include various efforts at working with, not against, local people, and trying to find sustainable forest management strategies and economic incentives such as eco-tourism to motivate local people to protect their local forests and primate populations. Improved public awareness can also help for example, hunting and butchering primates exposes humans to the possibility of disease transmission from nonhuman primates to primates (such as aids), and this awareness may reduce hunting pressure. Box 12. 1 features the work of conservation international, headed by primatologist russ. Mittermeier, as an example of an ngo (nongovernmental organization) working to protect primates and their habitats around the world.
