People in Nature: Wildlife Conservation in South and Central AmericaColumbia University Press, 2004 - 463 pages This book reviews wildlife management and conservation in Central and South America. The book discusses the threats to biodiversity in this area including habitat fragmentation, development, ranching, tourism as well as hunting. The book contains contributions from many local Latin American authors who work there daily and are exposed to the numerous and unique issues that need to be taken into account when talking about conservation in Central and South America. |
Contents
IntroductionWildlife Conservation and Management in South and Central | 1 |
Conceptual Basis for the Selection of Wildlife Management Strategies by | 11 |
Bridging the Gap Between Western Scientific and Traditional Indigenous Wild | 37 |
Increasing Local Stakeholder Participation in Wildlife Management Projects | 50 |
CommunityBased Wildlife Management in the Gran Chaco Bolivia | 59 |
Historical Trends Current Status and Factors | 76 |
Fisheries Management in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve | 99 |
Hunting Effort as a Tool for CommunityBased Wildlife Management | 123 |
Niche Partitioning Among Gray Brocket Deer Pampas Deer and Cattle in | 257 |
Ecology and Conservation of the Jaguar Panthera onca in Iguaçu National | 271 |
A LongTerm Study of WhiteLipped Peccary Tayassu pecari Population Fluc | 286 |
Evaluating the Sustainability of Hunting in the Neotropics | 299 |
Hunting Sustainability of Ungulate Populations in the Lacandon Forest | 324 |
Human Use and Conservation of Economically Important Birds in Seasonally | 344 |
Patterns of Use and Hunting of Turtles in the Mamirauá Sustainable Develop | 362 |
Fisheries Fishing Effort and Fish Consumption in the PacayaSamiria National | 378 |
Economic Incentives for Sustainable Community Management of Fishery | 139 |
Evaluating Man | 155 |
Captive Breeding Programs as an Alternative for Wildlife Conservation | 171 |
Economic Analysis of Wildlife Use in the Peruvian Amazon | 191 |
Abundance Spatial Distribution and Human Pressure on Orinoco Crocodiles | 227 |
A Case | 240 |
Implications of the Spatial Structure of Game Populations for the Sustainability | 390 |
Current Aspects and | 400 |
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Page 413 - Alvard, M. 2000. The impact of traditional subsistence hunting and trapping on prey populations: Data from Wana horticulturalists of upland central Sulawesi, Indonesia. In JG Robinson and EL Bennett, eds, Hunting for Sustainability in Tropical Forests, pp.