By Kirsten M. Silvius, Richard E. Bodmer, Jose M. V. Fragoso
This booklet studies natural world administration and conservation in critical and South the US. The booklet discusses the threats to biodiversity during this sector together with habitat fragmentation, improvement, ranching, tourism in addition to searching. The ebook comprises contributions from many neighborhood Latin American authors who paintings there day-by-day and are uncovered to the varied and certain concerns that must be taken into consideration whilst speaking approximately conservation in relevant and South the United States. (5/1/05)
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On the basis of land area and of documented levels of species diversity in Amazonia, these lands hold within their boundaries a high proportion of the world’s biodiversity, most of it as yet unstudied. Hunting, however, can locally reduce or eliminate vertebrate populations on indigenous lands, especially during the transition from subsistence to market economies, from nomadic to sedentary settlement patterns and from traditional hunting technologies to the use of guns (Bodmer, Fang, and Moya 1988a; Robinson and Redford 1991; Vickers 1991; Redford and Stearman 1993; Peres 1994; Bodmer, Eisenberg, and Redford 1997; Auzel and Wilkie 2000; Eaves and Ruggiero 2000; Fragoso, Silvius, and Prada 2000; Hill and Padwe 2000; Leeuwenberg and Robinson 2000; Mena et al.
The project strove to accomplish these two main goals through the diagnosis of hunting and its impact on wildlife and through the generation of strategies to protect species, always reconciling the needs of animal species with the needs of the people. In this particular case [20] Conceptual Basis for Wildlife Management Strategies we strove for the conservation of species that have great symbolic and dietary importance for local indigenous peoples as well as of species of great ecological importance.
2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Long-term conservation is feasible if it is taken up as a social decision in which local stakeholders put forth their own solutions, rather than having them imposed by the state. Natural resource management strategies must be planned and implemented in a joint manner, taking into account the wildlife management solutions of the local people, of Western science, and of state policies. The interaction between western scientific and local knowledge should be pursued and explored.