Declining Use of Wild Resources by Indigenous Peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon.

ABSTRACT: Wild product harvesting by forest-dwelling peoples, including hunting, fishing, forest product collection and timber harvesting, is believed to be a major threat to the biodiversity of tropical forests worldwide. Despite this threat, few studies have attempted to quantify these activities across time or across large spatial scales. We use a unique longitudinal household survey (n = 480) to describe changes in these activities over time in 32 indigenous communities from five ethnicities in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon. To provide insight into the drivers of these changes, we also estimate multilevel statistical models of these activities as a function of household and community characteristics. These analyses reveal that participation in hunting, fishing, and forest product collection is

SUBMITTER: Gray CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4302340 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature