Hunting territories and land use overlap in sedentarised Baka Pygmy communities in southeastern Cameroon.

ABSTRACT: A significant number of Baka Pygmies in Cameroon have been sedentarised in roadside villages, in contrast to their nomadic hunter-gatherer existence of the past. Although this change in lifestyle has had important consequences on health, most Baka villages still supplement their diets from forest products, especially wild meat. We used a combination of participatory methods and monitoring of individual hunters to map hunting territories in 10 Baka villages in southeastern Cameroon. From these, we determined whether wild meat extraction levels per village were related to the size of hunting territories, measured habitat use by hunters and finally defined the overlap between hunting territories and extractive industries in the region. Mapped village hunting areas averaged 205.2 ± 108.7 km

SUBMITTER: Fa JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7876010 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature