Shifting cultivation and hunting across the savanna-forest mosaic in the Gran Sabana, Venezuela: facing changes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Human encroachment and overexploitation of natural resources in the Neotropics is constantly increasing. Indigenous communities all across the Amazon, are trapped between a population rise and a hot debate about the sustainability of hunting rates. The Garden Hunting hypothesis states that shifting cultivation schemes (conucos) used by Amazon indigenous communities may generate favorable conditions, increasing abundance of small and medium wildlife species close to the 'gardens' providing game for indigenous hunters.

Methods

Here, we combined camera trap surveys and spatially explicit interview dataset on Pemón indigenous hunting scope and occurrence in a mosaic of savanna and forest in the Gran Sabana, Venezuela to evaluate to what extent the wildlife resource us

SUBMITTER: Stachowicz I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8214850 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature