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| Title: | Hunting practices in the semiarid region of Brazil |
| Authors: | Barbosa, José Aécio Alves
Nobrega, Veruska Asevedo
Alves, Rômulo Romeu da Nóbrega |
| Keywords: | Hunting
Subsistence
Wildlife conservation |
| Issue Date: | Jul-2011 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| IPC Code: | Int. Cl.8 : A01; A01K |
| Abstract: | The present study,
undertaken in a traditional community in the semiarid region of Paraíba State,
registered the principal animal species hunted for
nutritional purposes or because they are considered dangerous to people and/or
their domestic animals or cause other economic damage (in what can be called
control-hunting), and evaluated the implications of these practices in terms of
the conservation of the local fauna. The interviewees cited a total of 38
species of wild animals that were hunted in the region for food or that
represented (in the opinion of the interviewees) some risk to humans and/or domestic stocks.
The species cited could be grouped into 6 faunal groups (mammals, birds,
reptiles, amphibians, fish, and arthropods).
Subsistence hunting in the study region is principally directed towards birds
and mammals, which represent alternative sources of protein for local human
populations. Hunting for pest control is principally directed towards reptiles
(which are considered dangerous or loathsome) and these animals are
indiscriminately killed whether they are poisonous or not. |
| Page(s): | 486-490 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print) |
| Source: | IJTK Vol.10(3) [July 2011]
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