The distribution of bushmeat mammals in unflooded forests of the Central Amazon is influenced by poaching proxies
Gilson de Souza Ferreira Neto, Fabricio Beggiato Baccaro, Matthew J Phillips, Rodrigo Lima Massara · 2023
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Gilson de Souza Ferreira Neto and three co-authors mapped where hunted mammals still live in the Central Amazon, in this 2023 study. Deer, peccaries, agoutis, pacas, and armadillos are valued as bushmeat, and hunting pressure near villages may be hollowing out their populations. The team set camera traps in unflooded forest and modeled how likely each animal group was to occupy a site.
They grouped twenty-seven species by how hunters treat them: prized game, animals killed in retaliation, and species nobody hunts. The bushmeat group was notably scarcer near human settlements, as hunting pressure predicts. Surprisingly, sites near settlements with more families held slightly more game, a puzzle the authors attribute to how hunting effort spreads. Reading occupancy from camera traps gives conservation planners a map of where protection matters most for hunted wildlife.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Gilson de Souza Ferreira Neto, Fabricio Beggiato Baccaro, Matthew J Phillips, Rodrigo Lima Massara |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 43 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |