FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Community Forestry Note 13
WHAT ABOUT THE WILD ANIMALS?
Wild animal species in community forestry in the tropics
by Kent H. Redford, Robert Godshalk and Kiran Asher
Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- INTRODUCTION
- Values of forest wildlife
- Wildlife use and management
- Recent developments
- Constructing the future
- Structure of the paper
- CHAPTER 1: BIOGEOGRAPHICAL AND ECOLOGICAL FACTORS IN THE USE OF WILD ANIMAL SPECIES
- Source faunas
- The indirect effects of loss of fauna
- Invertebrate wealth
- Hunting patterns
- Wildlife or domestic stock?
- The nutritional advantages of wildlife
- CHAPTER 2: SOCIO-CULTURAL VALUES OF WILDLIFE
- Religion, mythology and folklore
- Taboos on the use of animals
- Ceremonial uses of wild animals
- The cultural significance of hunting
- Medicinal uses of wildlife
- Gender factors: effects on traditional and potential wildlife use
- Effects of market involvement
- CHAPTER 3: PROPERTY REGIMES AND WILDLIFE USE
- Wildlife use and wildlife management
- Categories of property regimes
- Private ownership of wildlife
- The hazards of privatization
- CHAPTER 4: ASSESSING THE ALTERNATIVES FOR INCORPORATING WILD ANIMAL SPECIES INTO COMMUNITY FORESTRY ACTIVITIES
- Classification of nomenclature
- Soft management
- A case study of contemporary soft management: satellite camps and the Yuquí of Amazonian Bolivia
- Soft management options
- Non-food economic products of wild animals
- Negative consequences of integrating wild animals into community forestry activities
- Decision criteria
- CHAPTER 5: REGIONAL EXAMPLES OF WILDLIFE USE AND MANAGEMENT BY LOCAL COMMUNITIES
- Part 1: AFRICA
- Part 2: LATIN AMERICA
- Part 3: SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE PACIFIC REGION
- CHAPTER 6: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
- The goal of community forestry
- GLOSSARY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
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