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

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    Fa, J.E.
    Brull, G.R.
    Martin, E.A.
    Okale, R.
    Fouda, F.
    Farfán, M.A.
    Cain, B.
    Fisher, R.
    Coad, L.
    Funk, S.M.
    Date
    2021-02
    Language
    en
    Type
    Journal Article
    Review status
    Peer Review
    ISI journal
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    Open Access
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    CC-BY-4.0
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    Fa, J.E., Brull, G.R., Martin, E.Á., Okale, R., Fouda, F., Fárfan, M.Á., Cain, B., Fisher, R., Coad, L. and Funk, S.M., 2021. Hunting territories and land use overlap in sedentarised Baka Pygmy communities in southeastern Cameroon. Scientific Reports, 11(1): 3503. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83223-y
    Permanent link to cite or share this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/111730
    External link to download this item: https://www.cifor.org/library/7924
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83223-y
    Abstract/Description
    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 km2 (range 76.8–352.0 km2); all villages used a total of 2052 km2. From 295 tracks of 51 hunters, we showed that hunters travelled an average of 16.5 ± 13.5 km (range 0.9–89.8 km) from each village. Home ranges, derived from kernel utilization distributions, were correlated with village offtake levels, but hunter offtake and distance travelled were not significantly related, suggesting that enough prey was available even close to the villages. Hunters in all village areas exhibited a clear bias towards certain habitats, as indicated by positive Ivlev’s index of selectivity values. We also showed that all village hunting territories and hunter home ranges fall within mining and logging concessions. Our results are important for local understanding of forest land uses and to reconcile these with the other land uses in the region to better inform decisions concerning land use policy and planning.
    CGIAR Impact Areas
    Nutrition, health and food security
    Other CGIAR Affiliations
    Forests, Trees and Agroforestry
    AGROVOC Keywords
    wildlife conservation; hunting; food security
    Subjects
    FOREST MANAGEMENT;
    Countries
    Cameroon
    Regions
    Middle Africa
    Organizations Affiliated to the Authors
    Center for International Forestry Research; Manchester Metropolitan University; Zerca y Lejos; Universidad de Málaga; Centro de Experimentación Grice-Hutchinson; Charles Darwin University; University of Oxford; Nature Heritage
    Investors/sponsors
    United States Agency for International Development
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