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SUMMARY:Bushmeat crisis in the Congo Basin: more than a conservation crisi
 s - Robert Nasi (CIFOR)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150605T161500
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150605T183000
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DESCRIPTION:Protein from forest wildlife is crucial to rural food security
  and livelihoods in the Congo Basin. The harvest of animals such as duiker
 s\, antelopes\, pigs\, primates\, rodents\, birds and reptiles provides be
 nefits to local people worth millions of US$ annually and represents aroun
 d 5 million tonnes of animals extracted yearly. Vulnerability to hunting v
 aries\, with some species sustaining populations in heavily hunted seconda
 ry habitats\, while others require intact forests with minimal harvesting 
 to maintain healthy populations. Till recently this important and lucrativ
 e sector has been mainly considered from the biodiversity loss angle\; and
  there is certainly a biodiversity crisis looming if nothing is done. This
  translated into call for blanket interdictions\, interventions upstream i
 n the value chain (targeting the hunters) and repressive policies but chan
 ged very little of the actual issues on the ground: people continue unabat
 edly to hunt and trade bushmeat. This blindness to the other characteristi
 cs of the sector: its importance for livelihoods\, food security and incom
 e as well as its very deep social legitimacy is probably the main reasons 
 we made so little progress and we are still facing both a global biodivers
 ity crisis and a deepening protein gap for local populations. We argue tha
 t the bushmeat sector should be seen as an important topic to development 
 policy because of its role in sustaining livelihoods and its possible cont
 ribution to better public governance in the forest-environment sector. Cri
 minalization of the whole sector is not going to be the solution and so is
  the provision of alternative livelihoods. We need to design a proper\, lo
 cally tailored\, management system for this important resource protecting 
 what needs to be protected\, harvesting what can be harvested and creating
  a legal framework to this purpose using market-based instruments such as 
 forest certification and using a sound bushmeat sector to support and leve
 rage improvements in forest governance.\n\nSpeakers:\nRobert Nasi (CIFOR)
LOCATION:Dyson Perrins Building (Herbertson Room)\, off South Parks Road O
 X1 3QY
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/10db5025-6f67-421e-b1c4-17fab6398314/
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