Bushmeat Hunting, Wildlife Declines, and Fish Supply in West Africa

By J. Brashares, P. Arcese, M. Sam, P. Coppolillo, A. Sinclair, Andrew Balmford. Science, 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Citations in the corpus

• Marine defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean (2015, background): “People in West Africa, for example, exploit wild terrestrial fauna more heavily in years when marine fauna are in short supply (104).”
• Global Biodiversity Change: The Bad, the Good, and the Unknown (2012, background): “Bushmeat hunting, wildlife declines, and fish supply in West Africa.”
• An African account of ecosystem service provision : use, threats and policy options for sustainable livelihoods (2012, background): “For example, Brashares et al. (2004) showed that years of poor fish supply caused by foreign fishing fleets in Ghana coincided with increase in community hunting in nature reserves and livestock consumption.”
• Conservation Biology for All (2010, background): “The oscillation of good and bad years in marine fisheries can also modulate the protein demand from terrestrial wildlife populations (Brashares et al. 2004).”
• Improving the effectiveness of interventions to balance conservation and development: a conceptual framework (2007, background): “…parks as a result of bushmeat collecting is being accelerated by the reduction in the availability of fish protein caused by European fishing (Brashares et al. 2004), but this loss is probably inevitable in the face of the increase in the Ghanaian population and the lack of the economic…”
• Institutional and political leadership dimensions of cascading ecological crises (2011, background): “Consequently, diets and trading activities shift to so-called ‘bushmeat’ such as chimpanzees and flying foxes (Brashares et al. 2004).”
• Biodiversity and the functioning of seagrass ecosystems (2006, background): “…ultimate ‘mobile link’ species, and our activities often have unanticipated consequences at landscape and regional scales, such as the increased hunting pressure on endangered African forest animals when overexploitation reduced fishery production in adjacent marine waters (Brashares et al. 2004).”
• Impacts of climate variability and change on fishery-based livelihoods (2010, background): “For example, in West Africa, when coastal fisheries resources are scarce, fisherfolk adopt alternative livelihood strategies including hunting for bushmeat [33].”
• The roles and values of wild foods in agricultural systems (2010, background): “Brashares et al. (2004) found links between unsustainable harvesting of bushmeat and fish stocks in Africa: years of poor fish catches coincided with increased hunting over a 30 year period.”