Reductions in Primate Abundance and Diversity in a Multiuse Protected Area: Synergistic Impacts of Hunting and Logging in a Congo Basin Forest

2012 ◽  
Vol 74 (7) ◽  
pp. 602-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
MELISSA J. REMIS ◽  
CAROLYN A. JOST ROBINSON
Keyword(s):  
Protected Area ◽  
Congo Basin ◽  
Congo Basin Forest ◽  
Abundance And Diversity

Multi-faceted approaches to understanding changes in wildlife and livelihoods in a protected area: a conservation case study from the Central African Republic

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
CAROLYN A. JOST ROBINSON ◽  
LESLEY L. DASPIT ◽  
MELISSA J. REMIS
Keyword(s):  
Protected Area ◽  
Central African Republic ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Ecological Impacts ◽  
Congo Basin ◽  
Integrated Analysis ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
The Status ◽  
Wildlife Populations ◽  
Nuanced Understanding

SUMMARYCommercialized hunting and trade of wildlife are the largest threats to mammal populations and human livelihoods in the Congo Basin. It is widely recognized that the lives of humans and wildlife in this region are inextricably intertwined. However, few studies have attempted to integrate both human and wildlife dimensions using ethnographic data to better contextualize the trade and its ecological impacts. This paper outlines a methodological approach that combines ethnographic research, ecological line transects and market surveys in the Dzanga Sangha Reserve (Central African Republic). Results from each research component are reported separately in order to provide examples of how each would answer specific questions about the status of wildlife populations and the scale of hunting within a protected area. The integrated analysis of ethnographic, market and ecological datasets clarifies synergistic impacts operating in the region and provides a more nuanced understanding of changes in both the forest and the market based on information gleaned from hunting practices and hunter interviews. This research demonstrates the potential pitfalls of using a singular approach to make recommendations on complex human-environment issues. Such cross-disciplinary mixed-methods approaches will further understandings of dynamic wildlife populations and forge more informed environmental policy recommendations.

scholarly journals Addressing constraints in promoting wild edible plants’ utilization in household nutrition: case of the Congo Basin forest area

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Precillia Ijang Tata Ngome ◽  
Charlie Shackleton ◽  
Anne Degrande ◽  
Julius Chupezi Tieguhong
Keyword(s):  
Forest Area ◽  
Congo Basin ◽  
Wild Edible Plants ◽  
Edible Plants ◽  
Congo Basin Forest

scholarly journals A Framework for Assessing Conservation and Development in a Congo Basin Forest Landscape

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 262-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominique Endamana ◽  
Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono ◽  
Bruno Bokoto ◽  
Louis Defo ◽  
Antoine Eyebe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Congo Basin ◽  
Forest Landscape ◽  
Conservation And Development ◽  
Congo Basin Forest

scholarly journals Dynamiques sociales et stratégies féminines dans la Forêt modèle de campo-ma’an, cameroun

2012 ◽  
Vol 88 (03) ◽  
pp. 283-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Marie Tiani ◽  
Julie Gagoe Tchoko ◽  
Hélène Eboto ◽  
Jean Claude Njomkap ◽  
Théophile Bouki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Congo Basin ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Congo Basin Forest

Located in the southwestern corner of Cameroon, Campo-Ma’an Model Forest is part of the vast Congo Basin forest. Previously, a variety of interventions in the area have had different effects, some of them negative, on the lives of the local residents including women who are the main providers of household income in rural areas. With the inauguration of the Campo-Ma’an Model Forest in 2005—a platform based on a voluntary partnership of all public, private and community actors—was established. This led to collaboration capable of addressing sustainable development and conservation issues within this region. The goal of this paper is to show that, in this ever-changing context, the Model Forest concept is bringing about changes in the vision, structuring and strategies of the different social groups, particularly amongst women.

scholarly journals The Cap Roux MPA (Saint-Raphaël, French Mediterranean): changes in fish assemblages within four years of protection

2008 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 180-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Seytre ◽  
Patrice Francour
Keyword(s):  
Protected Area ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Fish Assemblages ◽  
Marine Protected Area ◽  
Ecosystem Structure ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Underwater Visual Census ◽  
Fish Stocks ◽  
Target Fish ◽  
Abundance And Diversity

Abstract Seytre, C., and Francour, P. 2009. The Cap Roux MPA (Saint-Raphaël, French Mediterranean): changes in fish assemblages within four years of protection. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 66: 180–187. In recent decades, marine reserves have been established to protect ecosystem structure and biological diversity, or as management tools to combat the overexploitation of fish stocks. The Cap Roux Marine Protected Area (MPA) was established by professional fishers in December 2003, in the French Mediterranean between Cannes and Saint-Raphaël. It was implemented to enhance target fish stocks for local fisheries. The objective of this 3-year study was to investigate the initial responses of fish assemblages, using complementary methods: experimental net fishing performed by a professional fisher and underwater visual census. Within 3 years, this study detected early changes in the fish assemblages. The methods also detected an increase in abundance and diversity of fish, but also a decrease of seasonal fluctuations of the assemblage structure, which was characterized by winter values close to summer values in the protected zone but not outside of the MPA. These results helped clarify the dynamic by which fish assemblages respond to fishing prohibition in a newly created protected area.

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