- Title
- Bushmeat use is widespread but under-researched in rural communities of South Africa
- Creator
- Martins, Vusumzi, Shackleton, Charlie M
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179745
- Identifier
- vital:43167
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00583"
- Description
- Bushmeat hunting and consumption is common throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, a recent review indicated that the prevalence and nature of bushmeat hunting was little researched or understood in southern African savannas. Here we present information from a number of rural livelihoods studies in South Africa that indicate that bushmeat consumption is common, with typically between 30 and 60% of rural households in the communal tenure regions stating that they consume it. Yet there are only five studies in the country explicitly investigating bushmeat hunting practices, motivations, offtake and target species. A review of the five studies indicates that bushmeat hunting is largely a male activity and that motivations and practices vary between sites. Hunting with dogs is the most common method, targeting multiple small and medium-sized species. With such widespread consumption, it is possible that bushmeat hunting may have significant effects on the population status of some target species and consequently requires urgent and in-depth research of both practices and effects
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (5 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Global Ecology and Conservation, Martins, V. and Shackleton, C.M., 2019. Bushmeat use is widespread but under-researched in rural communities of South Africa. Global Ecology and Conservation, 17, p.e00583, Global Ecology and Conservation volume 17 e00583 2019 2351-9894
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- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
- Rights
- Open Access
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RU DST/NRF SARChI for Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods
RU Department of Environmental Science
Shackleton, Charles Michael (Distinguished Prof)
SDG 03. Good Health and Well-Being
SDG 15. Life On Land
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