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A new series of briefing papers covering the development
policy dimensions of wildlife management issues. WPBs
are targeted at a wide audience of policy makers, researchers
and practitioners.
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Wildlife
Policy Brief
No. 7 |
'The Bushmeat Commodity Chain:
Patterns of trade and sustainability in a mature urban
market in West Africa'
June 2004 Guy Cowlishaw, Samantha
Mendelson, and J. Marcus Rowcliffe
The authors argue that current
market sustainability in Takoradi, Ghana may be the
result of historical levels of over-exploitation,
leaving robust species with high reproductive rates.
They conclude that such mature markets can be sustainably
managed and, owing to the robust, fast reproducing
species in the trade there, are of low priority for
conservation action...
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Wildlife
Policy Brief
No. 6 |
'Wild meat harvest and trade
in Liberia: Managing biodiversity, economic and social
impacts'
April
2004 Reginald Hoyt
More Liberians benefit from the
bushmeat trade than from the timber or mining industries.
This paper argues that unless national and community
management capacity is increased, Liberia will not only
fail to meet its conservation objectives, it will also
lose a valuable natural resource upon which many poor
people depend...
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Wildlife
Policy Brief
No. 5 |
‘Barren ground caribou co-management
in the Eastern Canadian Arctic: Lessons for bushmeat’
April 2004 Andrew Hurst
The history and present arrangements
involving government scientists and indigenous hunters
in caribou conservation are examined to show that there
are many lessons to be learned for bushmeat management
in the tropics...
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Wildlife
Policy Brief
No. 4 |
‘The bushmeat trade and
Fishing Licence Agreements in West Africa’
March 2004 Ian Watson and Justin
Brashares
Considering evidence from Ghana,
this paper concludes that while there is an interaction
between fish supplies and bushmeat species populations,
the nature of this relationship is not well known.
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Wildlife Policy Brief
No. 3 |
‘Contribution of forest
insects to food security and forest conservation:
The example of caterpillars in Central Africa’
January 2004 Paul Vantomme,
Daniela Göhler and François N'Deckere-Ziangba
This paper looks at the development
policy implications of edible insects for poor people
in Central Africa, particularly the part of caterpillar
species in food security.
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Wildlife Policy Brief
No. 2 |
‘Bushmeat and Poverty Alleviation:
Implications for Development Policy’
November 2003 David
Brown
This paper discusses arguments
for the inclusion of bushmeat in considerations of
poverty alleviation, economic growth and good governance
policies.
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Wildlife Policy Brief
No. 1 |
‘Wild resources and livelihoods
of poor households in the Democratic Republic of Congo’
November 2003 Emmanuel de Merode,
Katherine Homewood and Guy Cowlishaw
This paper outlines research
on the links between poverty and wild food use in
a poor community of Congolese farming households.
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