Turning the game around for conservation: using traditional hunting knowledge to improve the capture efficiency of Amazon lowland pacas

Rocha El Bizri, H; Araujo, L; Araujo, W; Maranhao, L; Valsecchi, J

doi:10.2981/wlb.00127

All Outputs (4)

Assessment of mammal reproduction for hunting sustainability through community-based sampling of species in the wild (2016)
Journal Article
Mayor, P., Rocha El Bizri, H., Bodmer, R., & Bowler, M. (2016). Assessment of mammal reproduction for hunting sustainability through community-based sampling of species in the wild. Conservation Biology, 31(4), 912-923. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12870

Wildlife subsistence hunting is a major source of protein for tropical rural populations and a prominent conservation issue. The intrinsic rate of natural increase. (rmax) of populations is a key reproductive parameter in the most used assessments of... Read More about Assessment of mammal reproduction for hunting sustainability through community-based sampling of species in the wild.

Crise e retrocessos na legislação ambiental (2016)
Journal Article
Almeida, R., Tofoli, R., & Rocha El Bizri, H. (2016). Crise e retrocessos na legislação ambiental

A revista Science publicou recentemente três cartas assinadas por diferentes grupos de pesquisadores brasileiros, cada uma delas liderada por um dos autores deste texto. Em meio ao caos político e econômico atual, muitas políticas ambientais equivoca... Read More about Crise e retrocessos na legislação ambiental.

Mining undermining Brazil's environment (2016)
Journal Article
Rocha El Bizri, H., Macedo, J., Paglia, A., & Morcatty, T. (2016). Mining undermining Brazil's environment. Science, 353(6296), https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aag1111

Turning the game around for conservation: using traditional hunting knowledge to improve the capture efficiency of Amazon lowland pacas (2016)
Journal Article
Rocha El Bizri, H., Araujo, L., Araujo, W., Maranhao, L., & Valsecchi, J. (2016). Turning the game around for conservation: using traditional hunting knowledge to improve the capture efficiency of Amazon lowland pacas. Wildlife Biology, 22(1), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.2981/wlb.00127

The lowland paca Cuniculus paca is a large rodent and is one of the most hunted mammal species in the Neotropics. Conservation strategies for the lowland paca that depend on data from live captures have been hampered due to the elusive behavior of th... Read More about Turning the game around for conservation: using traditional hunting knowledge to improve the capture efficiency of Amazon lowland pacas.