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Hunting of Wildlife is a Global Affair

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Reasons for Hunting Differs

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More than

50%protein intake

for manycommunities worldwide

In Tropical and Sub-Tropical Regions

In Tropical and Sub-Tropical Regions

MAMMALS

POPULATIONDECLINE

UP TO 90%Hunted x Non-hunted

(Peres, 2000)

10MILLIONTONS/YEAR

MAMMAL MEAT

TROPICS(Fa et al. 2002; Nasi et al. 2011)

26%

THREATENED

(Ripple et al. 2016)

Impact of Uncontrolled Hunting

Global Needs

Plans for sustainable

consumption

Protect game species to

promote food security

Protect threatened

species

Guidance to promote, implement and accelerate integrated action to:

• Ensure the supply of wild meat is sustainably managed at the source;

• Control the excessive demand of wild meat in towns and cities;

• Create an enabling environment for the sustainable management of wild meat.

Resolution Objectives

Aichi Biodiversity Targets (by 2020)

– Target 4, sustainable production and consumption, keepingimpacts of use of natural resources well within safe ecological limits.

– Target 7, sustainable management of areas under agriculture, aquaculture and forestry, ensuring conservation of biodiversity.

– Target 12, prevent the extinction of known threatened species and improve and sustain their conservation status, particularly of those most in decline.

Sustainable Use of Components of Biological Diversity

– Article 10 requires Parties, as far as possible and as appropriate actions identified in this note should be undertaken in the context of the 2050 Vision of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Global Policy Context

• Integrate conservation and sustainable use of biological resources into national decision-making;

• Use biological resources to avoid or minimize adverse impacts on biological diversity;

• Protect and encourage customary use of biological resources according to traditional cultural practices compatible with conservation or sustainable use requirements;

• Support local populations develop and implement remedial action in degraded areas where biological diversity has been reduced; and

• Encourage cooperation governmental authorities - private sector in developing methods for sustainable use of biological resources.

Working Aims

Specific Solutions

(Nasi et al. 2011)

A. Manage and improve

sustainability of wild meat supply

at the source

B. Reduce demand for

unsustainably managed wild

meat

C. Create enabling

conditions for a controlled,

sustainable wild meat sector

Suggested Steps

A. Manage/improve sustainability

B. Reduce demand C. Create enabling conditions

Review existing policies and legal framework

Develop demand-reduction strategies, focussing on towns and cities

Increase international collaboration

Strengthen law enforcement capacity

Increase the availability of substitutes

Acknowledge the role of wild meat, where legitimate, and adapt national policy and legal frameworks accordingly

Develop and strengthen participatory processes

Decrease availability and demand for unsustainably produced wild meat

Create regional and national monitoring frameworks for wild meat

AuthorsLauren Coad (CIFOR / University of Sussex); John E. Fa (CIFOR / Manchester Metropolitan University); Nathalie Van Vliet (CIFOR); Katharine Abernethy (University of Stirling); Catalina Santamaria(SBSTTA-CBD), David Wilkie (Wildlife Conservation Society); Donna-Mareè Cawthorn (University of Salford); Robert Nasi (CIFOR).

AcknowledgementsThe resolution document was prepared in response to a call from the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Secretariat and under

contract to the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).

References

Fa, J. E., Currie, D. & Meeuwig, J. 2003. Bushmeat and food security in the Congo Basin: linkages between wildlife and people’s future. Environmental Conservation 30, 71-78.

Nasi, R., Taber, A. & Van Vliet, N. (2011). Empty forests, empty stomachs? Bushmeat and livelihoods in the Congo and Amazon Basins. International Forestry Review 13, 355– 368.