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| Bennett, E.L. | |
| Is There a Link between Wild Meat and Food Security? | |
| 2002 Conservation Biology (16): 590-592 | |
Tropical-forest people have been hunting wildlife for food for at least 40,000 years in Africa and Southeast Asia and at least 10,000 years in Latin America, and many peoples across the tropics still do so today. But with areas of forest declining, and human populations expanding, we need to ask whether the food security of tropical-forest peoples still depends on their ability to eat wild meat. If so, then we clearly have a problem, given that so much hunting today is already known to be unsustainable. To determine how much hardship people will suffer if wildlife populations continue to decline, we need to distinguish clearly between use of the resource and dependence on it. |
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