title: Differences between Pygmy and Non-Pygmy Hunting in Congo Basin Forests.
abstract: We use data on game harvest from 60 Pygmy and non-Pygmy settlements in the Congo Basin forests to examine whether hunting patterns and prey profiles differ between the two hunter groups. For each group, we calculate hunted animal numbers and biomass available per inhabitant, P, per year (harvest rates) and killed per hunter, H, per year (extraction rates). We assess the impact of hunting of both hunter groups from estimates of numbers and biomass of prey species killed per square kilometre, and by examining the proportion of hunted taxa of low, medium and high population growth rates as a measure of their vulnerability to overhunting. We then map harvested biomass (kg-1P-1Yr-1) of bushmeat by Pygmies and non-Pygmies throughout the Congo Basin. Hunting patterns differ between Pygmies and non-Pygmies; Pygmies take larger and different prey and non-Pygmies sell more for profit. We show that non-Pygmies have a potentially more severe impact on prey populations than Pygmies. This is because non-Pygmies hunt a wider range of species, and twice as many animals are taken per square kilometre. Moreover, in non-Pygmy settlements there was a larger proportion of game taken of low population growth rate. Our harvest map shows that the non-Pygmy population may be responsible for 27 times more animals harvested than the Pygmy population. Such differences indicate that the intense competition that may arise from the more widespread commercial hunting by non-Pygmies is a far more important constraint and source of conflict than are protected areas.
authors: Division of Biology and Conservation Ecology, School of Science and the Environment, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, M1 5GD, United Kingdom.|Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), CIFOR Headquarters, Bogor, 16115, Indonesia.
authors: Julia E
authors: 0000-0002-3611-8487
authors: JE
authors: Fa
authors: Grupo de Biogeografía, Diversidad y Conservación, Departamento de Biología Animal, Universidad de Málaga, Facultad de Ciencias, Campus de Teatinos s/n, 29071, Málaga, Spain.
authors: Jesús
authors: J
authors: Olivero
authors: Grupo de Biogeografía, Diversidad y Conservación, Departamento de Biología Animal, Universidad de Málaga, Facultad de Ciencias, Campus de Teatinos s/n, 29071, Málaga, Spain.
authors: Miguel Angel
authors: MA
authors: Farfán
authors: Department of Anthropology, University College London, 14 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW, United Kingdom.
authors: Jerome
authors: J
authors: Lewis
authors: Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University, 46 Yoshida-Shimoadachi-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan.
authors: Hirokazu
authors: H
authors: Yasuoka
authors: Department of Geography, University of Florida, 3141 Turlington Hall, Gainesville, FL, 32611-7315, United States of America.
authors: Andrew
authors: A
authors: Noss
authors: Faculty of International Studies, Tenri University, 1050 Somanouchi, Tenri City, Nara, 632-8510, Japan.
authors: Shiho
authors: S
authors: Hattori
authors: Japan Forest Technology Association, 7 Rokubancho, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, 102-0085, Japan.
authors: Masaaki
authors: M
authors: Hirai
authors: Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University, 46 Yoshida-Shimoadachi-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan.|Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife, P.O. Box 14794, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
authors: Towa O W
authors: TO
authors: Kamgaing
authors: Dipartimento di Scienze, Università Roma Tre, Rome, Italy.
authors: Giuseppe
authors: G
authors: Carpaneto
authors: Dipartimento di Scienze, Università Roma Tre, Rome, Italy.
authors: Francesco
authors: F
authors: Germi
authors: Grupo de Biogeografía, Diversidad y Conservación, Departamento de Biología Animal, Universidad de Málaga, Facultad de Ciencias, Campus de Teatinos s/n, 29071, Málaga, Spain.
authors: Ana Luz
authors: AL
authors: Márquez
authors: Ofitecma, calle Colombia 5, 29400, Ronda, Spain.
authors: Jesús
authors: J
authors: Duarte
authors: Ethnoecology Laboratory, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.|Département Hommes, Natures, Sociétés MNHN-Musée de l'Homme 17 place du Trocadéro, 75116, Paris, France.
authors: Romain
authors: R
authors: Duda
authors: Ethnoecology Laboratory, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.|Département Hommes, Natures, Sociétés MNHN-Musée de l'Homme 17 place du Trocadéro, 75116, Paris, France.
authors: Sandrine
authors: S
authors: Gallois
authors: Bioclimate, Research and Development, UN House, 4 Hunter Square, Edinburgh, EH1 1QW, United Kingdom.
authors: Michael
authors: M
authors: Riddell
authors: Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), CIFOR Headquarters, Jalan CIFOR, Situ Gede, Bogor, 16115, Indonesia.
authors: Robert
authors: R
authors: Nasi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D044383:Black People; D003223:Congo; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D065928:Forests; D006801:Humans