Abstract
OPINION article Front. Ecol. Evol., 02 August 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2018.00112
Highlights
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Conservation, a section of the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
More recent recommendations by the scientific community (Wilkie et al, 2016) and endorsed by the Convention on Biological Diversity acknowledge the need for more comprehensive and context specific responses to prevent wildlife declines (CBD, 2017). While these recommendations clearly show progress in our understanding of wildlife management complexities, I argue that any approach to manage wildmeat use in tropical regions might continue to result inadequate, un-effective or un-acceptable without a mutualistic understanding of the complexity and nuance regarding the multiple connections that people maintain with wildlife and how these reflect the value orientations shared within the resource constituency
The cultural and ceremonial values of wildmeat are translated in how ritual feasts rely on visual and culinary consistency (e.g., bushmeat used in circumcision ceremonies in Gabon; festival foods among the Kichwa in Ecuador (Sirén, 2012); Mishmi tribe rituals in India (Aiyadurai et al, 2010); communal rituals among the Chakhesang (Naro et al, 2015)
Summary
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Conservation, a section of the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. While these recommendations clearly show progress in our understanding of wildlife management complexities, I argue that any approach to manage wildmeat use in tropical regions might continue to result inadequate, un-effective or un-acceptable without a mutualistic understanding of the complexity and nuance regarding the multiple connections that people maintain with wildlife and how these reflect the value orientations shared within the resource constituency.
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