Ecological sustainability of mammal hunting in inírida region, colombian amazon

Abstract. During hundreds of years, the native indigenous population of the Amazon have lived in balance with their natural resources, but since colonization many regions shows an ecologically unsustainable resources use, representing an ecologic and cultural crisis in the region. To know the drivers of the ecological unsustainability of mammal hunting, I studied three substantial different indigenous communities in the Inirida Region, characterized by an intense evangelization process. Ecological, socio-economic and cultural factors were tacked into account to identify the mayor causes of unsustainable hunting. Semi-structured interviews in a recall survey way were conducted in each community through October–December 2011, and were collected hunting and economic activity, food expenses and cultural relevant information. The data was analyzed in a qualitative way and from a holistic perspective. The results showed the persistence of hunt of rodents in the region and only occasional hunt of large-bodied mammals in the furthest communities dedicated to agricultural and commercial activities, where the diary protein requirements are supplied by bushmeat, in a more sustainable resources use. Contrary, in the community nearest to the town, dedicated to paid work, the protein requirements are not supplied by bushmeat, but the people sold the animals hunted and have highest food expenses. These appear to be the patron in the region, corroborating that the bushmeat is not been used as subsistence resource. The situation has been propitiated by the loss of traditional practices and worldview of the indigenous people, causing the change of traditional patterns of natural resources use. It indicates that the mayor driver of the actual ecologically unsustainable hunting activity in the region has been the radical evangelization process, plus an external social and governmental commercial pressure. Evidence of the critical necessity of takes into account the cultural context to find appropriate solutions to the bushmeat threat.

• Autores: Ortega Rincón, Marcela Carolina
• Fecha de publicación: 2014
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Repositorio: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/51882
• Acceso en línea: https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/51882; http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/46108/
• Palabra clave: 0 Generalidades / Computer science, information and general works; 2 Religión / Religion; 33 Economía / Economics; 57 Ciencias de la vida; Biología / Life sciences; biology; 58 Plantas / Plants; 59 Animales / Animals; 98 Historia general de América del Sur / History of ancient world; of specific continents, countries, localities; of extraterrestrial worlds; Carne de monte; Sostenibiliad ecológica; Religión; Cultura; Mamíferos de gran tamaño; Bushmeat; Ecological sustainability; Religion; Culture; Large-bodied mammals
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional