Study

Using camera trap data to assess the impact of bushmeat hunting on forest mammals in Tanzania

  • Published source details Hegerl C., Burgess N.D., Nielsen M.R., Martin E., Ciolli M. & Rovero F. (2017) Using camera trap data to assess the impact of bushmeat hunting on forest mammals in Tanzania. Oryx, 51, 87-97.

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This study is summarised as evidence for the following.

Action Category

Increase resources for managing protected areas

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Terrestrial Mammal Conservation
  1. Increase resources for managing protected areas

    A site comparison study in 2013–2014 in two forested protected areas in the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania (Hegerl et al. 2017) found that in a well-resourced protected national park, there was greater mammal species richness and occupancy rates or relative abundances for most mammal species compared to those in a forest reserve managed with fewer resources. Estimated mammal species richness was higher in the national park (29 species) than in the forest reserve (18 species). Modelled occupancy rates (a measure of the proportion of sites used by species) were higher in the national park compared to the forest reserve for three species and were lower for one species. For species occurring at both sites, but in insufficient numbers to perform occupancy modelling, relative abundances were higher in the national park compared to the forest reserve for five species and were lower for one species. One site was a 177-km2 forest within a well-resourced national park where poaching was considered to be rare. The other was a 200-km2 forest reserve, managed with fewer resources and where poaching for bushmeat occurred. Each area was surveyed using camera traps, over 917 camera-trap days in the national park and 850 camera-trap days in the forest reserve, between July 2013 and February 2014.

    (Summarised by: Nick Littlewood)

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