- Title
- Quantity and significance of wild meat off-take by a rural community in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Creator
- Kaschula, Sarah A H
- Creator
- Shackleton, Charlie M
- Date Issued
- 2009
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- vital:6638
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006864
- Description
- When compared to tropical forest zones in west and central Africa, off-take of wild meat from savannah and grassland biomes by local rural communities has not been well assessed. This case study of wild meat collection activities within a rural community in the Mount Frere region of the Eastern Cape (South Africa) uses last-catch records derived from 50 wild meat gatherers to calculate average off-take of taxa, species and fresh mass of wild meat per collection event. When per-event off take is overlaid onto household hunting frequency data, annual off-take would be 268.6 kg km−2 yr−1 or 3 kg person−1 yr−1 presuming constant off-take over an annual period. Monetary value of off-take would be South African R 307 (US$ 39) per household annually. For some species, off-take weight per km2 shows similar values to data from tropical forest zones, but high human population densities tend to dilute off-takes to less nutritionally significant amounts at the per person scale. However, unlike many tropical zones, none of the species harvested can be considered high-priority conservation species. Even densely populated and heavily harvested communal lands appear to offer high wild meat off-takes from low conservation priority species.
- Format
- 9 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Kaschula, S. A. H. and Shackleton, C.M. (2009) Quantity and significance of wild meat off-take by a rural community in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Environmental Conservation, 36 (3). pp. 192-200. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0376892909990282
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Shackleton, Charles Michael (Distinguished Prof)
RU Department of Environmental Science
SDG 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 15. Life On Land
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