Human-wildlife conflicts in Amazonian extractive reserves: spatial footprint and impact of subsistence hunters on forest vertebrates

• Grant number: 17/08461-8
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: September 01, 2017
• End date: February 29, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology
• Principal Investigator: Ronaldo Gonçalves Morato
• Grantee: Ronaldo Gonçalves Morato
• Host Institution: Centro Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação de Mamíferos Carnívoros (CENAP). Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBIO). Atibaia , SP, Brazil
• City of the host institution: Atibaia
• Associated researchers: Adriano Garcia Chiarello ; Carlos Augusto da Silva Peres

Abstract

The Amazonian Basin has the largest remaining tropical forest of the world, accounting to almost 7 million of km2, it's been considered a high diversified biome. Brazil has the major part of this territory (4.7 million of km2), which has been severely changed by human activities, where 20% of it has deforested and other 32% has degraded by logging and human induced fires. To safeguard forest biodiversity, many large government-managed Protected Areas (PAs) have been created over the last decades. More than 60% of these PAs are legally occupied by human populations, who sustainably exploit natural resources, including game vertebrates. This project will evaluate the landscape-scale effects of subsistence hunters inside PAs on large-bodied vertebrate populations in order to quantify (1) this human spatial footprint; (2) the wildlife conservation performance of PAs, identifying the potential for "reserves within reserves"; and (3) provide technical guidelines to deploy a wildlife management protocol within human- occupied Amazonian PAs. This project will be the first study to assess the human occupied PAs efficacy to gamed species conservation in Amazonia, aiming to promote the rational use of this resource by local people of this Protected Area. (AU)

Scientific publications

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SAMPAIO, RICARDO; MORATO, RONALDO G.; ABRAHAMS, MARK I.; CHIARELLO, ADRIANO G.; PERES, CARLOS A.. Quantifying spatial patterns of game vertebrate abundance in Amazonian forests through local ecological knowledge-based methods. Conservation Biology, v. 39, n. 3, p. 11-pg., 2025-06-01. (17/08461-8)

SAMPAIO, RICARDO; MORATO, RONALDO G.; ABRAHAMS, MARK, I; PERES, CARLOS A.; CHIARELLO, ADRIANO G.. Physical geography trumps legal protection in driving the perceived sustainability of game hunting in Amazonian local communities. JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION, v. 67, p. 11-pg., 2022-03-30. (17/08461-8)

SAMPAIO, RICARDO; MORATO, RONALDO G.; NUNES, ANDRE VALLE; CHIARELLO, ADRIANO G.. Using camera traps to enhance community-based management of subsistence hunting in the Amazon. Conservation Biology, v. 39, n. 3, p. 9-pg., 2025-06-01. (17/08461-8)

MENEZES, JORGE F. S.; TORTATO, FERNANDO R.; OLIVEIRA-SANTOS, LUIZ G. R.; ROQUE, FABIO O.; MORATO, RONALDO G.. Deforestation, fires, and lack of governance are displacing thousands of jaguars in Brazilian Amazon. CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE, JUN 2021. (17/08461-8)

DE SOUZA, LEANDRO SIQUEIRA; SAMPAIO, RICARDO; NASCIMENTO GOMES, ANA PAULA; MORATO, RONALDO G.; CHIARELLO, ADRIANO G.; DE SOUZA, LEILANDIO SIQUEIRA; DE ARAUJO SANTOS, FRANCISCO GLAUCO; BOIA, MARCIO NEVES; RODRIGUES E SILVA, ROSANGELA. Occurrence of potential wild hosts of Echinococcus vogeli in the forests of southwestern Brazilian Amazonia. Biota Neotropica, v. 22, n. 3, p. 8-pg., 2022-01-01. (17/08461-8)

SAMPAIO, RICARDO; MORATO, RONALDO G.; ROYLE, ANDY; ABRAHAMS, MARK I.; PERES, CARLOS A.; CHIARELLO, ADRIANO G.. Vertebrate population changes induced by hunting in Amazonian sustainable-use protected areas. Biological Conservation, v. 284, p. 12-pg., 2023-08-01. (17/08461-8)

MENEZES, JORGE F. S.; TORTATO, FERNANDO R.; OLIVEIRA-SANTOS, LUIZ G. R.; ROQUE, FABIO O.; MORATO, RONALDO G.. eforestation, fires, and lack of governance are displacing thousands of jaguars in Brazilian Amazo. CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE, v. 3, n. 8, AUG 2021. (17/08461-8)