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Manu National Park (manu + national_park)
Selected AbstractsModelling the long-term sustainability of indigenous hunting in Manu National Park, Peru: landscape-scale management implications for AmazoniaJOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY, Issue 4 2009Taal Levi Summary 1. ,Widespread hunting throughout Amazonia threatens the persistence of large primates and other vertebrates. Most studies have used models of limited validity and restricted spatial and temporal scales to assess the sustainability. 2. ,We use human-demographic, game-harvest and game-census data to parameterize a spatially explicit hunting model. We explore how population growth and spread, hunting technology and effort, and source,sink dynamics impact the density of black spider monkeys Ateles chamek over time and space in the rainforests of south-eastern Peru. 3. ,In all scenarios, spider monkey populations, which are vulnerable to hunting, persist in high numbers in much of Manu National Park over the next 50 years. Nonetheless, shotguns cause much more depletion than traditional bow hunting by Matsigenka (Machiguenga) indigenous people. 4. ,Maintenance of the current indigenous lifestyle (dispersed settlements, bow hunting) is unlikely to deplete spider monkeys and, by extension, other fauna, despite rapid human population growth. This helps explain why large, pre-Colombian human populations did not drive large primates to extinction. When guns are used, however, spider monkeys quickly become depleted around even small settlements, with depletion eventually reversing the short-term harvest advantage provided by shotgun hunting. Thus, our models show that when guns are used, limits on settlement numbers can reduce total depletion. 5. ,Synthesis and applications. Our framework lets us visualize the future effects of hunting, population growth, hunting technology and settlement spread in tropical forests. In Manu Park, the continued prohibition of firearms is important for ensuring long-term hunting sustainability. A complementary policy is to negotiate limits on new settlements in return for development aid in existing settlements. The advantage of the latter approach is that settlement numbers are more easily monitored than is hunting effort or technology. Similar policies could help to reduce landscape-scale depletion of prey species in human-occupied reserves and protected areas throughout the Amazon. [source] Knowledge and Behavior of Tourists to Manu National Park, Peru, in Relation to LeishmaniasisJOURNAL OF TRAVEL MEDICINE, Issue 4 2002Irmgard L. Bauer Background: Tourists have been infected with Leishmania braziliensis and the lack of appropriate travel information on the disease has been documented. The aim of this study was to describe the knowledge and behavior of tourists booked on a trip to Manu National Park in Peru in relation to leishmaniasis and its prevention. Methods: The clients of two tour operators in Cusco, Peru, represented the experimental and control group. The experimental group completed a questionnaire after the tour briefing the night before the trip and received the information leaflet. A second questionnaire was completed just before returning from the park. The clients in the control group did not receive the leaflet. Results: Three hundred and seventy-three questionnaire pairs were collected (173 experimental, 200 control). Only 24 (6%) of all participants claimed to have heard of leishmaniasis. Of the 92.5% of tourists who read the leaflet, 156 (97.5%) found it informative, although 50 (32.5%) wanted more information. It was suggested that the leaflet should be distributed by tour operators (56.9%), general practitioners/family doctors (49%), and travel agents (47.1%). There was no significant difference in the use of preventive measures between the groups. One-third of the experimental group claimed to have paid more attention to protection due to the information given in the leaflet. Conclusions: There is generally a lack of knowledge on leishmaniasis with a great feeling of need for more and detailed information. Correct and complete information on leishmaniasis should be included in the health advice for travelers to endemic areas. [source] Game Vertebrate Densities in Hunted and Nonhunted Forest Sites in Manu National Park, PeruBIOTROPICA, Issue 2 2010Whaldener Endo ABSTRACT Manu National Park of southern Peru is one of the most renowned protected areas in the world, yet large-bodied vertebrate surveys conducted to date have been restricted to Cocha Cashu Biological Station, a research station covering <0.06 percent of the 1.7 Mha park. Manu Park is occupied by >460 settled Matsigenka Amerindians, 300,400 isolated Matsigenka, and several, little-known groups of isolated hunter,gatherers, yet the impact of these native Amazonians on game vertebrate populations within the park remains poorly understood. On the basis of 1495 km of standardized line-transect censuses, we present density and biomass estimates for 23 mammal, bird, and reptile species for seven lowland and upland forest sites in Manu Park, including Cocha Cashu. We compare these estimates between hunted and nonhunted sites within Manu Park, and with other Neotropical forest sites. Manu Park safeguards some of the most species-rich and highest biomass assemblages of arboreal and terrestrial mammals ever recorded in Neotropical forests, most likely because of its direct Andean influence and high levels of soil fertility. Relative to Barro Colorado Island, seed predators and arboreal folivores in Manu are rare, and generalist frugivores specializing on mature fruit pulp are abundant. The impact of such a qualitative shift in the vertebrate community on the dynamics of plant regeneration, and therefore, on our understanding of tropical plant ecology, must be profound. Despite a number of external threats, Manu Park continues to serve as a baseline against which other Neotropical forests can be gauged. Abstract in Spanish is available at http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/btp. [source] | ||||||||||