Stratégies nouvelles et recompositions sociales autour de la faune dans le Bassin du Congo

• Main Authors: Doucet JL., Vermeulen C.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux 2006-01-01
• Series: Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement
• Subjects: Wildlife management; conservation; logging concessions; anti-poaching control; Congo Basin
• Online Access: http://www.pressesagro.be/base/text/v10n3/251.pdf

New strategies and social blending around wildlife in Congo Basin. The faunaʼs overexploitation in the Congo basin in general and within logging concessions in particular case still appears as a crucial problematic. Commercial poaching threats not only mammal biodiversity but also long-term food safety of local populations. Strangely, this situation is generating a new and collective answer from stakeholders having opposite interests. Administrative authorities, international NGOs of conservation, logging companies have found in the context of wood certification a common deal to begin an anti-poaching action on large landscapes. This study analyses interests of each stakeholder and discusses the place given to populations in this social blending around wildlife.