Hunting for Sustainability in Tropical Forests

Book Overview

Throughout the world people are concerned about the demise of tropical forests and their wildlife. Hunting by forest-dwelling people has a dramatic effect on wildlife in many tropical forests, frequently driving species to local extinction, with devastating implications for other species and the health of the forests themselves. But wildlife is an important source of protein and cash for rural peoples. Can hunting be managed to conserve biological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231109768
• ISBN13: 9780231109765
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 1000 Pages
• Weight: 2.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 10.0"