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Wildlife Lasting Management the Long of the Conkouati-Douli National Park
Coastline to Congo-Brazzaville
Makosso-Vheiye Georges
1
,
Massamba Alphonse
2
,
Massamba Joachim
1
,
Silou Thomas
1
1
Faculty of Science, Marien Ngouabi University, BP 69, Brazzaville, Congo
2
Laboratory of Nutrition, Health, Human and Motor function Superior Institute of Physical Training and Sports, Marien Ngouabi University, BP 1100,
Brazzaville, Congo
Corresponding authors email:
gmaktan@yahoo.fr
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International Journal of Molecular Zoology, 2012, Vol.2, No.7 doi: 10.5376/ijmz.2012.02.0007
Received: 7 Oct., 2012
Accepted: 23 Oct., 2012
Published: 16 Nov., 2012
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Makosso-Vheiye et al., 2012, Wildlife Lasting Management the Long of the Conkouati-Douli National Park Coastline to Congo-Brazzaville, Intl. J. of
Molecular Zoology, Vol.2, No.7, 55
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61
(
doi: 10.5376/ijmz.2012.02.0007)
Abstract
A transverse study has been led to the Conkouati-Douli National Park (CDNP), among hunters of the region, in order to
identify hunters and convenient there pertaining. The investigation, achieved by means of a questionnaire, concerned 52 hunters.
Their mean age was of 48.2 years (range: 18~62 years old). Males practised essentially hunt activity. The most group for age was
represented by hunters aged less than 46 years (76.9%; p<0.01). Concerning the matrimonial status, 2 topics on three were bachelors.
However, most of them (90.4%) had people to load: 46.2% (inferior to 5 peoples), 44.2% between 5 and 10 peoples. Besides, the
matrimonial status didn’t link to the type of hunt practised. Hunt was practised all along the year, but with the seasonal variations in
dejected game term. Otherwise, 90.4% of these hunters were some permanent residents. Hunt constituted a main activity of the
household chief for 67.3% (p<0.01). Among these subjects, 63.5% (p<0.02) of hunters practised an activity of subsistence. Facilities,
bought in majority (p<0.001), were dominated by the rifle. In conclusion, hunt within the Conkouati-Douli National Park remain an
important part of the food for the population living in the forest. In fact, it exists very little or not of alternatives of rising to provide
the sufficient animal protein to communities. However, the diversity of hunt practices contributes to the overexploit of the game,
therefore to rarity and/or to the certain species disappearance. Consequently, good governance improves management of the bush
meat often integrating claiming of the poor farming populations in majority and needs of the conservation of the resource:
"
wild fauna".
Keywords
Convenient of hunt; Lasting management; Wild fauna; Conkouati-Douli National Park; Congo (Brazzaville)
Introduction
In sub-Saharan Africa the practice of hunt to aims of
consumption of the bush meat is an important activity
in farming environment to assure food to populations.
In the forest zones without culture and to the
unfavorable pastoral environment it exists only very
little or not of alternatives of rising to provide the
sufficient animal protein to communities. As one can
note it, the meat of bush remains the main and
essential source of the animal proteins thus, specially
in forest environment, in many country of Central
Africa, notably to Congo. However, since some decades,
the naivety or the timidity of fauna administrators and
the humid tropical forest biodiversity relieved by
scientific surrounding concerns, made emerge notions
of "Bushmeat crisis", and the perception of empty
forest. Hunt, even classic, is accused then to put in
peril the animal life in forests of the Congo basin
(
Fargeot, 2004; 2005). The problematic of the bush
meat in farming environment supported regularly on
the game clear soup by the farming communities
(
Tutu et al., 1993); it is constituted by more than 76%
of meat of blue duiker and African brush-tailed
porcupine, follow-up of bay (
Cephalophus dorsalis
)
and
white-bellied (
Cephalophus leucogaster
)
duikers and
some species of monkey, specially the Cercopithecus
monkeys. The heaviest terrestrial and arboreal
mammals occupy a middle position among the other
consumed species. Concerning the coastal zone of the
south of Congo, particularly the one of the
Conkouati-Douli National Park (CDNP), the
development of hunt is supposed to be bound to the