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Table 2 Influence of age on the use of the dejected game
Effective
n (Percentage)
Consumption
n (Percentage)
Consumption-sale
n (Percentage)
Sale
n (Percentage)
<18years old
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1 (4.5%)
21 (95.5%)
0
18
to 35years old
22 (42.3%)
0
17 (94.4%)
1 (5.6%)
36
to 53years old
18 (34.6%)
1 (8.3%)
10 (83.3%)
1 (8.3%)
>53years old
12 (23.1%)
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-
-
Total
52 (100%)
2 (3.8%)
48 (92.3%)
2 (3.8%)
This overexploitation dresses several shapes. Most
frequent rest on one hand on an artisanal and
occasional poaching intended to the restocking of
villagers. This last is characterized by the rudimentary
method use, although one observes the use marked of
wire-ropes more and more. Of the other one notes a
semi-industrial poaching that delivers him to the
intensive massacres of animals for a lucrative goal. It
exercises itself with the modern weapons specialized
for the thick game and sometimes of weapons and
munitions of war maladjusted to hunt. The
maladjusted governance to the management of the
bush meat to Congo is therefore to the origin of
unsuitability between the preoccupation of animal
species preservation, the social justice, the fairness
and the food security. The improvement of the popular
and local production of the bush meat would pass then
by a stake in work of management strategies; it would
suppose a real legalization of the activity of traffic of
the bush meat. For it, to the look of the importance of
the consumption of the game in the food of the
Congolese populations, it proves to be necessary to
integrate claiming of the farming populations
disinherited, but neglected screws to political interest
screw, environmental and economic more and more
powerful.
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Materials and Methods
4.1
Type of Survey and Geographical Situation
It is about a nutritional survey, transverse study
achieved of September 2010 to November 2011 and
that carried on the riparian communities of the
Conkouati-Douli National Park. This protected area is
situated in the southwesterly part of Congo, on
horseback between under-prefectures of Madingo
Kaye, Nzambi and Kakamoeka, very close to the
maritime facade (Figure1). The Conkouati-Douli
National Park spreads between 3°23~4°18 and
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°06~11°43 ES (Hecketsweiler, 1990, Sokal and
Rohlf, 1995). It is limited to the north by the border
with Gabon, to the East by savannas of Cotovindo, to
the west by the Atlantic Ocean and to the south by
the Conkouati lagoon and the Ngongo River (PNCD
and WCS, 2005).
4.2
Sampling
To the total 5 513 people composed the population
living in and around the park at the time of the survey.
The sampling operated itself after determination of the
general population; the population target was
constituted of hunters of every riparian village. Two
uncertain pulls with two fractions of 1/10 have been
done in the population of the survey by village. Every
village is divided in districts, which are subdivided in
blocks. To ends of representation the selection of
districts and blocks within a village has been achieved
according to a pull at 1/3 for every entity. The sample
has been constituted by pull to 1/3 and two degrees:
the district and the block for villages where resided
more than 20 hunters. For a population lower to 20
hunters, all these last were included in the sample. So,
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blocks have been kept to the descended of this
process. Were included in this investigation people
living in the zone of the park and practicing hunt like
main activity, since more of 5 or 10 years, or regularly.
The other criteria of eligibility were the practice of
hunt and the permanent residence in the Conkouati-
Douli National Park (sector of the investigation).
From the identified households, the fashion of
minimal pull at 1/10, fraction admitted at the time of
the national investigations (Martin, 1983) permitted to
select 52 hunters. This process also took account of
the geographical situation of the habitable zones
(
number of slots in the village, surface). The hunter's
choice as statistical unit permitted to collect the
wanted information (information on the household
and members of the household), while interrogating