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Game management and cultural survival: the Yuquí Ethnodevelopment Project in lowland Bolivia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

A. M. Stearman  and
K. H. Redford
A. M. Stearman
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA.
K. H. Redford
Affiliation:
Conservation Science and Stewardship, Latin American Division, The Nature Conservancy, 1815 North Lynn Street, Arlington, VA 22209, USA.
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Abstract

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When the Yuquí Indians of Bolivia adopted a settled life-style in the 1960s, wild animals continued to be their main source of meat. As a result, game species declined in numbers around their settlement and their problems were exacerbated by colonists seeking new lands to farm. Prospects brightened in 1992 when 115,000 ha of land were designated Yuquí Indigenous Territory. This paper describes how a system of satellite camps was developed to enable the Yuquí to exploit game animals sustainably and to defend their land from encroachment.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , January 1995 , pp. 29 - 34
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1995

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