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Understanding the ethnozoological drivers and socioeconomic patterns of bird hunting in the Indian subcontinent

open access: yesJournal of Threatened Taxa
 Bird hunting and trade pose major threats to avifauna in the Indian subcontinent. Although prohibited under the Indian Wildlife Protection Act of 1972, bird poaching has continued, driven primarily by demand from the pet trade, traditional medicine ...
Anish Banerjee
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A new discipline: Ethnozoology

open access: yes, 1977
Rousseau Michel. Une discipline récente : l'Ethnozoologie. In: Bulletin de l'Académie Vétérinaire de France tome 130 n°4, 1977. pp.
Rousseau, M.   +2 more
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Interactions Between People and Birds of Prey in Semi-Arid Regions of Brazil: Ethno-Ornithology and Conservation

open access: yesBirds
How humans perceive and interact with other animal species is critical in enhancing conservation initiatives. The study recorded and analyzed people’s knowledge and perceptions of birds of prey and their interactions in three rural communities in Paraíba,
Hyago Keslley de Lucena Soares   +3 more
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Trade and ethnozoological use of African lorisiformes in the last 20 years

open access: yesHystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy, 2015
Trade in primates is considered a major impediment to primate conservation globally. The bushmeat trade in West and Central Africa is considered largely unsustainable and represents one of the main threats to biodiversity. Furthermore, the use of primates in traditional practices and medicine includes a third of the African primate species.
Svensson, Magdalena S.   +3 more
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A Semantic Menagerie: The Conceptual Semantics of Ethnozoological Categories

open access: yesRussian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN, 2018
Following the seminal work of Wierzbicka (1985, 2013), this paper proposes and discusses a set of semantic analyses of words from three different levels of the English ethnozoological taxonomic hierarchy (Berlin 1992): creature (unique beginner), bird ...
Cliff Goddard
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Positive side effects of ethnobotanical research: a first approach to remedies of animal origin in the Catalan folk medicine.

open access: yes, 2020
Trabajo presentado en el VII International Congress of Ethnobotany - I International Congress of Ethnozoology, celebrado en Recife (Brasil), del 16 al 18 de octubre de ...
Garnatje, Teresa   +3 more
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Fish in ethnozoology, belief and health tourism

open access: yes, 2021
Abstract: Like many other creatures, fish have been used as an art, belief, and ethnozoological element in different cultures. In Turkish culture, fish lags behind both other cultures and some other creatures. There are beliefs that some lakes and fish are sacred in Anatolia.
Çiçek, Erdoğan   +3 more
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Conception of the artisanal fisherfolk who use Furnas Reservoir, Minas Gerais State, about fishing stocks: an ethnoichthyological study [PDF]

open access: yesBiotemas, 2010
Ethnoichthyology, based on ecological parameters, can be a very useful tool to study man-made environmental changes. These changes are perceived by individuals who fish for a living and/or recreational activities in the impacted environs.
Valter Monteiro de Azevedo-Santos   +2 more
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Ethnozoological Study of Malay Tribal Communities in Mersam Village, Batanghari District [PDF]

open access: yes
Mersam Village is located in Mersam District, Batanghari Regency, and has many local wisdoms that are still preserved to this day. The Malay tribe, as the indigenous group, is the primary source of local wisdom in this village.
Sukmono, Tedjo   +2 more
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Understanding Local Ecological Knowledge, Ethnozoology, and Public Opinion to Improve Pangolin Conservation in the Center and East Regions of Cameroon

open access: yes, 2020
African pangolins are exceptionally difficult to monitor in the wild, which means that assessing threats and impacts to these species also remains a challenge. Local ecological knowledge (LEK) surveys have been recommended as an important tool to collect
Ghislain Difouo Fopa   +13 more
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