Managing Forest Wildlife For Human Livelihoods In The Korup-oban Hills Region, West-central Africa: A Multi-agent Systems Model To Assess Socio-economic And Ecological Sustainability

General Information Bushmeat consumption, the consumption of meat from wild forest animals, is an important part of livelihoods in rural West- and Central Africa. In the Congo Basin, bushmeat protein supply was estimated at 30 g person'1 day'1 (Democratic Republique of Congo) to 180 g person'1 day'1 (Gabon) (2002-2003). Based on extraction-production models it has been suggested that supply would drop by 81% by 2050 in a ‘no-change’ scenario of current extraction levels (Fa et al. 2003). In order to secure this resource for the future, sustainable harvesting in community-based wildlife managem…