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Item Open Access LED flashlight technology facilitates wild meat extraction across the tropics(Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2020-11-01) Bowler, M; Beirne, C; Tobler, MW; Anderson, M; DiPaola, A; Fa, JE; Gilmore, MP; Lemos, LP; Mayor, P; Meier, A; Menie, GM; Meza, D; Moreno-Gutierrez, D; Poulsen, JR; de Souza Jesus, A; Valsecchi, J; El Bizri, HRHunting for wild meat in the tropics provides subsistence and income for millions of people. Methods have remained relatively unchanged since the introduction of shotguns and battery-powered incandescent flashlights, but the short battery life of such flashlights has limited nocturnal hunting. However, hunters in many countries throughout the tropics have recently begun to switch to brighter and more efficient light-emitting diode (LED) flashlights. Such brighter spotlights stimulate the freeze response of many species, and improved battery life allows hunters to pursue game more often and for longer periods of time. Interviews with hunters in African and South American tropical forests revealed that LEDs increase the frequency and efficiency of nocturnal hunting, and subsequently the number of kills made. In Brazil, these findings were supported by harvest data. The marked change in efficiency brought about by LEDs, well known to hunters around the world, poses a major threat to wildlife. Here we consider the implications of the increasing use of LED lights in hunting for communities, governments, wildlife managers, and conservationists.Item Open Access Synthesising bushmeat research effort in West and Central Africa: A new regional database(Biological Conservation, 2015-01-01) Taylor, G; Scharlemann, JPW; Rowcliffe, M; Kümpel, N; Harfoot, MBJ; Fa, JE; Melisch, R; Milner-Gulland, EJ; Bhagwat, S; Abernethy, KA; Ajonina, AS; Albrechtsen, L; Allebone-Webb, S; Brown, E; Brugiere, D; Clark, C; Colell, M; Cowlishaw, G; Crookes, D; De Merode, E; Dupain, J; East, T; Edderai, D; Elkan, P; Gill, D; Greengrass, E; Hodgkinson, C; Ilambu, O; Jeanmart, P; Juste, J; Linder, JM; Macdonald, DW; Noss, AJ; Okorie, PU; Okouyi, VJJ; Pailler, S; Poulsen, JR; Riddell, M; Schleicher, J; Schulte-Herbrüggen, Björn; Starkey, M; van Vliet, N; Whitham, C; Willcox, AS; Wilkie, DS; Wright, JH; Coad, LM© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. Unsustainable hunting threatens both biodiversity and local livelihoods. Despite high levels of research effort focused on understanding the dynamics of bushmeat trade and consumption, current research is largely site specific. Without synthesis and quantitative analysis of available case studies, the national and regional characteristics of bushmeat trade and consumption remain largely speculative, impeding efforts to inform national and regional policy on bushmeat trade. Here we describe the structure and content of the West and Central African bushmeat database which holds quantitative data on bushmeat sales, consumption and offtake for 177 species from 275 sites across 11 countries in two regions, spanning three decades of research. Despite this wealth of available data, we found important biases in research effort. The majority of studies in West and Central Africa have collected market data, which although providing a useful record of bushmeat sales, are limited in their ability to track changes in hunting offtake. In addition, few data exist for West Africa, and few studies have tracked changes over time, using repeat sampling. With new initiatives in the regions to track bushmeat hunting, this database represents an opportunity to synthesise current and future data on bushmeat hunting, consumption and trade in West and Central Africa, identify gaps in current understanding, and systematically target future monitoring efforts.