ANTH 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Infant Mortality, Sexual Dimorphism, Carbon Offset
2 Mar 2018
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Habitat loss: from 2000-2012: 2. 3m km2 forest lost. This lost area could have supported ~15m primates. Logging happens from international companies, but also locally for firewood collection. Area the size of ireland is logged every year. Sold as smoked meat (smoked in hunting camps or in villages) Sold for parts (fur, scales: hunting tools. Snares: little information is known on hunting because it is hard to interview hunters (illegal activity, only information known comes from markets, 4m primates consumed annually in amazon. Market value = m (estimated 16 years ago) Disease: hard to study, not much information. It is very hard to estimate population densities in most areas: we have 1 statistic saying that ebola is related to gorilla and chimp decline, there is exchange of disease between humans and primates. Climate change: warmed by 0. 6deg in past 100 years. No idea what the large scale, long term impacts will be: steady increase in rainfall in kibale.
