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The WILDMEAT Interventions Database
Jasmin Willis
Research Consultant, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Visiting Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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What is the WILDMEAT Project?
1. Make the best available data and
information on wild meat available to
policy makers, practitioners, scientists,
stakeholders;
2. Standardize our approaches to collecting
and using this data.
• Management of wild meat can be
underpinned by evidence;
• Evidence comes from robust sources
and research;
• Evidence is easily available to anyone
who wants it.
To ensure that…
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Interventions Database
Database of projects implementing wild meat
interventions, starting with projects in Central
Africa active between 2000 and 2021.
Included five types of intervention:
• Alternative livelihood (protein and income)
• Law enforcement
• Hunting management
• Awareness raising activities
• Demand reduction campaigns.
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Interventions Database
285 projects
225 implementers
116 donors
10 countries
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Interventions Database
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Trends in wild meat interventions
Awareness raising
Law enforcement
Alternative income
Hunting management
Alternative protein
Demand reduction campaign
Number of interventions
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How to use the online platform
Online platform
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Next steps
A collation of current
knowledge on the different
wild meat management
approaches.
WILDMEAT
Interventions
Database
However…
Hub of information on
the effectiveness of
these management
approaches.
• Few projects monitored and evaluated their outcomes
• Project details were often unpublished
Consequently…
• We will gather more information on project outcomes by interviewing a number of
project implementers, donors and participants.
• We are aiming to make this information available in 2022.
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Help us to create the first global evidence-base for the hunting, consumption and
trade of wildlife.
We welcome feedback on the interventions database and let us know of additional
projects.
Please contact the WILDMEAT team at:
• info@wildmeat.org
• jasmin.willis@zoo.ox.ac.uk
Or visit our website www.wildmeat.org
Thank you!
Support Us
Overview of the WILDMEAT project more generally. It is a collaboration between CIFOR, University of Stirling and the Wildlife Conservation Society.
The aim of the project is to make the best information on wild meat available to anyone working on the topic, so we are creating three tools to help do this.
The WILDMEAT database, which will contain information on wild meat hunting, consumption and trade worldwide; the WILDMEAT library which will contain up to date research on wild meat; and the WILDMEAT toolkit which will contain standardised research methods and templates to monitor wild meat hunting, consumption, and trade.
I’m going to talk about a secondary database that we created, which contains projects that implement wild meat interventions. Similar to the WILDMEAT database, this interventions database aims to provide those working in wild meat with the best available evidence to design effective management interventions.
We selected projects that aimed to manage or reduce wild meat use at a specific site. We started with projects based in Central Africa that were active between 2000 and the start of this year, but we will be expanding this to include other locations in the future.
Five types of intervention were included: Alternative livelihood (protein and income), law enforcement, hunting management, awareness raising activities, demand reduction campaigns.
Here you can see the structure of the database. Projects with multiple locations were split so each location is a separate project with an overarching parent project. Projects can consist of multiple interventions. An intervention is one component of a project that implements a certain activity (e.g., one of the five intervention types above).
As of July 2021, the interventions database includes 285 projects from 10 countries, implemented by 225 organisations and funded by 116 donors.
From looking at the database, we can see that a wide range of projects have been used to help manage wildmeat. Figure 1 shows the distribution of the projects across the 10 Central African countries.
You can see that the projects are concentrated in a few countries: Cameroon had the highest number of projects (82), followed by the DRC (69), and ROC (67). Only four projects were identified in Burundi and one in Chad. Although it should be noted that this isn’t a definitive list – these are the projects we identified while compiling the database.
This slide shows a breakdown of the top donors and implementing organisations. United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) was a donor for the most projects (92 projects, approximately 32% of the 285 projects in the database), followed by The Rufford Foundation (42).
Major international NGOs featured most frequently as implementation organisations, including the Wildlife Conservation Society (54) and WWF (26 projects).
Breakdown by intervention type. Over half of the projects implemented alternative livelihood interventions and it was the most used intervention. This is split into alternative income and protein in Figure 4. Animal farming was the most frequently used alternative income and protein.
There were 136 awareness raising interventions in the database and Figure 5 shows that the number of awareness raising interventions has steadily risen since 2000. There is also a consistently increasing number of Law Enforcement interventions.
There were only 10 demand reduction campaigns in the database, however Figure 5 shows an uptick in this type of intervention since around 2010, which coincides with an increased focus on reducing demand for wild meat, particularly in urban consumers.
Created an online platform for users to explore the database. It isn’t yet live, but I’m going to give you a quick preview of the platform.
Map showing project locations, click on icon or select project from list on left hand side. Can search by keyword or country. Series of graphs giving some insights into the database as well.
More information on the project and our partners, and you can also download the data from here.
The interventions database helps to collate current knowledge on different approaches to managing wild meat. But we want also the database to also provide information on the effectiveness of these interventions.
However, a lot of projects in the database are small-scale projects with limited funding so details of the projects are not always published and very few of them monitored and evaluated their outcomes. So its difficult for us to determine their effectiveness based on just the information we have found.
As a result, this year we will be interviewing a number of project implementers, donors and participants to find out more information on their project outcomes. We are aiming to make this information available next year as part of the Interventions Database.
You can support our work by giving us feedback on the interventions database and online platform, and letting us know of any additional projects that could be added to the database.
Email us.
