Denny Sean, Coad Lauren, Jones Sorrel, Ingram Daniel J
Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States.
Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia.
Bioscience. 2025 Apr 9;75(4):284-297. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biaf014. eCollection 2025 Apr.
Snaring is considered to be the most common form of hunting in Africa. Although snaring can provide hunters with valuable food and income, it can also devastate wildlife populations when practiced unsustainably and has significant animal welfare implications. Snaring can also be wasteful, both when animals escape with fatal injuries and when catch is discarded. In the present article, we argue that snaring is a regional-scale threat to wildlife and to the sustainable use of biodiversity in Africa. We show that snaring in Africa is geographically widespread and locally intense, that tens of millions of snares are likely set across the continent annually, and that at least 100 million kilograms of wild meat is probably wasted in Africa every year because of snaring. We discuss opportunities to address these impacts through changes to governance and enforcement and by reducing demand for wild meat in cities.
在非洲，设陷阱捕猎被认为是最常见的狩猎形式。尽管设陷阱捕猎能为猎人提供宝贵的食物和收入，但如果以不可持续的方式进行，也会对野生动物种群造成破坏，并对动物福利产生重大影响。当动物受致命伤逃脱或捕获物被丢弃时，设陷阱捕猎还可能造成浪费。在本文中，我们认为设陷阱捕猎是对非洲野生动物以及生物多样性可持续利用的一种区域性威胁。我们表明，非洲的设陷阱捕猎在地理上分布广泛且局部地区情况严重，每年整个非洲大陆可能布设数千万个陷阱，并且由于设陷阱捕猎，非洲每年可能至少浪费1亿公斤的野味。我们讨论了通过改变治理和执法方式以及减少城市对野味的需求来应对这些影响的机会。
