Diagnóstico socio-ambiental del uso de fauna silvestre en el Bosque Protector Alto Nangaritza Región Sur del Ecuador

Abstract

Abstract: The Alto Nangaritza Protected Forest, located in the southeast of Ecuador, in the province of Zamora Chinchipe, is home to the Shuar culture, which has ventured into these lands and interacted with the forest for over half a century. While hunting has been one of the main survival strategies for Amazonian indigenous communities (Zapata, 2000a), the changes in the distribution and intensity of natural resource use that have occurred since European colonization, along with the specific characteristics of the Upper Nangaritza Basin, have made this activity unsustainable and could be considered one of the main causes of wildlife extinction at the local level.