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Studies should then be conducted to determine at
what level management procedures can be most
effective by testing alternative programs.
The most effective management techniques should
then be implemented.
Peccary populations, hunters and markets should
be continually monitored and management programs
adjusted to changing conditions. Potential
options for the improved management of peccary
populations, which can be implemented at the animal,
hunter, and market levels, are outlined as follows:
(a) Animal population level-encourage
increased size of peccary populations by slowing
destruction of natural habitats (e.g. rainforests and
the Chaco); introduce ranching or captive propagation
of peccaries, with appropriate genetic and
demographic management; (b) Hunter levelprohibit
or strictly regulate certain categories of hunting
(e.g. commercial hunting for meat or hides,
hunting by lumber and fuel company employees);
implement male only hunts; implement comprehensive
hunting quotas or quotas for commercial
hunting categories; introduce education programs
to teach hunters about overexploitation and the
need to avoid harvesting certain age/sex classes;
and regulate distribution of arms and ammunition;
(c) Meat market level-establish inspection posts
where peccary meat must be authorized prior to
being sold in market stalls or restaurants; allow sale
of only male peccary meat; set quotas or prohibit
the sale of peccary meat in food markets; initiate
education programs directed towards urban consumers
to decrease the demand for peccary meat;
implement tax controls to maintain artificially low
wholesale prices in order to reduce producer profits
and lessen incentives for commercial meat hunting
while also maintaining high retail prices high to
deter consumers; and permit profits from this trade
to be used to support these management programs;
(d) Pelt market level-support efforts of CITES to
monitor the hide trade and improve monitoring of
the international trade between producer nations
in South America; encourage the development of
peccary management programs, especially in producer
countries; initiate education programs in the
major importing countries in order to decrease consumer
demand (thereby also reducing retail prices
and incentives for commercial hide hunters);
impose wholesale price controls and/or control
wholesale outlets while also implementing sales
taxes to maintain high retail prices to deter commercial
interests at the producer and consumer
level; permit profits to be recycled into peccary
management programs.
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