Wild meat consumption in tropical forests spares a significant carbon footprint from the livestock production sector

Abstract Whether sustainable or not, wild meat consumption is a reality for millions of tropical forest dwellers. Yet estimates of spared greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from consuming wild meat, rather than protein from the livestock sector, have not been quantified. We show that a mean per capita w...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales:	André Valle Nunes, Carlos A. Peres, Pedro de Araujo Lima Constantino, Erich Fischer, Martin Reinhardt Nielsen
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/d8499f6c195e43cd9dbdd330a84a9018
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:d8499f6c195e43cd9dbdd330a84a9018
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d8499f6c195e43cd9dbdd330a84a90182021-12-02T19:16:18ZWild meat consumption in tropical forests spares a significant carbon footprint from the livestock production sector10.1038/s41598-021-98282-42045-2322https://doaj.org/article/d8499f6c195e43cd9dbdd330a84a90182021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-98282-4https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Whether sustainable or not, wild meat consumption is a reality for millions of tropical forest dwellers. Yet estimates of spared greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from consuming wild meat, rather than protein from the livestock sector, have not been quantified. We show that a mean per capita wild meat consumption of 41.7 kg yr−1 for a population of ~ 150,000 residents at 49 Amazonian and Afrotropical forest sites can spare ~ 71 MtCO2-eq annually under a bovine beef substitution scenario, but only ~ 3 MtCO2-eq yr−1 if this demand is replaced by poultry. Wild meat offtake by these communities could generate US$3M or US$185K in carbon credit revenues under an optimistic scenario (full compliance with the Paris Agreement by 2030; based on a carbon price of US$50/tCO2-eq) and US$1M or US$77K under a conservative scenario (conservative carbon price of US$20.81/tCO2-eq), representing considerable incentives for forest conservation and potential revenues for local communities. However, the wild animal protein consumption of ~ 43% of all consumers in our sample was below the annual minimum per capita rate required to prevent human malnutrition. We argue that managing wild meat consumption can serve the interests of climate change mitigation efforts in REDD + accords through avoided GHG emissions from the livestock sector, but this requires wildlife management that can be defined as verifiably sustainable.André Valle NunesCarlos A. PeresPedro de Araujo Lima ConstantinoErich FischerMartin Reinhardt NielsenNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2021)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	EN
topic	Medicine R Science Q
spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q André Valle Nunes Carlos A. Peres Pedro de Araujo Lima Constantino Erich Fischer Martin Reinhardt Nielsen Wild meat consumption in tropical forests spares a significant carbon footprint from the livestock production sector
description	Abstract Whether sustainable or not, wild meat consumption is a reality for millions of tropical forest dwellers. Yet estimates of spared greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from consuming wild meat, rather than protein from the livestock sector, have not been quantified. We show that a mean per capita wild meat consumption of 41.7 kg yr−1 for a population of ~ 150,000 residents at 49 Amazonian and Afrotropical forest sites can spare ~ 71 MtCO2-eq annually under a bovine beef substitution scenario, but only ~ 3 MtCO2-eq yr−1 if this demand is replaced by poultry. Wild meat offtake by these communities could generate US$3M or US$185K in carbon credit revenues under an optimistic scenario (full compliance with the Paris Agreement by 2030; based on a carbon price of US$50/tCO2-eq) and US$1M or US$77K under a conservative scenario (conservative carbon price of US$20.81/tCO2-eq), representing considerable incentives for forest conservation and potential revenues for local communities. However, the wild animal protein consumption of ~ 43% of all consumers in our sample was below the annual minimum per capita rate required to prevent human malnutrition. We argue that managing wild meat consumption can serve the interests of climate change mitigation efforts in REDD + accords through avoided GHG emissions from the livestock sector, but this requires wildlife management that can be defined as verifiably sustainable.
format	article
author	André Valle Nunes Carlos A. Peres Pedro de Araujo Lima Constantino Erich Fischer Martin Reinhardt Nielsen
author_facet	André Valle Nunes Carlos A. Peres Pedro de Araujo Lima Constantino Erich Fischer Martin Reinhardt Nielsen
author_sort	André Valle Nunes
title	Wild meat consumption in tropical forests spares a significant carbon footprint from the livestock production sector
title_short	Wild meat consumption in tropical forests spares a significant carbon footprint from the livestock production sector
title_full	Wild meat consumption in tropical forests spares a significant carbon footprint from the livestock production sector
title_fullStr	Wild meat consumption in tropical forests spares a significant carbon footprint from the livestock production sector
title_full_unstemmed	Wild meat consumption in tropical forests spares a significant carbon footprint from the livestock production sector
title_sort	wild meat consumption in tropical forests spares a significant carbon footprint from the livestock production sector
publisher	Nature Portfolio
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/d8499f6c195e43cd9dbdd330a84a9018
work_keys_str_mv	AT andrevallenunes wildmeatconsumptionintropicalforestssparesasignificantcarbonfootprintfromthelivestockproductionsector AT carlosaperes wildmeatconsumptionintropicalforestssparesasignificantcarbonfootprintfromthelivestockproductionsector AT pedrodearaujolimaconstantino wildmeatconsumptionintropicalforestssparesasignificantcarbonfootprintfromthelivestockproductionsector AT erichfischer wildmeatconsumptionintropicalforestssparesasignificantcarbonfootprintfromthelivestockproductionsector AT martinreinhardtnielsen wildmeatconsumptionintropicalforestssparesasignificantcarbonfootprintfromthelivestockproductionsector
_version_	1718377000075264000

Wild meat consumption in tropical forests spares a significant carbon footprint from the livestock production sector

Ejemplares similares