A caça na Terra Indígena Xerente: pesquisa participativa e a dinâmica da caça no Cerrado brasileiro

Abstract

Community-based research that use participatory monitoring has been used broadly in studies about hunting activities in traditional societies, either indigenous or not, in Neotropics. This enabled to assess the impact of hunting on wildlife and bring into evidence cultural, temporal and spatial patterns of use this resource, and also have enabled to assess future scenarios of impact of hunting and interaction between anthropic and ecological aspects on game in computational modeling. This study show outcomes of six months of Participatory Monitoring of Hunting (PMH) in 10 villages in Xerente Indigenous Land (XIL) situated in the Brazilian Cerrado, as a method of obtain information about exploitation of the local game species. Fifty-two hunters, wherein three are no indigenous, registered 266 successful events of hunting, with 31 species hunted, 308 animals killed and 3.995,1 kg harvested. Medium and large sizes mammals were the most representatives. Cuniculus paca (paca) was the species most harvested. Even that the outcomes of PMH are of small spatial and temporal scale, it enables to help in understanding of level currently of exploitation of game and modifications in traditional hunting system. Implications this outcomes for future research about game in XIL and in others traditional communities in Cerrado are presented.