BACKGROUND Due to the influence of several factors on the hunting of game meat, we investigated how the seasonality of the environment, the abundance, and the biomass of wild animals, as well as the proximity to these resources, can affect the hunting. METHODS The research was developed with the Fulni-ô people in the municipality of Águas Belas, Agreste of Pernambuco, Northeast of Brazil. In order to do this, we applied snowball sampling to select the participants. Data from potentially useful game species were obtained from lists and semi-structured interviews to register their particular kind of uses, capture periods (daytime, night, or both), preferences, and perceived abundance. The hunters who allowed their game meat captured to be weighed and identified were followed for 1 year. RESULTS Our records pointed to a vast repertoire of potentially hunting animals. However, we did not verify relationships between the abundance, seasonality, and biomass of the animals that were hunted by the Fulni-ô. We observed a total of 209,866 (kg) of game meat hunted in the studied group, belonging to 23 species, distributed in three taxonomic groups, the birds being the most representative group with 59% of total reported. CONCLUSION Such consumption by the group is well below in terms of biomass when compared to other ethnic or local groups in other regions of Brazil, or in Caatinga areas, characterizing an activity much more of cultural character than subsistence. Also, the use of game meat among the Fulni-ô seems to be actively directed to the preferred species, suggesting that in the case of an urbanized indigenous community, where other sources of income are available, the demand for game meat is lower when compared to other ethnic groups.

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巴西东北部富尔尼奥人对野生动物的利用：对保护的影响。


背景由于多种因素对野味狩猎的影响，我们调查了环境的季节性、野生动物的丰度和生物量以及与这些资源的接近程度如何影响狩猎。方法 这项研究是与巴西东北部伯南布哥州阿格雷斯特阿瓜斯贝拉斯市的 Fulni-ô 人共同开展的。为了做到这一点，我们采用滚雪球抽样来选择参与者。潜在有用的游戏物种的数据是从列表和半结构化访谈中获得的，以记录其特定用途、捕获周期（白天、夜间或两者）、偏好和感知丰富度。对捕获的猎物进行称重和鉴定的猎人被跟踪了一年。结果我们的记录表明存在大量潜在的狩猎动物。然而，我们没有验证富尼奥人猎杀的动物的丰度、季节性和生物量之间的关系。我们观察到研究组中总共猎获了 209,866 公斤野味，属于 23 个物种，分布在三个分类群中，其中鸟类是最具代表性的类群，占报告总数的 59%。结论 与巴西其他地区或卡廷加地区的其他民族或地方群体相比，该群体的生物量消耗远低于其他民族或当地群体，这表明该群体的活动更具文化特征而不是生存。此外，富尔尼奥人对野味的使用似乎积极针对首选物种，这表明在城市化的土著社区中，如果有其他收入来源，对野味的需求较低。到其他民族。