Is the use part of a strategy to generate conservation incentives, to finance conservation, or to improve tolerance/stewardship?
Yes
Is there evidence that the use is affecting the conservation status of the species? HIDE
Unknown/not recorded
Is there evidence that the use is affecting natural selection?
Unknown/not recorded
Is there evidence that the use is affecting poaching of illegal wildlife trade?
Unknown/not reported
Is there any evidence that this use of the species is having a knock-on effect on the status of non-target species
Unknown/not recorded
Unknown/not recorded
Yes, considered sustainable
Details of assessment carried out
Authors show that the levels of species exploitation are sustainable. The gradual reduction in the annual hunting effort, due to a decrease in number of hunters and hunting season duration, reduced the total number of anacondas harvested. Conversely, captures per unit effort increased across the study time-period. Concluded that the harvest was sustainable, since there were no significant declines on analysed parameters over the study period (2002-present).
Has a valuation of financial flows from this use at the site/national/international level been recorded
Has any assessment of socio-economic sustainability been recorded
Yes, considered sustainable
Details of assessment
The program is bringing monetary and social benefits to traditional communities.
However, benefits from participation are not constant. For instance, as a consequence of the 2013 drought, the hunting was prohibited during this particular year, with a subsequent decline in Programa Curiyú productivity, the abandonment of this activity by hunters who sought alternative sources of employment, and a reduction of income of those hunters who remained accredited to the program
Has the use of the species been recorded as resulting in changes to human health in this record?
Unknown/not recorded
Has the species in use been noted as being of particular disease risk to humans?
Unknown/not recorded
Has the use of the species resulted in changes to animal welfare in this record?
Unknown/not recorded
Are there particular practices which have increased the risk to human or animal health or welfare in the use of this species?
Unknown/not recorded
Does the use of this species increase susceptibility to pathogen spread?
Unknown/not recorded
Unknown/not recorded
Strong community governance/institutions/rights for wildlife management
Absent
Supportive policy and legislative framework
Absent
Adequate capacity to implement and enforce governance arrangements
Absent
Good alignment of legal protections with local cultural values and traditional
Absent
Support from NGOs
Absent
Support from Government
Absent
High financial returns from use
Absent
Abundant population of target species
Absent
Biological characteristics of target species
Absent
Capacity building of community
Absent
Establishment and implementation of species and/or area management plan
Present
Effective private sector approach engagement through certification
Camera, B., Stüssmann, C., Quintana, I., Waller, T., Barros, M., & Draque, J. et al. (2020). Assessing the sustainability of yellow anaconda (Eunectes notaeus) harvest in northeastern Argentina. doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-109402/v1
adaptive management through limiting the minimum anaconda length, number of hunters and restricting the hunting season. Despite an observed decrease in annual captures, this is related to the reduction in hunting effort, and not to a decline in the availability of anacondas in the marsh.