A. Species
Scientific name: Emberiza melanocephala
Common name(s): Black-headed Bunting
Global IUCN Red List Threat Status: Least Concern
B. Location of use
Geographic location(s):
- Nepal
Country/Region:
C. Scale of assessment
Scale of assessment: Regional/Continental/Multi-country level
Name/Details of location: six districts of Madhesh Province
D. Timescale of use
Start Year: 2018
End Year: 2019
E. Information about the use
How is the wild species sourced?: Wild species sourced from its natural habitat
Type of use: Extractive
Practice of use: Hunting and/or Trapping of live terrestrial and aerial animals
Lethal or non-lethal: Lethal
Does this use involve take/extraction of: The whole entire organism
Purpose(s) of end use: Food and feed and Ceremony, religious, and ritual expression
Motivation of use: Income generation from trade (individual/household/community) and Largescale commercial exploitation for trade
Is this use legal or illegal?: Illegal under national law
F. Information about the Users
Which stakeholder(s) does the record primarily focus on?: Local people
G. Information about the sustainability of use
Is there evidence that the use is having an impact on the target species?: Wild species sourced from its natural habitat
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an ecological perspective been recorded?: Yes, considered unsustainable
Brief summary on why the use has been assessed/judged to be sustainable or unsustainable: decline in farmland species
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an economic perspective been recorded?: not recorded
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from a social perspective been recorded?: not recorded
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from a human health perspective been recorded?: not recorded
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an animal health/welfare perspective been recorded?: not recorded
Recommendations provided in the record to maintain or enhance the sustainability of the use of the target species
To discourage trapping and trade of birds, we suggests that 1) the government and conservation agencies should provide alternate means of income to the people who rely significantly on the Bagedi business, particularly the trappers and the middlemen; 2) bird identification and awareness initiatives on the status, ecology and ecosystem provided by birds to local trappers, as well as to school children, the community, and consumers through newspaper/magazine programs. Additionally, Bagedi can also be promoted and linked with cultural (e.g., initiating the friends of Bagedi), conservation (e.g., ecological significance), and commercial values (e.g., ecotourism) in order to boost popularity among the general public to discourage trapping and eating, similar to the initiatives taken for the most trapped Amur Falcon (Falco amurensis) in Northeast India (see Aiyadurai and Banerjee, 2020); 3) provide information regarding the penalties for trapping, trading, and consuming wild birds in Nepal; 4) initiate programs to change the attitudes and behaviors of consumers, such as shifting to farmed species (e.g., quail species); 5) detail survey on Madhesh and other provinces of Nepal to estimate the national scale of Bagedi trapping and its impact on bird populations.
Record source
Information about the record source: own_res_data_knowledge
Date of publication/issue/production: 2023-01-01T00:00:00+0000
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Date of record entry: 2024-07-10