Strategy to Identify Areas of Use of Amazon River dolphins

• DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.838988
• Publication Date: 2022-04-20T07:10:49Z
• Authors: Federico Mosquera...; Fernando Trujillo; Jairo Pérez-Torres; Hugo Mantilla-Meluk; Nicole Franco-León; Mariana Paschoalini; María J. Valderrama; José S. Usma Oviedo; Elizabeth Campbell; Joanna Alfaro-Shi...; José L. Mena; Jeffrey C. Mangel; Cédric Gilleman; Moisés Zumba; Yurasi Briceño; Kelly Y. Valencia; Paula A. Torres-F...; Leonardo Sánchez; Arnaldo Ferrer; Sebastian Barreto; Paul A. van Damme; Dolors Armenteras...
• Keywords: Bushmeat

Unsustainable fisheries practices carried out in large parts of the Amazon, Tocantins, and Orinoco basins have contributed to decline populations Amazon River dolphins ( Inia spp.), considered Endangered by International Union for Conservation Nature (IUCN). dolphin byproducts are often obtained through unregulated from stranded incidentally caught individuals that traded flesh blubber used Calophysus macropterus fisheries, traditional other medicinal purposes, more recently human consumption. To identify localities use dolphins, we conducted a systematic review related literature published since 1980, complemented with structured surveys researchers allowed identification 57 uses (33 two 22 basins), on Brazilian Atlantic coast, recent reports targeted consumption upper River. Subsequently, or bushmeat markets where trafficked were identified. This information was integrated kernel density analysis distribution spp. establishing core areas. Our spatial indicated is geographically widespread evaluated basins. It urgent decision-makers direct policies towards mitigating socioeconomic cultural circumstances associated illegal affecting South America.