Fast-growing indigenous populations hunting for bushmeat inside national parks must be a huge threat to wildlife, right? Well, not necessarily. A study in , on the edge of the Amazon rainforest in Peru, has found “little or no evidence” that any of the most hunted species are in decline, despite a doubling of the numbers of the local Matsigenka tribe in the past two decades.
For years conservationists have warned that the thousand or so Matsigenka people living and hunting in Manu were taking too many birds and mammals, threatening the future of one of the world’s richest…
