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5 - Comanagement of Primate Hunting in Amazonian Indigenous Reserves

A Case Study from Guyana

from Part I - The Human–Non-human Primate Interface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2019

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Christopher A. Shaffer ,
Marissa S. Milstein ,
Phillip Suse ,
Elisha Marawanaru  and
Charakura Yukuma
Edited by
Alison M. Behie ,
Julie A. Teichroeb  and
Nicholas Malone
Alison M. Behie
Affiliation:
Australian National University, Canberra
Julie A. Teichroeb
Affiliation:
University of Toronto, Scarborough
Nicholas Malone
Affiliation:
University of Auckland
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Primate Research and Conservation in the Anthropocene , pp. 74 - 98
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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