Transformation and endurance of Indigenous hunting: Kadazandusun-Murut bearded pig hunting practices amidst oil palm expansion and urbanization in Sabah, Malaysia

[摘要] 1. Land-use change and political–economic shifts have shaped hunting patterns globally, even as traditional hunting practices endure across many local socio-culturalcontexts. The widespread expansion of oil palm cultivation, and associated urbanization, alters land-use patterns, ecological processes, economic relationships,access to land and social practices.2. In particular, we focus on the socio-ecological dynamics between KadazandusunMurut (KDM) hunters in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, and bearded pigs (Sus barbatus; Malay: ‘babi hutan’), the favoured game animal for non-Muslim communitiesthroughout much of Borneo. We conducted 38 semi-structured interviews spanning over 50 hr with bearded pig hunters, asking them about contemporary huntingpractices and motivations, changes in hunting practices, changes in pig behaviour,and patterns of animal protein consumption in village and urban contexts.3. Amidst widespread land-use change, primarily driven by oil palm expansion, respondents reported substantially different characteristics of hunting in oil palmplantations as compared to hunting in forests. Additionally, 17 of 38 hunters—including 71% (10/14) of hunters who started hunting before 1985, comparedto 26% (6/23) of hunters who started hunting in 1985 or later—mentioned thatbearded pigs are behaving in a more skittish or fearful way as compared to thepast. Our respondents also reported reductions in hunting frequency and wildmeat consumption in urban contexts as compared to rural contexts.4. However, despite these substantial changes in hunting and dietary practices, numerous KDM hunting motivations, hunting techniques and socio-cultural traditions have endured over the last several decades. For some, bearded pig meatremains deeply tied to food provision, gifting and sharing customs, and culturalcomponents of celebrations and feasts.

[学科分类] 护理学

[关键词] African Swine Fever;Borneo;coupled human and natural systems;environmental governance;land-use change;socio-ecological systems;Southeast Asia;wildlife management