Table 1.

Equilibrium values for the simulation model with no penalties imposed for hunting. Price rises: all prices increase by a percentage over the benchmark case. (h.p.a., hours per annum.)

price rise		benchmark	benchmark	benchmark	+20%	+20%	+20%
species	carrying capacity (CC, 100 km−2)	numbers (% of CC)	fraction consumed at home	off-take	numbers (% of CC)	fraction consumed at home	off-take
grasscutter	1800	1437 (79%)	0.20	173	868 (48%)	0	275
giant rat	22800	19300 (85%)	0.68	1811	14900 (65%)	0.57	2123
bushbuck	670	448 (67%)	0	38	175 (26%)	0	34
black duiker	4300	3375 (78%)	0	56	219 (5%)	0	37
porcupine	400	280 (72%)	0.39	415	191 (47%)	0.16	421
Mona monkey	570	531 (93%)	0	220	0	0	0
civet cat	200	110 (55%)	0.27	8	0	0	0
gun hunting h p.a.	—	45	—	—	147	—	—
snaring h p.a.	—	4964	—	—	12360	—	—
welfare level	—	2723	—	—	2700	—	—
price rise	+30%	+30%	+30%	+50%	+50%	+50%
species	numbers (% of CC)	fraction consumed at home	off-take	numbers (% of CC)	fraction consumed at home	off-take
grasscutter	566 (31%)	0	172	51 (2.8%)	0	66
giant rat	10520 (46%)	0.39	3005	2750 (12%)	0.08	2651
bushbuck	110 (16%)	0	21	19 (3%)	0	8
black duiker	1953 (45%)	0	32	803 (19%)	0	17
porcupine	191 (47%)	0.09	536	109 (27%)	0	518
Mona monkey	0	0	0	0	0	0
civet cat	0	0	0	0	0	0
gun hunting h p.a.	972	—	—	12400	—	—
snaring h p.a.	11530	—	—	14	—	—
welfare level	2718	—	—	2175	—	—