Extended Data Fig. 1: Heatmaps of Amazonian peoples and rural hunters.
From: Healthy forests safeguard traditional wild meat food systems in Amazonia
Amazonian peoples were defined as all inhabitants living in rural Amazonia, frequently self-declared as Indigenous, traditional or small-scale farming peoples, and were here estimated at 10,870,022 individuals (Amazonian peoples population size), corresponding to 34.2% of the 31,783,941 individuals living (total human population size) in Amazonia. We developed a raster of the total human population size within Amazonia boundaries (A) and removed all the urban areas (B) as defined in the urban-rural catchment area raster57, to obtain the Amazonian peoples population size (APPS) raster (C). To obtain the rural hunters population size (RHPS) raster (D) we multiplied the APPS raster by 0.178 (median) and by 0.168, 0.173, 0.183 and 0.187 (the 0.10, 0.25, 0.75, and 0.90 quantiles), which represent the estimated proportion of hunters to consumers based on data from 72 localities of the Marupiara Dataset with both information of number of hunters and number of consumers. Based on these calculations, the total number of rural hunters in Amazonia was estimated at 1.93 ± 0.08 (1.83–2.04) M.
