Additional studies concerning these hunting activities will be useful to contribute to proposals for management plans regulating hunting in the region – with the objective of attaining sustainable use of faunal resources of great importance to the local human communities. The use of firearm and dogs brought greater efficiency to hunting activities.
From a conservation perspective, active hunting techniques (waiting, imitation, hunting with dogs, and "facheado") have the greatest impact on the local fauna. The choice of which technique to use depends on the habits of the species being hunted, indicating that the hunters possess a wide knowledge of the biology of these animals. The types of traps used by the interviewees were: dead-fall traps ("quixó"), iron-jaw snap traps ("arataca"), wooden cages with bait ("arapuca"), iron-cage traps ("gaiola'), "visgo", multi-compartment bird cages ("alçapão"), buried ground traps with pivoted tops ("fojo"), and nooses and cages for carnivorous. Additionally, many animal species are captured using mechanical traps. The principal hunting techniques encountered were: waiting, especially directed towards hunting diurnal birds calling ("arremedo"), a technique in which the hunters imitate the animal's call to attract it to close range hunting with dogs, a technique mostly used for capturing mammals tracking, a technique used by only a few hunters who can recognize and follow animal tracks and "facheado", in which the hunters go out at night with lanterns to catch birds in their nests.
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In order to gain access to these resources, hunters have developed a series of techniques and strategies that are described in the present work. Hunting for wild animals is stimulated by the many different human uses of faunal resources, and these animals constitute important subsistence items in local communities in the Caatinga region.
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