The Environmental History of Livestock Husbandry in the Tropics

现代社会往往提倡对野生动植物和荒野生物多样性的保护，却忽视了本土家畜的多样性。一些本地家畜面临灭绝。来自旱地的农场动物的文化和生物多样性得到了充分的记录，但对来自潮湿环境的家畜的关注很少；例如，季风亚洲。出于这个原因，我们选择研究人类与牲畜的相互作用，比如在孟加拉国、泰国或肯尼亚的孟加拉三角洲养猪，以及在印度、老挝或埃塞俄比亚养牛。该地区养猪利用三角洲的自然资源和当地品种的猪在一个游牧牧区的农业系统。研究结果说明了复杂环境下农场动物的可持续利用和管理，增加了我们对本土家畜的认识，促进了对本土家畜的保护。

Modern society often promotes the protection of wild animals and plants and wilderness biodiversity, but neglects the diversity of indigenous domestic animals. Some localized domestic animals are faced with extinction. The cultural and biological diversity of farm animals from dry lands is well documented, but little attention has been paid to domestic animals from wet environments; for example, Monsoon Asia. For this reason, we chose to study human-livestock interaction like pig farming in the Bengal delta of Bangladesh or Thailand or Kenya, and cattle farming in India or Laos or Ethiopia. Pig farming in this area uses the natural resources of the delta and local breeds of pigs in a nomadic pastoral farming system. The results of our study illustrate the sustainable use and management of farm animals in a complex environment, and increase our understanding indigenous domestic animals and promote the conservation.