Achieving sustainable hunting in African rainforests is an emerging issue from two perspectives: wildlife conservation and livelihood security for local people. In Cameroon, national parks have been established in the forests to conserve bushmeat animals, and hunting is uniformly prohibited within the national parks. However, such restrictions imposed unilaterally by conservation agencies are often incompatible with local people's lifestyles, sometimes leading to violent conflict between local people and the agencies. Given these social challenges, the ideal situation would be for local people to manage bushmeat on their own initiative. However, there are no empirical studies on the feasibility of local community-led bushmeat co-management.
    The presenter developed an analogue game in which local people compete for wildlife coins in a bag to mimic real hunting activities, and had local people play the developed game in Southeast Cameroon from September to October 2024. The hunting game has several situations based on actual wildlife conservation policies in Southeast Cameroon. With an explanation of the importance of sustainable hunting and regular monitoring of the coins, participants were able to use the animal coins sustainably.
　This study suggests that it is potentially possible for local people to act as management actors and collectively manage bushmeat animals as local commons. However, it is too early to conclude the feasibility of local community-led bushmeat management, as the game coin management developed in this study is an oversimplification of the reality of bushmeat management in the study site. The subsequent surveys will develop a more realistic, complex, yet comprehensible serious hunting game, and further discuss the feasibility of local community-led bushmeat management.