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Apr 15, 2021 · Now, scientists from Finland’s University of Helsinki and Flinders University, in Australia, have reviewed more than 1,000 studies of recreational hunting and published their findings (“Consequences of recreational hunting for biodiversity conservation and livelihoods”) in the journal One Earth. They describe their work as a first attempt to summarize the scientific literature examining ...
Understanding and recognizing the value of hunting and hunters is an important step towards sustainable human interaction with nature and preserving our planet for future generations. Hunting helps control the number of snow geese, reducing pressure on tundra ecosystems and allowing them to recover. This illustrates the benefits of hunting.
Feb 24, 2021 · Regulated hunting is one of the most effective tools that state wildlife agencies can use to address the overpopulation of a species, Peterson said. “It removes the excess number of animals.”. DePerno added that the ultimate goal of wildlife management is to monitor populations “under an adaptive resource management process while using ...
Feb 19, 2021 · Recreational hunting underpins the North American model of wildlife conservation whereby hunting is proposed as an ethical and conservation-motivated tool. 10 Since 1937, fees from waterfowl hunters 101 have made it possible to conserve or restore more than 50,000 km 2 of habitat in some of the most important areas for duck and geese ...
- Enrico Di Minin, Enrico Di Minin, Hayley S. Clements, Hayley S. Clements, Ricardo A. Correia, Ricard...
- 2021
Feb 19, 2021 · University of Helsinki colleague and co-lead author Dr. Hayley Clements says more analysis is needed to understand how and why recreational hunting can work for good, and those areas where it can ...
- Flinders University
We determined that on the one hand, recreational hunting can reduce the number of individual animals in a population, whereas on the other, diverting land from agricultural or other types of development to priority hunting areas can in fact benefit entire ecosystems. Lion (Panthera leo) was one of the most studied species in the scientific ...
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Jun 14, 2021 · Analyzing over 1,300 academic studies about recreational hunting, this paper questions its importance for conservation. Recreational hunting is the killing of an animal for one’s own entertainment rather than for survival (subsistence hunting) or sale (commercial hunting). It is often touted as a way of protecting biodiversity while bringing ...
