Recreational hunting has long been a controversial issue. Is it a threat to biodiversity or can it be a tool for conservation, giving value to species and habitats that might otherwise be lost? Are the moral objections to hunting for pleasure well founded? Does recreational hunting support rural livelihoods in developing countries, or are these benefits exaggerated by proponents?
For the first time, this book addresses many of the issues that are fundamental to an understanding of the real role of recreational hunting in conservation and rural development. It examines the key issues, asks the difficult questions, and seeks to present the answers to guide policy. Where the answers are not available, it highlights gaps in our knowledge and lays out the research agenda for the next decade.
Table des matières
Notes on contributors.
Acknowledgements.
Preface.
Part 1 Conservation and Hunting.
1. Conservation and hunting: friends or foes? N.
Leader-Williams.
2. An overview of recreational hunting in North America, Europe
and Australia Robin Sharp and Kai Wollscheid.
3. Recreational fisheries: socio-economic importance,
conservation issues and management challenges Robert Arlinghaus and
Steven J. Cooke.
4. The ethics of recreational hunting Barney Dickson.
Part 2 Science.
5. The science of sustainable hunting E.J.Milner-Gulland, Nils
Bunnefeld and Gil Proaktor.
6. Guns, sheep and genes: when and why trophy hunting may be a
selective pressure Marco Festa-Bianchet and Ray Lee.
7. Science and the recreational hunting of lions Andrew
Loveridge, Craig Packer and Adam Dutton.
Part 3 Livelihoods.
8. Sportsman’s shot, poacher’s pot: hunting, local
people and the history of conservation William M. Adams.
9. Exploitation prevents extinction: Case study of endangered
Himalayan sheep and goats Michael R. Frisina & Sardar Naseer A.
Tareen.
10. Community benefits from safari hunting and related
activities in southern Africa Brian T.B. Jones.
Part 4 Policy and Practice.
11. Conservation values from falconry Robert E. Kenward.
12. Gamebird science, agricultural policy and biodiversity
conservation in lowland UK Nicholas J. Aebischer.
13. The re-introduction of recreational hunting in Uganda
Richard H. Lamprey and Arthur Mugisha.
14. Does recreational hunting conflict with photo-tourism?
Richard Davies, Kas Hamman and Hector Magome.
Part 5 Governance.
15. When does hunting contribute to conservation & rural
development? Bill Wall and Brian Child.
16. Recreational hunting and sustainable wildlife use in North
America Shane Patrick Mahoney.
17. The development of a recreational hunting industry and its
relationship with conservation in southern Africa Vernon R. Booth
and David H.M. Cumming.
18. The influence of corruption on the conduct of recreational
hunting N. Leader-Williams, R.D. Baldus and R.J. Smith.
Part 6 Regulation and Certification.
19. Regulation and recreational hunting Alison M. Rosser.
20. The application of certification to hunting: a case for
simplicity Brian Child and Bill Wall.
Conclusion.
21. Conservation, Livelihoods and Recreational Hunting: Issues
and Strategies William M Adams, Barney Dickson, Holly Dublin and
Jon Hutton.
Index
A propos de l’auteur
Barney Dickson has recently taken up a post with UNEP World
Conservation Monitoring Centre. Before that he was Head of
International Policy at Fauna & Flora International where he
worked on a range of international conservation policy issues,
including conservation and poverty reduction, sustainable use and
the trade in wild species.
Jon Hutton is Director of the UNEP World Conservation
Monitoring Centre based in Cambridge, UK. He is on the Steering
Committee of IUCN’s Species Survival Commission, Chair of its
Sustainable Use Specialist Group and Honorary Professor of
Sustainable Resource Use with the Durrell Institute of Conservation
and Ecology.
Bill Adams is Moran Professor of Conservation and
Development. He is based in the Department of Geography at the
University of Cambridge, where he has taught since 1984. His
research focuses on the social dimensions of conservation in Africa
and the UK. He is a Trustee of Fauna & Flora International.