Sustainable trophy hunting of Iberian ibex
Selective hunting practices, such as trophy hunting, remove individuals with specific phenotypes (Kuparinen & Festa-Bianchet 2017). For mountain ungulates, trophy hunting involves the selective harvest of males with large horns. Trophy hunters usually pay a substantial fee, which in some cases i...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:310128 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/310128 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.7325/Galemys.2018.F1 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Trophy hunting Iberian ibex Capra pyrenaica Horns Mountain ungulates Size-selective harvesting |
| Sumario: | Selective hunting practices, such as trophy hunting, remove individuals with specific phenotypes (Kuparinen & Festa-Bianchet 2017). For mountain ungulates, trophy hunting involves the selective harvest of males with large horns. Trophy hunters usually pay a substantial fee, which in some cases is proportional to the 'trophy score' of the animal they harvest. Trophy hunting can generate important revenues for the conservation of ungulate populations (Leader-Williams 2009). For example, a conservation program based on limited trophy hunting succeeded in increasing the population of the endangered markhor (Capra falconeri) from 200 to 3,500 in Pakistan (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2014). If poorly regulated, however, this activity can adversely affects the population dynamics, genetic diversity and evolution of the target species (Mysterud 2014). |
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