Factors promoting hunting groups’ sustainable harvest of moose in a co-management system
Collaboration between and within management levels and involvement of local communities (co-management) increases sustainable management of natural resources. In Finland, moose (Alces alces) are harvested by hunting groups within a co-management system, providing meat and social benefits. We compute...
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ftluke:oai:jukuri.luke.fi:10024/554216 2024-02-11T09:54:59+01:00 Factors promoting hunting groups’ sustainable harvest of moose in a co-management system Tuominen, Laura S. Wikström, Mikael Helanterä, Heikki Karell, Patrik Pusenius, Jyrki Rapeli, Lauri Ruha, Leena Vuorisalo, Timo Brommer, Jon E. orcid:0000-0003-0450-7530 4100110810 Luonnonvarakeskus 10 p. true https://jukuri.luke.fi/handle/10024/554216 en eng Springer Science and Business Media LLC Scientific Reports 10.1038/s41598-023-48348-2 2045-2322 1 13 21076 https://jukuri.luke.fi/handle/10024/554216 URN:NBN:fi-fe20231218155198 CC BY 4.0 publication fi=A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä|sv=A1 Originalartikel i en vetenskaplig tidskrift|en=A1 Journal article (refereed), original research| fi=Publisher's version|sv=Publisher's version|en=Publisher's version| ftluke 2024-01-25T00:07:27Z Collaboration between and within management levels and involvement of local communities (co-management) increases sustainable management of natural resources. In Finland, moose (Alces alces) are harvested by hunting groups within a co-management system, providing meat and social benefits. We computed the 14-year change in moose harvest (2007–2020) for 4320 hunting groups. Moose harvest declined on average 1.1% per year, but with substantial variation in moose harvest changes between the hunting groups. We extracted information describing the collaboration between the hunting groups, their democratic status as well as leader dynamics, and the year of establishment. A hunting group’s moose harvest was more stable (i.e. declined less) when the hunting group was (1) established a longer time ago; (2), had more changes in leadership over time, but did not depend on collaboration with other local hunting groups (in terms of jointly holding moose hunting licenses), whether the hunting group was a registered society (presumed to be more democratic than a non-registered one) or had consecutive leaders that shared a surname (presumed to be related). We conclude that encouraging resource users’ early establishment in groups and groups’ long-term persistence and promoting democratic leadership roles improves stable benefits from a natural resource in a co-management system. 2023 Article in Journal/Newspaper Alces alces Natural Resources Institute Finland: Jukuri |
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Collaboration between and within management levels and involvement of local communities (co-management) increases sustainable management of natural resources. In Finland, moose (Alces alces) are harvested by hunting groups within a co-management system, providing meat and social benefits. We computed the 14-year change in moose harvest (2007–2020) for 4320 hunting groups. Moose harvest declined on average 1.1% per year, but with substantial variation in moose harvest changes between the hunting groups. We extracted information describing the collaboration between the hunting groups, their democratic status as well as leader dynamics, and the year of establishment. A hunting group’s moose harvest was more stable (i.e. declined less) when the hunting group was (1) established a longer time ago; (2), had more changes in leadership over time, but did not depend on collaboration with other local hunting groups (in terms of jointly holding moose hunting licenses), whether the hunting group was a registered society (presumed to be more democratic than a non-registered one) or had consecutive leaders that shared a surname (presumed to be related). We conclude that encouraging resource users’ early establishment in groups and groups’ long-term persistence and promoting democratic leadership roles improves stable benefits from a natural resource in a co-management system. 2023 |
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Tuominen, Laura S. Wikström, Mikael Helanterä, Heikki Karell, Patrik Pusenius, Jyrki Rapeli, Lauri Ruha, Leena Vuorisalo, Timo Brommer, Jon E. |
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Tuominen, Laura S. Wikström, Mikael Helanterä, Heikki Karell, Patrik Pusenius, Jyrki Rapeli, Lauri Ruha, Leena Vuorisalo, Timo Brommer, Jon E. Factors promoting hunting groups’ sustainable harvest of moose in a co-management system |
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Tuominen, Laura S. Wikström, Mikael Helanterä, Heikki Karell, Patrik Pusenius, Jyrki Rapeli, Lauri Ruha, Leena Vuorisalo, Timo Brommer, Jon E. |
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Factors promoting hunting groups’ sustainable harvest of moose in a co-management system |
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Factors promoting hunting groups’ sustainable harvest of moose in a co-management system |
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Factors promoting hunting groups’ sustainable harvest of moose in a co-management system |
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factors promoting hunting groups’ sustainable harvest of moose in a co-management system |
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Scientific Reports 10.1038/s41598-023-48348-2 2045-2322 1 13 21076 https://jukuri.luke.fi/handle/10024/554216 URN:NBN:fi-fe20231218155198 |
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