The potential impacts of changes in bear hunting policy for hunting organisations in Croatia
The brown bear (Ursus arctos) in Croatia is currently being managed through trophy hunting, with quotas allocated to local hunting organisations. Human-bear conflict is present at a low level, but any losses are compensated by the hunting organisations that benefit from bear hunting. Attitudes towar...
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ftunivstirling:oai:dspace.stir.ac.uk:1893/18571 2023-05-15T18:41:59+02:00 The potential impacts of changes in bear hunting policy for hunting organisations in Croatia Knott, Emma J Bunnefeld, Nils Huber, Djuro Reljic, Slaven Kerezi, Vesna Milner-Gulland, Eleanor J Imperial College London Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Zagreb orcid:0000-0002-1349-4463 2014-02 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1893/18571 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-013-0754-3 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/18571/1/Knott%20bears.pdf en eng Springer Knott EJ, Bunnefeld N, Huber D, Reljic S, Kerezi V & Milner-Gulland EJ (2014) The potential impacts of changes in bear hunting policy for hunting organisations in Croatia. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 60 (1), pp. 85-97. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-013-0754-3 http://hdl.handle.net/1893/18571 doi:10.1007/s10344-013-0754-3 WOS:000330589700009 2-s2.0-84880401065 684179 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/18571/1/Knott%20bears.pdf This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ 2014-02-28 CC-BY Brown bear Ursus arctos Trophy hunting Cost–benefit analysis Population modelling Journal Article VoR - Version of Record 2014 ftunivstirling https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-013-0754-3 2022-06-13T18:43:58Z The brown bear (Ursus arctos) in Croatia is currently being managed through trophy hunting, with quotas allocated to local hunting organisations. Human-bear conflict is present at a low level, but any losses are compensated by the hunting organisations that benefit from bear hunting. Attitudes towards bears are generally positive, and the bear population appears stable, or even increasing. Croatia's current bear hunting policy relies upon both the ecological sustainability of the quotas and the economic sustainability of the hunting organisations. To address the first of these pillars of current policy, we used a two-sex matrix model of the bear population to investigate the biological sustainability of current hunting levels. The model suggests that if the annual allocated quota were fully realised, the population would suffer a considerable decrease over 10 years. A likely explanation for the mismatch between this result and the observed stability of the population is that the bear population size is underestimated. To address the second pillar, we quantified the current structure, costs and benefits of bear hunting to hunting organisations through an interview survey with hunting managers. We found that bear hunting is a substantial component of hunting organisations' income, supporting the other activities of the organisation. Croatia's recent accession to the EU will require changes in their bear management system, potentially stopping bear trophy hunting. Therefore, we assessed the changes in hunting organisations' budgets in the absence of bear hunting. Our results demonstrate that a loss of bear trophy hunting would result in a substantial loss of income to the hunting organisations. Moving bear hunting and compensation mechanisms from local management and responsibility to a more centralised system without trophy hunting, as suggested by EU legislation, will lead to considerable uncertainties. These include how to make centralised decisions on population targets and offtake levels for population ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Ursus arctos University of Stirling: Stirling Digital Research Repository Pillar ENVELOPE(166.217,166.217,-77.583,-77.583) European Journal of Wildlife Research 60 1 85 97 |
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The brown bear (Ursus arctos) in Croatia is currently being managed through trophy hunting, with quotas allocated to local hunting organisations. Human-bear conflict is present at a low level, but any losses are compensated by the hunting organisations that benefit from bear hunting. Attitudes towards bears are generally positive, and the bear population appears stable, or even increasing. Croatia's current bear hunting policy relies upon both the ecological sustainability of the quotas and the economic sustainability of the hunting organisations. To address the first of these pillars of current policy, we used a two-sex matrix model of the bear population to investigate the biological sustainability of current hunting levels. The model suggests that if the annual allocated quota were fully realised, the population would suffer a considerable decrease over 10 years. A likely explanation for the mismatch between this result and the observed stability of the population is that the bear population size is underestimated. To address the second pillar, we quantified the current structure, costs and benefits of bear hunting to hunting organisations through an interview survey with hunting managers. We found that bear hunting is a substantial component of hunting organisations' income, supporting the other activities of the organisation. Croatia's recent accession to the EU will require changes in their bear management system, potentially stopping bear trophy hunting. Therefore, we assessed the changes in hunting organisations' budgets in the absence of bear hunting. Our results demonstrate that a loss of bear trophy hunting would result in a substantial loss of income to the hunting organisations. Moving bear hunting and compensation mechanisms from local management and responsibility to a more centralised system without trophy hunting, as suggested by EU legislation, will lead to considerable uncertainties. These include how to make centralised decisions on population targets and offtake levels for population ... |
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The potential impacts of changes in bear hunting policy for hunting organisations in Croatia |
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The potential impacts of changes in bear hunting policy for hunting organisations in Croatia |
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The potential impacts of changes in bear hunting policy for hunting organisations in Croatia |
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The potential impacts of changes in bear hunting policy for hunting organisations in Croatia |
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The potential impacts of changes in bear hunting policy for hunting organisations in Croatia |
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Knott EJ, Bunnefeld N, Huber D, Reljic S, Kerezi V & Milner-Gulland EJ (2014) The potential impacts of changes in bear hunting policy for hunting organisations in Croatia. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 60 (1), pp. 85-97. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-013-0754-3 http://hdl.handle.net/1893/18571 doi:10.1007/s10344-013-0754-3 WOS:000330589700009 2-s2.0-84880401065 684179 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/18571/1/Knott%20bears.pdf |
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