The potential impacts of changes in bear hunting policy for hunting organisations in Croatia

• Published in: European Journal of Wildlife Research
• Main Authors: Knott, Emma J, Bunnefeld, Nils, Huber, Djuro, Reljic, Slaven, Kerezi, Vesna, Milner-Gulland, Eleanor J
• Other Authors: Imperial College London, Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Zagreb, orcid:0000-0002-1349-4463
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2014
• Subjects: Brown bear; Ursus arctos; Trophy hunting; Cost–benefit analysis; Population modelling; Pillar
• Online Access: 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

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...