Recreational Hunting, Conservation and Rural Livelihoods: Science and Practice [Paperback]

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.

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. Sportsmans shot, poachers pot: hunting, local people and the history of col'