The importance of structural, situational, and psychological factors for involving hunters in the adaptive flyway management of geese.

ABSTRACT: Adaptive flyway management of superabundant geese is emerging as a strategy to reduce damage to agricultural crops and other ecosystem disservices, while also ensuring sustainable use and conservation objectives. Given the calls for intensified hunting as part of flyway management in Europe, we need to increase the understanding of structural, situational, and psychological factors important for goose hunting among hunters. Our survey data, retrieved in southern Sweden, showed a higher potential to intensify hunting among goose hunters than other hunters. In response to hypothetical policy instruments (including regulations, collaborative, and others), hunters declared a minor increase in their intention to hunt geese, with the greatest expected increase among goose hunters should the hunt

SUBMITTER: Eriksson L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10154402 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature