Who bites the bullet first? The susceptibility of leopards Panthera pardus to trophy hunting.

ABSTRACT: Reliable data is fundamentally important for managing large carnivore populations, and vital for informing hunting quota levels if those populations are subject to trophy hunting. Camera-trapping and spoor counts can provide reliable population estimates for many carnivores, but governments typically lack the resources to implement such surveys over the spatial scales required to inform robust quota setting. It may therefore be prudent to shift focus away from estimating population size and instead focus on monitoring population trend. In this paper we assess the susceptibility of African leopards Panthera pardus to trophy hunting. This has management ramifications, particularly if the use of harvest composition is to be explored as a metric of population trend. We explore the susceptibili

SUBMITTER: Braczkowski AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4393264 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature