Analysis of differences and commonalities in wildlife hunting across the Africa-Europe South-North gradient.

ABSTRACT: Hunting and its impacts on wildlife are typically studied regionally, with a particular focus on the Global South. Hunting can, however, also undermine rewilding efforts or threaten wildlife in the Global North. Little is known about how hunting manifests under varying socioeconomic and ecological contexts across the Global South and North. Herein, we examined differences and commonalities in hunting characteristics across an exemplary Global South-North gradient approximated by the Human Development Index (HDI) using face-to-face interviews with 114 protected area (PA) managers in 25 African and European countries. Generally, we observed that hunting ranges from the illegal, economically motivated, and unsustainable hunting of herbivores in the South to the legal, socially and ecologicall

SUBMITTER: Bachmann ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9426919 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature