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Place of Hunting Tourism in the Structure of Modern Tourism Types

Scientific Papers Animal Science and Biotechnologies, 2023
From an economic and social point of view, hunting tourism has two sub-categories: resident hunting and tourism hunting (for the travellers who travel long distances to participate in hunting).
Ioan Petroman, Cornelia Petroman, Diana Marin   +2 more
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Community-based population recovery of overexploited Amazonian wildlife

Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, 2017
The Amazon Basin experienced a pervasive process of resource overexploitation during the 20th-century, which induced severe population declines of many iconic vertebrate species.
João Vitor Campos-Silva, Carlos A. Peres, André P. Antunes, João Valsecchi, Juarez Pezzuti   +4 more
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Human subsistence and signatures of selection on chemosensory genes

Communications Biology, 2023
Chemosensation (olfaction, taste) is essential for detecting and assessing foods, such that dietary shifts elicit evolutionary changes in vertebrate chemosensory genes.
Carrie C. Veilleux, Eva C. Garrett, Petar Pajic, Marie Saitou, Joseph Ochieng, Lilia D. Dagsaan, Nathaniel J. Dominy, George H. Perry, Omer Gokcumen, Amanda D. Melin   +9 more
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Hunting strategies, wild meat preferences and perceptions of wildlife conservation in Nagaland, India

Oryx
Wild meat hunting is one of the primary threats to biodiversity, and it is important to understand the drivers of hunting by communities residing within biodiverse areas, the methods they employ and their preferences for particular wild meat types.
Satem Longchar, Manjari Roy, Qamar Qureshi, Matt W. Hayward   +3 more
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The meaning of projectile points in the Late Neolithic of the Northern Levant

Documenta Praehistorica, 2019
Our contribution explores the possibilities of inferring the functions of Late Neolithic projectile points from the settlement of Shir, Syria. Use-wear and metrical values are applied to differentiate between arrowheads, darts and thrusting spears ...
Laura Dietrich, Dörte Rokitta-Krumnow, Oliver Dietrich   +2 more
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Ethnobiology Study: Game in Dayak Lun Dayeh Community at Watershed of Mentarang in Malinau

Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika, 2023
Dayak Lun Dayeh is one of local community who lives in East Kalimantan, where they’ve mostly practiced hunting traditionally, has particular ways to find hunting spot and use hunting techniques sustainably.
Medi Hendra, Dijan Sunar Rukmi, Surianto Effendi, Freminci, Auliana   +4 more
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Subsistence hunting of Cuniculus pacain the middle of the Solimões River, Amazonas, Brazil [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2014
Ungulates, large primates and caviomorfs are cited by Amazonian hunters as preferred species. In this research, paca (Cuniculus paca) hunting was investigated in relation to water levels and the lunar cycle. In eight years of monitoring in the Amanã Sustainable Development Reserve, the killing of 625 pacas was registered in five monitored communities ...
Valsecchi, J, El Bizri, HR, Figueira, JEC   +2 more
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The pleasure of pursuit: recreational hunters in rural Southwest China exhibit low exit rates in response to declining catch

Ecology and Society, 2017
Hunting is one of the greatest threats to tropical vertebrates. Examining why people hunt is crucial to identifying policy levers to prevent excessive hunting. Overhunting is particularly relevant in Southeast Asia, where a high proportion of mammals and
Charlotte H. Chang, Michele L. Barnes, Margaret Frye, Mingxia Zhang, Rui-Chang Quan, Leah M.G. Reisman, Simon A. Levin, David S. Wilcove   +7 more
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Influence of Hunter Adaptability on Resilience of Subsistence Hunting Systems

Journal of Ecological Anthropology, 2007
Abstract The capacity of hunters to shape the fundamental properties of their lifestyle at times when extrinsic factors change the availability of subsistence foods is critical to subsistence cultures. Recent changes in deer hunting on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska illustrate the social-ecological challenges to the resilience of a rural subsistence ...
Todd Brinkman, Gary Kofinas, F. Chapin, David Person   +3 more
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Choice experiments on land managers' participation in environmental programs: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of estimate validity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Discrete choice experiments are increasingly being used to estimate land managers' willingness to accept participation in incentive‐based environmental programs. This is a specific application of discrete choice experiments: the estimation of willingness to accept for a private good (program participation) where respondents have to make trade ...
Anastasio J. Villanueva, Angel Perni, Jesus Barreiro‐Hurle   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source