Sustainable trophy hunting of Iberian ibex
Carvalho, João (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Servei d'Ecopatologia de Fauna Salvatge)
Fandos, Paulino (Agencia de Medio Ambiente y Agua de Andalucía)
Festa-Bianchet, Marco (Université de Sherbrooke. Département de Biologie)
Büntgen, Ulf (University of Cambridge. Department of Geography)
Fonseca, Carlos (University of Aveiro. Department of Biology)
Serrano Ferron, Emmanuel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Medicina i Cirurgia Animals)

Additional title:	Por una caza sostenible del trofeo de macho montés
Date:	2018
Abstract:	Selective hunting practices, such as trophy hunting, remove individuals with specific phenotypes (Kuparinen & Festa-Bianchet 2017). For mountain ungulates, trophy hunting involves the selective harvest of males with large horns. Trophy hunters usually pay a substantial fee, which in some cases is proportional to the 'trophy score' of the animal they harvest. Trophy hunting can generate important revenues for the conservation of ungulate populations (Leader-Williams 2009). For example, a conservation program based on limited trophy hunting succeeded in increasing the population of the endangered markhor (Capra falconeri) from 200 to 3,500 in Pakistan (U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2014). If poorly regulated, however, this activity can adversely affects the population dynamics, genetic diversity and evolution of the target species (Mysterud 2014).
Grants:	Agencia Estatal de Investigación RYC-2016-21120
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Trophy hunting ; Iberian ibex ; Capra pyrenaica ; Horns ; Mountain ungulates ; Size-selective harvesting
Published in:	Galemys, Spanish Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 30 (2018) , p. 1-4, ISSN 2254-8408

DOI: 10.7325/Galemys.2018.F1

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