A travel cost study of duck hunting in the Upper South East of South Australia
Australia ; Avifauna ; Cost-benefit analysis ; Environmental management ; Humid environment ; Hunting ; South Australia
Wetlands yield a range of values to their owners and to the wider community. One such value is that generated by duck hunting in the region. The non-monetary benefits received by duck hunters through their enjoyment of hunting in wetlands
are the primary focus of the paper. In order to estimate these values, a travel cost survey of duck hunters participating in an organised shoot was undertaken. The extent of the private recreation benefits is assessed in terms of their potential to stimulate
The hunting activities of hunters in the Western Cape Province
Cape Province ; Hunting ; Leisure ; Nature conservation ; Resource management ; South Africa
Hunting is examined as a form of recreation and wildlife resource management in the Western Cape. The nature, extent and participation in hunting were surveyed, with recommendations for future management. - (AJC)
Mines, Wines and Thorouhbreds : Towards Regional Sustainability in the Upper Hunter, Australia
Australie ; Changement climatique ; Développement régional ; Enclavement ; Espace clos ; Hunter River ; New South Wales ; Planification
Australia ; Climatic change ; Enclave ; Hunter River ; New South Wales ; Planning ; Regional development ; bounded space
Régions durables, développement régional durable. Etablissement de la soutenabilité d'une région. Introduire la Upper Hunter Region. Trois industries : charbon, vins et chevaux de race. La durabilité de cette région. La Upper Hunter : becoming
In the second half of the 19th century hunting had a preeminent role in the protection of wildlife and forests. Thus, at the beginning, nature conservation in Hungary was closely associated with hunting. This is clearly reflected by the contemporary
hunting journals, amply cited by author. By the end of the century it had been recognized that forests are not only the sources of economic benefits but are the bases for good feeling and health and, consequently, forests have to be preserved
The getting of the Nganabbarru : observations and reflections on Aboriginal buffalo hunting in northern Australia
Aborigines ; Australia ; Conflict ; Cultural studies ; Fauna ; Hunting ; Land management ; Management ; Northern Territory
The experience of buffalo hunting trips with Aboriginal men in central Arnhem Land is used as a point of departure to consider the relationships between Aboriginal people and megaherbivores, and to explore the complexity of feral animal management
Canada ; Consumption ; Cultural studies ; Ethnic community ; Fishing ; Food ; Hunting ; Northwest Territories ; Way of life
The persistence of hunting and fishing in the face of resource development is part of a deeper response that native people in northern Canada feel toward nature. - (DWG)
After the king of beasts : Samuel Baker and the embodied historical geographies of elephant hunting in mid-nineteenth-century Ceylon
Colonialism ; Ethics ; Fauna ; Historical geography ; Hunting ; Nineteenth Century ; Sri Lanka
The paper focuses on the exploits of S. Baker and some of his contemporaries. It critically engages with existing work on hunting and colonial natural history by examining interwoven human and nonhuman experiences, exploring elephant hunting
Cree hunters’ observations on resources in the landscape in the context of socio-environmental change in the Eastern James Bay
Amerindians ; Canada ; Climatic change ; Cultural studies ; Enquiry ; Ethnic community ; Hunting ; Landscape ; Living conditions ; Man-environment relations ; Quebec ; Wildlife
The article examines the understanding of Cree hunters in relation to shifts in landscape resources and in particular the availability of two key subsistence wildlife species as a result of climatic and socio-environmental changes
and their subsequent impacts on Cree subsistence activities and Cree culture. These results are based on questionnaires and interviews conducted among Cree hunters of the Eastern James Bay.