Sport hunting associated with favourable conservation status of mammals - Nature Sustainability While controversial, the practice of sport hunting has been argued to incentivize the conservation of various animal species. This study provides evidence that can facilitate further discussion for mu...

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Well said Kevin

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It's a good busy for sure but I'm only now about to stop for some lunch.

Busy busy only just getting my third cuppa of the day.

Louise Hulland on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire - Climate Watch - BBC Sounds Louise speaks to Aled Jones, Director of the Global Sustainability Institute at ARU.

On the Afternoon Show, we've started a new item on the Climate Crisis. The ARU Global Sustainability Institute will be with us twice a month answering your questions

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A chapter, hot off the press, by Ian Carter and myself on species reintroductions in a new book on #rewilding www.whittlespublishing.com/Great_Miscon... is part product of many interesting discussions on social media, hopefully they will continue here, extracts below 🌍 #ornithology #UKBirding

Front cover of the ‘multifunctional landscapes’ report by the Royal Society, Jan 2023

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underutilised: perhaps as incorporates values and requires facilitation skills gaining access to relevant interested parties/stakeholders (see pic alt)

environmental #socialscience 🧪

High commissioners from Zambia, Namibia, Tanzania, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Botswana this week requested a meeting with DEFRA in objection to the proposed trophy import ban.

@charliebingham.bsky.social our local BBC radio is looking for a local amateur bird watcher to interview this morning. You interested?

I saw this earlier. It's not news to most of us I'm sure but it never hurts to reinforce the fact that our "usual" world view is very wrong! I don't know the source so apologies for reusing without credit

Surely if the demand for photo tourism was as high as campaigns like Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting claim then spend at NP's like Kafue would have significantly higher.

Will increased competition caused by hunting bans reduce Kafue's share of the tourism spending pot?

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But despite all that potential Kafue NP only draws annual visitor numbers that are less than 21% of the daily visitors to the Cheltenham Festival and funded on just 18% of the daily spend at the festival.

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Kafue holds the potential to be transformed into a globally significant wildlife sanctuary for key species like elephants, wild dog, cheetah and lions, and already hosts 21 antelope species, the highest diversity found anywhere on the continent.

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Kafue’s diverse wildlife consists of 158 mammal species, 515 bird species, 70 reptile species, 58 species of fish and 36 amphibious species.

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Average spend at Cheltenham was £584 in 2015 rising to £697 in 2022.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

These figures give us a maximum annual income at Kafue NP of £6.26m in 2015.

Compared with a daily income at Cheltenham using the 2015 average spend figure of £35.04m

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Average spend in Kafue is difficult to find but there is a scale of total spend in 2015 on page 144 in the link on the second tweet of this thread.

That total spend works out at an individual spend between £109 and £499 per visitor.

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By comparison this week there's an estimate of 60,000 people visiting the Cheltenham festival every day, this figure doesn't appear to have changed much over the last few festivals & is the lowest available figure.
racingpost.com/news/festivals…

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Kafue NP saw a total of 12550 visits by individuals in 2015, according to the latest publicly available figures.
scholar.sun.ac.za/bitstream/hand…

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When considering #trophyhunting bans should we not consider the viability of the alternatives before we impose an import ban?

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Kafue National Park in Zambia covers an area of 22,400km2 for comparison Wales 20,742km2.

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