The pleasure of pursuit: recreational hunters in rural Southwest China exhibit low exit rates in response to declining catch
The pleasure of pursuit: recreational hunters in rural Southwest China exhibit low exit rates in response to declining catch
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DOI：
10.5751/es-09072-220143
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发表时间：
2017-01-01
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Wilcove, David S.
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作者：
Chang, Charlotte H.;Barnes, Michele L.;Wilcove, David S.
狩猎是对热带脊椎动物最大的威胁之一。研究人们狩猎的原因对于确定防止过度狩猎的政策杠杆至关重要。过度狩猎在东南亚尤其重要，那里有很高比例的哺乳动物和鸟类受到全球威胁。我们采访了中国西南部的猎人，以研究他们的社会行为，动机和对野生动物数量变化的反应。受访者认为狩猎是一种娱乐形式，而不是一种经济生计，并报告说，他们不会停止狩猎，以应对预期渔获量的显着下降。即使在预期捕获量仅限于少量小型低价鸣禽的情况下，高达36.7%的受访者表示他们仍将继续狩猎。休闲狩猎可能是一个突出的驱动力，继续狩猎在日益去动物区系的景观，狩猎的动机及其对狩猎的生态后果的影响已经研究不足，相对于生存和利润狩猎。中国西南地区对大型猎物的偏好、不愿放弃狩猎以及执法不力可能导致网上狩猎的结果。
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 birds are globally threatened. We interviewed hunters in Southwest China to examine their social behavior, motivations, and responses to changes in wildlife abundance. Respondents viewed hunting as a form of recreation, not as an economic livelihood, and reported that they would not stop hunting in response to marked declines in expected catch. Even in scenarios where the expected catch was limited to minimal quantities of small, low-price songbirds, up to 36.7% of respondents said they would still continue to hunt. Recreational hunting may be a prominent driver for continued hunting in increasingly defaunated landscapes; this motivation for hunting and its implications for the ecological consequences of hunting have been understudied relative to subsistence and profit hunting. The combination of a preference for larger over smaller game, reluctance to quit hunting, and weak enforcement of laws may lead to hunting-down-the-web outcomes in Southwest China.