The Exploitation of Mammal Populations edited by V.J. Taylor, N. Dunstone.

Human exploitation of other mammals has passed through three histori­ cal phases, distinct in their ecological significance though overlapping in time. Initially, Homo sapiens was a predator, particularly of herbivores but also of fur-bearing predators. From about 11 000 years ago, goats and sheep w...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Taylor, V.J (Editor), Dunstone, N. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1996.
Edition:1st ed. 1996.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • One Exploitation of Mammal Populations: Past, Present and Future
  • 1 The exploitation, sustainable use and welfare of wild mammals
  • 2 Historical dichotomies in the exploitation of mammals
  • 3 The wild fur trade: historical and ecological perspectives
  • 4 Assessing the impacts of uses of mammals: the good, the bad and the neutral
  • Two Harvesting Wild Mammal Populations
  • 5 Game ranching
  • 6 Status and exploitation of the saiga antelope in Kalmykia
  • 7 Capybara use and conservation in South America
  • 8 Sustainable use of whales: whaling or whale watching?
  • Three Hunting and Its Impact on Wildlife
  • 9 The impact of game meat hunting on target and non-target species in the Serengeti
  • 10 Subsistence hunting and mammal conservation in a Kenyan coastal forest: resolving a conflict
  • 11 The impact of sport hunting: a case study
  • 12 Studies of English red deer populations subject to hunting-to-hounds
  • Four Wildlife Trade and Conservation
  • 13 Zimbabwe: a model for the sustainable use of wildlife and the development of innovative wildlife management practices
  • 14 Sustainable utilization: the lessons of history
  • 15 Wildlife trade — a conserver or exploiter?
  • 16 The tiger — road to extinction
  • 17 The exploitation of Asian elephants
  • Five Ecotourism: Making Mammal Populations Pay
  • 18 The impact of ecotourism development on rainforest mammals
  • 19 Ecotourism and mountain gorillas in the Virunga Volcanoes
  • 20 Use, misuse and abuse of the orang utan — exploitation as a threat or the only real salvation?
  • 21 Elephant family values
  • 22 Human disturbance of cetaceans.