TY - JOUR
KW - Captive breeding
KW - Chlamydotis undulata
KW - Game management
KW - Middle East
KW - North Africa
KW - Otididae
KW - Population reinforcement
KW - Supplementation
KW - Sustainable hunting
KW - Translocation
KW - Community development
KW - conservation management
KW - Hunting
KW - stakeholder
KW - Sustainability
KW - Sustainable development
KW - translocation
AU - Paul Dolman
AU - Keith Scotland
AU - Robert Burnside
AU - Nigel Collar
AB - African houbara (Chlamydotis undulata) and Asian houbara (C. macqueenii), classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, have been over-exploited across their global ranges. The highest-profile conservation response has been large-scale releases of captive-bred birds, potentially threatening wild populations through introgression. Options for increasing numbers of the species are habitat management to counter overgrazing (in North Africa and the Middle East), mitigation of powerline collisions, predator control (ethically questionable and impractical), reduction of poaching and trapping, limited captive breeding, and hunting controls. Assuming hunting continues, the best model for conserving both species is a system of sustainable hunting that incorporates stakeholder observance, involvement of stakeholders and local communities in decisions and monitoring, protection of no-hunting areas, scientifically-determined quotas, small-scale use of captive-bred birds, and—if numbers still fail to respond, as a last resort—moratoria. These measures provide the only realistic guarantee for the long-term survival of Arab falconry, a part of humanity s intangible cultural heritage.
DO - 10.1016/j.jnc.2021.126000
N1 - Publisher: Elsevier GmbH
N2 - African houbara (Chlamydotis undulata) and Asian houbara (C. macqueenii), classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, have been over-exploited across their global ranges. The highest-profile conservation response has been large-scale releases of captive-bred birds, potentially threatening wild populations through introgression. Options for increasing numbers of the species are habitat management to counter overgrazing (in North Africa and the Middle East), mitigation of powerline collisions, predator control (ethically questionable and impractical), reduction of poaching and trapping, limited captive breeding, and hunting controls. Assuming hunting continues, the best model for conserving both species is a system of sustainable hunting that incorporates stakeholder observance, involvement of stakeholders and local communities in decisions and monitoring, protection of no-hunting areas, scientifically-determined quotas, small-scale use of captive-bred birds, and—if numbers still fail to respond, as a last resort—moratoria. These measures provide the only realistic guarantee for the long-term survival of Arab falconry, a part of humanity s intangible cultural heritage.
TI - Sustainable hunting and the conservation of the threatened houbara bustards
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85104579049&doi=10.1016%2fj.jnc.2021.126000&partnerID=40&md5=a041f43a4a3d41008a1d9d3ca07a40bc
VL - 61
SN - 16171381 (ISSN)
ER -