Animal Breeding Systems, Hunter Selectivity, and Consumptive Use in Wildlife Conservation

Abstract

Abstract Wild animal and plant populations are protected from development and agriculture in a number of ways, ranging from strict nature reserves and national parks that are managed for wilderness protection and nonconsumptive recreation, to multiple-use areas from which species or products are extracted (IUCN/UNEP/WWF, 1991). In the face of the growing human population, much of the world’s animal and plant diversity will in the future be found within protected areas, so the efficacy with which different forms of protection conserve biodiversity is now of central concern (Meffe and Carroll, 1997). In the long term, we will need to determine whether wildlife populations protected in national parks suffer less attrition than those protected in multiple-use areas and which types of multiple-use areas are best.