Cacería deportiva: ¿Cultura, desarrollo o conservación?

Abstract

Sport hunting involves recreational shooting and killing wildlife in a manner that it is not affects its persistence. Nonetheless, when poorly regulated, sport hunting can be caused negative effects to target species and populations. In this study, we check and discuss several political-environmental, economic-social, socio-cultural, and biological-environmental areas related to sport hunting in Mexico. This paper based on several arguments and case studies showed how sport hunting does not afford an economic-social benefit in Mexico. Sport hunting is usually risky from the biological-environmental scope. Although local people harvest wildlife, it did not have anything to do with sport hunting. In Mexico, several political-environmental inconsistences were observed, including environmental regulation failures and lack of coordination between use and conservation of wildlife. This study highlights the importance to assess the effects of sport hunting on wildlife at local and regional level. Ethical considerations, regulation elements, or every economic, politic, social, cultural, and biological issue, are especially important in evaluations of sport hunting, polarizing debates on this topic.