Sustainable hunting plan as a tool of wildlife management: the Italian case
Lucrezia Forti, CREA - Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Trento (IT)
Hunting can be an interesting tool to manage wildlife to avoid potential conflicts with other ecosystem services. When wildlife grows too much, natural ecosystems functionality can be threat by ungulates' browsing and grubbing. Conversely, when species conservation is in dangerous, the hunting itself needs to be limited. Conflicts could be managed by sustainable hunting plans. The aim of the study is to analyses hunting in Italy to develop local sustainable hunting plans. The results show the main hunting species are wild boar in Central Italy and red and roe deer in North Italy.