Factors promoting hunting groups’ sustainable harvest of moose in a co-management system

Collaboration between and within management levels and involvement of local communities (co-management) increases sustainable management of natural resources. In Finland, moose (Alces alces) are harvested by hunting groups within a co-management system, providing meat and social benefits. We compute...

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Autores principales: Tuominen, Laura S., Wikström, Mikael, Helanterä, Heikki, Karell, Patrik, Pusenius, Jyrki, Rapeli, Lauri, Ruha, Leena, Vuorisalo, Timo, Brommer, Jon E.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10687258/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38030666
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48348-2
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author Tuominen, Laura S.
Wikström, Mikael
Helanterä, Heikki
Karell, Patrik
Pusenius, Jyrki
Rapeli, Lauri
Ruha, Leena
Vuorisalo, Timo
Brommer, Jon E.
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Wikström, Mikael
Helanterä, Heikki
Karell, Patrik
Pusenius, Jyrki
Rapeli, Lauri
Ruha, Leena
Vuorisalo, Timo
Brommer, Jon E.
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description Collaboration between and within management levels and involvement of local communities (co-management) increases sustainable management of natural resources. In Finland, moose (Alces alces) are harvested by hunting groups within a co-management system, providing meat and social benefits. We computed the 14-year change in moose harvest (2007–2020) for 4320 hunting groups. Moose harvest declined on average 1.1% per year, but with substantial variation in moose harvest changes between the hunting groups. We extracted information describing the collaboration between the hunting groups, their democratic status as well as leader dynamics, and the year of establishment. A hunting group’s moose harvest was more stable (i.e. declined less) when the hunting group was (1) established a longer time ago; (2), had more changes in leadership over time, but did not depend on collaboration with other local hunting groups (in terms of jointly holding moose hunting licenses), whether the hunting group was a registered society (presumed to be more democratic than a non-registered one) or had consecutive leaders that shared a surname (presumed to be related). We conclude that encouraging resource users’ early establishment in groups and groups’ long-term persistence and promoting democratic leadership roles improves stable benefits from a natural resource in a co-management system.
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spelling pubmed-106872582023-11-30 Factors promoting hunting groups’ sustainable harvest of moose in a co-management system Tuominen, Laura S. Wikström, Mikael Helanterä, Heikki Karell, Patrik Pusenius, Jyrki Rapeli, Lauri Ruha, Leena Vuorisalo, Timo Brommer, Jon E. Sci Rep Article Collaboration between and within management levels and involvement of local communities (co-management) increases sustainable management of natural resources. In Finland, moose (Alces alces) are harvested by hunting groups within a co-management system, providing meat and social benefits. We computed the 14-year change in moose harvest (2007–2020) for 4320 hunting groups. Moose harvest declined on average 1.1% per year, but with substantial variation in moose harvest changes between the hunting groups. We extracted information describing the collaboration between the hunting groups, their democratic status as well as leader dynamics, and the year of establishment. A hunting group’s moose harvest was more stable (i.e. declined less) when the hunting group was (1) established a longer time ago; (2), had more changes in leadership over time, but did not depend on collaboration with other local hunting groups (in terms of jointly holding moose hunting licenses), whether the hunting group was a registered society (presumed to be more democratic than a non-registered one) or had consecutive leaders that shared a surname (presumed to be related). We conclude that encouraging resource users’ early establishment in groups and groups’ long-term persistence and promoting democratic leadership roles improves stable benefits from a natural resource in a co-management system. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10687258/ /pubmed/38030666 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48348-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Vuorisalo, Timo
Brommer, Jon E.
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