TY - JOUR
T1 - Trophy hunting
T2 - Bans create opening for change
AU - Nowak, Katarzyna
AU - Lee, Phyllis C.
AU - Marino, Jorgelina
AU - Mkono, Mucha
AU - Mumby, Hannah
AU - Dobson, Andrew
AU - Harvey, Ross
AU - Lindsay, Keith
AU - Lusseau, David
AU - Sillero-Zubiri, Claudio
PY - 2019/10/25
Y1 - 2019/10/25
N2 - In their Letter “Trophy hunting bans imperil biodiversity” (30 August, p.874), A. Dickman et al. warn that banning trophy hunting, a practice many of them deem “repugnant,” could threaten African biodiversity and livelihoods. What they actually describe is how loss of funding may impart these effects, without specifying any unique benefits of trophy hunting. It is defeatist to defend business-as-usual instead of promoting alternative conservation activities that could sustain formerly trophy-hunted species and areas.
AB - In their Letter “Trophy hunting bans imperil biodiversity” (30 August, p.874), A. Dickman et al. warn that banning trophy hunting, a practice many of them deem “repugnant,” could threaten African biodiversity and livelihoods. What they actually describe is how loss of funding may impart these effects, without specifying any unique benefits of trophy hunting. It is defeatist to defend business-as-usual instead of promoting alternative conservation activities that could sustain formerly trophy-hunted species and areas.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074083724&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1126/science.aaz4135
DO - 10.1126/science.aaz4135
M3 - Letter
C2 - 31649191
AN - SCOPUS:85074083724
SN - 0036-8075
VL - 366
SP - 434
EP - 435
JO - Science
JF - Science
IS - 6464
ER -