the significance of african lions for the financial viability of trophy hunting and the maintenance of wild land非洲狮子的意义的财务可行性狩猎和维护的荒野.pdfVIP

The Significance of African Lions for the Financial Viability of Trophy Hunting and the Maintenance of Wild Land 1,2 2 3 2,4 Peter Andrew Lindsey *, Guy Andrew Balme , Vernon Richard Booth , Neil Midlane 1 Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, 2 Panthera, New York, United States of America, 3 Harare, Zimbabwe, 4 Department of Zoology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Abstract Recent studies indicate that trophy hunting is impacting negatively on some lion populations, notably in Tanzania. In 2004 there was a proposal to list lions on CITES Appendix I and in 2011 animal-welfare groups petitioned the United States government to list lions as endangered under their Endangered Species Act. Such listings would likely curtail the trophy hunting of lions by limiting the import of lion trophies. Concurrent efforts are underway to encourage the European Union to ban lion trophy imports. We assessed the significance of lions to the financial viability of trophy hunting across five countries to help determine the financial impact and advisability of the proposed trade restrictions. Lion hunts attract the highest mean prices (US$24,000–US$71,000) of all trophy species. Lions generate 5–17% of gross trophy hunting income on national levels, the proportional significance highest in Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia. If lion hunting was effectively precluded, trophy hunting could potentially become financially unviable across at least 59,538 km2 that could result in a concomitant loss of habitat. However, the loss of lion hunting could have other potentially broader negative impacts including reduction of comp