Sentences with phrase «subsistence hunting»

Conservationists can be «cautiously optimistic» about the prospect of sustainable subsistence hunting by Amazonian communities.

Lead author Dr Mark Abrahams, from UEA's School of Environmental Sciences, said: «Understanding the impacts of subsistence hunting in tropical forests is crucial not only to safeguard the world's most biodiverse terrestrial ecosystems, but also to secure a sustainable future for forest - dependent communities.»

Dr Abrahams said: «Our results imply that conservationists can be cautiously optimistic about the prospect of sustainable subsistence hunting by Amazonian communities.

The Beaufort Sea Planning Area is complex, with significant overlap between areas that may offer significant hydrocarbon resource potential and other uses, including subsistence hunting and fishing.

Evaluate possibility of local subsistence hunting of selected small game species in villages zones for local communities, with absolutely no export, and strictly only where demonstrated sustainable

SLAs are used to calculate safe limits for subsistence hunts.

By using church - led education initiatives, colonial governments sought to reduce Indigenous people's dependence on subsistence hunting and gathering.

- Subsistence hunting did not empty the forest of game vertebrates in the study regions, which retain high forest cover, sources of alternative protein and low human population densities.

It is unclear what effect subsistence hunting might be having on the Taimyr population.

The department has a decades - long relationship with Eskimo whaling captains authorized by the International Whaling Commission to conduct subsistence hunts twice annually.

She describes how subsistence hunting remains a core activity: «We are here to stay.»

* loss of subsistence hunting opportunities potentially fatal interactions between humans and polar bears and brown bears

The Chukchi Sea is also part of the seasonal migration route for Bowhead whales that supports subsistence hunting by local indigenous communities.

Now, a team of researchers is arguing that the government's response — of placing limits on indigenous subsistence hunting — is misguided.

The reforms to its existing Wildlife Conservation Law would still permit subsistence hunting, hunting of animals for scientific research, and sport fishing.

Conservationists can be «cautiously optimistic» about the prospect of sustainable subsistence hunting by Amazonian communities — according to new research from the University of East Anglia.

The company has also agreed to start a bowhead - whale - monitoring programme from 1 August, and to suspend drilling in the Beaufort from 25 August until after locals have finished their subsistence hunts.

The proposed designation would not, however, stop the subsistence hunt of the seals by Alaska natives.

Subsistence hunting is a value to be protected and will continue under the administration of the area added to Katmai National Monument.»

Through this ongoing project, Miner engenders many complex questions about sport versus subsistence hunting, Indigenous sovereignties, systems of surveillance, and settler - colonial policing.

In WAAWAASHKESHIWI - WIIYAAS Miner reclaims this story along with his gichi - aanikoobijigan's right to subsistence hunting.

Since 1998, Earthjustice has gone to court three times to protect this region from oil and gas leasing and its harmful effects on sensitive areas, including calving and insect - relief habitats for caribou, molting and nesting areas for various birds, and subsistence hunting and fishing grounds for local people.

Threats include a growing human population and subsistence hunting.

«Although polar bear hides taken in the subsistence hunt have commercial value, revenues from nonresident trophy hunting provide a much greater economic return to the Inuit.

Over the past three years, the Nunavut Hunters Support Program has invested $ 6 million in improvements to subsistence hunting.