McRae, Louise;
Freeman, Robin;
Geldmann, Jonas;
Moss, Grace B;
Kjær-Hansen, Louise;
Burgess, Neil D;
(2022)
A global indicator of utilized wildlife populations: Regional trends and the impact of management.
One Earth
, 5
(4)
pp. 422-433.
10.1016/j.oneear.2022.03.014.
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Abstract
Sustainable use of wildlife is a core aspiration of biodiversity conservation but is the subject of intense debate in the scientific literature, including the extent to which use is impacting species and whether management can mitigate any impact. Although positive and negative outcomes of sustainable use are known for specific taxa or local communities, a global and regional picture of trends in wildlife populations in use is lacking. We use a global dataset of more than 11,000 time series to derive indices of “utilized” and “not utilized” wildlife populations. Our results show that population trends globally are negative on average but that utilized populations tend to decline more rapidly, especially in Africa and the Americas. Crucially, where populations are managed, they are more likely to be increasing. This evidence can inform global biodiversity assessments and provide an operational indicator to track progress toward the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A global indicator of utilized wildlife populations: Regional trends and the impact of management |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.oneear.2022.03.014 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2022.03.014 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | sustainable use, biodiversity indicators, Convention on Biological Diversity, vertebrates, population trends, overexploitation, livelihoods, wildlife management |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Genetics, Evolution and Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10146854 |
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