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JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION
Volume 61, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnc.2021.126000
Keywords
Captive breeding; Translocation; Population reinforcement; Supplementation; Game management; Sustainable hunting
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- Ahmed bin Zayed Charitable Foundation
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Conservation measures for African houbara and Asian houbara include habitat management, reducing collisions, predator control, reducing poaching and trapping, captive breeding, and hunting controls.
African houbara (Chlamydotis undulata) and Asian houbara (C. macqueenii), classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, have been over-exploited across their global ranges. The highest-profile conservation response has been large-scale releases of captive-bred birds, potentially threatening wild populations through introgression. Options for increasing numbers of the species are habitat management to counter overgrazing (in North Africa and the Middle East), mitigation of powerline collisions, predator control (ethically questionable and impractical), reduction of poaching and trapping, limited captive breeding, and hunting controls. Assuming hunting continues, the best model for conserving both species is a system of sustainable hunting that incorporates stakeholder observance, involvement of stakeholders and local communities in decisions and monitoring, protection of nohunting areas, scientifically-determined quotas, small-scale use of captive-bred birds, and-if numbers still fail to respond, as a last resort-moratoria. These measures provide the only realistic guarantee for the long-term survival of Arab falconry, a part of humanity's intangible cultural heritage.
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