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Animal Use

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Wildlife can be used in a variety of ways, involving different degrees of human intervention and modification of natural habitats, with varying effects on conservation. At one end of the spectrum lie in situ harvesting regimes, such as the harvesting of wild plants and animals for subsistence use by local communities. Many, perhaps most, harvests of wild species have in the past resulted in population declines but, if practised at appropriate intensity, these forms of use could be sustainable and need entail little alteration of natural ecological processes. In such cases they might be of conservation benefit if they also provided an economic incentive for conserving natural habitats. At the other end of the scale, wildlife can be brought into captivity and reared in a controlled environment (a process leading eventually to domestication) which usually has little or no conservation value. In between these two extremes there is a range of different containment or husbandry systems, varying from the intensive to the extensive. The implications for the conservation of biodiversity of these different forms of use are considered below.

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  • Green Turtle
  • Bluefin Tuna
  • Local Breed
  • Wild Ungulate
  • Musk Deer

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