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- Title
Membership trends and attitudes of a Greek hunting community.
- Authors
Liordos, Vasilios
- Abstract
The membership trends and attitudes of a Greek hunting community, the Megara Hunting Club, were determined through the analysis of 408 questionnaires. The number of hunting licences increased from 2003 to 2008, decreasing thereafter, mostly because a proportion of hunters holding a national licence quit hunting. This was in agreement with the onset of the national debt crisis and the concurrent decrease of the gross domestic product. Factor analysis revealed that hunters rather agreed that a 'systemic' (mean score 3.48) and rather disagreed that a 'legal' (2.59) factor negatively affected the practice of hunting, while they agreed that a 'game status' factor (4.06) was important. In particular, they contended that improved hunting administration and stakeholder collaboration are needed (systemic dimension), and game populations have declined due to anthropogenic activities such as illegal hunting, pollution, habitat loss and climate change (game status dimension). Findings suggest that, in the light of the ongoing economic crisis, immediate action should be taken toward the retention of hunters and protection and enhancement of game, through the application of appropriate policy and management measures.
- Subjects
GREECE; MEMBERSHIP; HUNTER attitudes; FACTOR analysis; STATISTICAL correlation; FINANCIAL crises
- Publication
European Journal of Wildlife Research, 2014, Vol 60, Issue 5, p821
- ISSN
1612-4642
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10344-014-0830-3