Associating Metrics of Hunting Effort with Hunting Rate: A Case Study with the Wild Boar Sus scrofa

Wild boar Sus scrofa populations have increased dramatically in recent decades throughout Europe. While hunting is widely used management activities; it rarely has an important role regulating and reducing wild populations. Therefore, increasing the efficiency of a compelling issue. In this study, we three-year dataset (2016–2018) on population living Campania (southern Italy) as case study to explore how effort made collective drive hunts affected rate, estimated number individuals culled per day. We fitted Linear Mixed Model, which included boars hunt dependent variable, beaters, shooters dogs month during occurred predictors. A mean 1.81 were hunt. The animals with progression season (i.e., from October December), whereas beaters had no effect. Overall, observed low rate. suggest that adjusting calendar reorganising hunts, e.g., through appropriate training dogs, are essential increase Our results can be useful for wildlife managers enhance contribution counteracting negative impact boar.