Profile of a Modern Hunter and the Socio-Economic Significance of Hunting in Poland as Compared to European Data

Hunting is a unique form of activity in rural areas with high proportion forest areas, which involves nature conservation and meets social needs for recreation the preservation traditions while being an important part economic activity. The presented study results, based on literature review questionnaire surveys conducted among hunters associated hunting clubs north-eastern Poland, provide basis discussion socio-economic significance hunting, both country throughout European continent. Based results paper, it can be concluded that number density differ individual countries. Moreover, practised Europe by almost 7 million people, 127,000 are typical male Most Poland other countries professionally active inhabitants aged approximately 50 years, several years shooting experience income exceeding average values. activities, particularly areas. It estimated EU alone, worth EUR 16 billion, creates 100–120 thousand jobs. most recent studies certain wide range services provided sector indicate these values may considerably higher. Regarding despite centralised game resource management system, there no extensive official data limited to few basic indices related statistics. As indicated this hunting-related expenditures clearly lower than and, thus, relatively low country. Despite this, community that, as result adopted system solutions, responsible functioning reasonable significantly affecting vast majority