Incentives toward conservation of argali Ovis ammon: A case study of trophy hunting in Western China
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We investigated management of wildlife, vation at the local level, thus undermining the intended incentive system. Because local wildlife protection habitat, and the hunting programme in Aksai County, Gansu Province, People’s Republic of China, during oBcials have been denied both funding and authority to deal with threats to the wildlife, the programme’s contri1997–2000. Argali Ovis ammon is the focal species both for conservation and hunting. The hunting programme bution to conservation has been minor. We recommend that hunters pay fees directly to county-level staC, thus is intended to produce incentives to conserve wildlife and habitat. Poaching, a serious concern throughout increasing the proportion of funds retained at countylevel, and that this added income is used to obtain wildwestern China, has been reduced in recent years in Aksai. Wildlife population trends are unknown because life grazing rights on important seasonal habitats for argali. These changes would promote local wildlife standardized surveys were begun only in 2000. Threats to argali in Aksai include livestock grazing, placer conservation without the need for additional external funding. gold mining, and development of a dam, reservoir and aqueduct. The number of hunters participating in the programme (c. 3 per year) could provide considerable
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