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closeLand use change
Posted by RCampbell on 24 Jun 2012 at 06:26 GMT
result in a concomitant loss of habitat. However, the loss of lion hunting could have other potentially broader negative impacts including reduction of competitiveness of wildlife-based land uses relative to ecologically unfavourable alternatives.
http://plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0029332#article1.front1.article-meta1.abstract1.p1
This paper presents no primary and little secondary research on drivers of land use change. Reducing lion hunting - note again that a ban is not practical - would have minor impact on hunting viability, as this paper claims. Hunting's inability to compete with agricultural land uses on a per area basis will hardly be affected by proposed changes. Untested statements such as these should be limited to a discussion section and well referenced, rather than appearing in the abstract.