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Oregon Chapter of The Wildlife Society 2020 Annual Meeting, Oregon, United States Of America, 07 February 2020, pp.57, (Summary Text)
Wildlife-related tourism is an important economic contributor to wildlife
management in developed western countries. For example, total, wildlife-related
recreation expenditures were 157 billion dollars in the USA and 20 billion
dollars in Germany in 2016. A significant portion of wildlife-related revenues
is spent on conservation studies. Revenue from all wildlife-related recreation
expenditures in Turkey is 27 million dollars per year. Between 2000-2018 years,
about 23 thousand hunters took 27 thousand animals and generated only about 4
million dollars in hunting tourism revenues in Turkey. By comparison, during 2018
hunters in Germany, which is less than half the size of Turkey, harvested
approximately 1.2 million roe deer, 77 thousand red deer, and 63 thousand
fallow deer. Even the number of harvested big game animals was 53 thousand in
Oregon State in 2018. Turkey supports a variety of species that are desirable
to local and foreign hunters such as brown bear, gray wolf, lynx, caracal,
chamois, wild goat, wild sheep, red deer, roe deer, gazelle and wild boar. Increasing
wildlife-related revenues in Turkey is constrained by poor wildlife management
practices that stem from poor university-level wildlife education. Therefore,
all stakeholders (whether environmental or not) have to fulfil their roles and
responsibilities fully in the management of natural resources and encourage
both wildlife-related education and recruitment of qualified personnel with
wildlife education in related institutions as possible as. That's when
wildlife-related tourism income can be increased to the desired level by making
necessary studies on wildlife management and conservation in Turkey.