Recreational hunting Sample Clauses

Recreational hunting. The ecosystem service is hunting wild game. The ecosystem service of hunting is closely related to the provisioning of game as the latter is a prerequisite for the first. Providing game is considered as a provisioning ecosystem service whereas hunting is a recreational activity under cultural ecosystem services. People (hunters) are often involved in hunting for both purposes and these interests often overlap. Therefore it is difficult to determine under which category the service of provisioning of game/hunting falls or how to divide it into shares. In the selection of suitable methods to assess the value of the ecosystem service of provisioning of game/hunting we considered following approaches: 1. Provisioning of game as a provisioning service 2. Hunting as a cultural service These two approaches characterize two different aspect that the asset provides, therefore it is possible to add the provisioning and recreational value of game/hunting when overlapping part is first determined.