Dearth of Studies on Hunting in Indiaby Krithi K. Karanth
Hunting remains one of the major conservation threats across the
world, particularly in tropical countries. Nandini Velho, Krithi
K. Karanth and William F. Laurance analyze hunting studies from
India. These are the highlights of their study from their paper
published in the journal, Biological Conservation. - The authors
did a meta-analysis of 143 published studies on hunting in
India. - 114 mammal species are hunted across India and large
bodied species are the most vulnerable. - A majority (76%) of
studies focused on mammals but did not quantify hunting impacts.
- Eastern-Himalaya and Indo-Myanmar regions are the most
vulnerable. - Quantitative studies on hunting are needed on
different species across India. The studies were compiled based
on Web of Knowledge search and grouped into categories (studies
on socio-economic and biological drivers of hunting, abundance
or distribution of species linked to hunting, genetic and
molecular studies to identify