Abstract Trophy hunting is one of the most contentious issues in recent biodiversity conservation discourse, eliciting opposition and support for practice. Ethical concerns are often at heart debate. To investigate moral views about trophy hunting, we conducted an online survey randomly selected scholars worldwide who had published on ( n = 2315). Scholars expressed divergent acceptability as a...

Hunting is an increasingly contentious topic. Trophy hunting, whereby people hunt individual animals with desirable characteristics in order to keep body parts (e.g. horns, heads, hides, antlers) as mementos, especially contested. Political pressure, often the form of trophy import bans, being applied multiple nations, and campaigns ban or imports, attract considerable media attention. However,...

The trophy hunting industry in Tanzania plays a significant role wildlife conservation as well economic and community development. Trophy has been conducted Rungwa Game Reserve (RGR) for several decades; however, the opinions from local communities living adjacent to reserve are not documented. This study aimed assess awareness attitudes of Reserves toward hunting. Furthermore, assessed factors...

Trophy hunting has severe consequences on wild animals’ behaviors, which in return implications for affecting wildlife populations. The Selous Game Reserve is a protected area Tanzania that been subjected to commercial trophy decades, and information about the effects of welfare still scarce. Flight Initiating Distance (FID) can be good measure evaluate animals level risk perception towards ant...