Publication Date

1993

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The popularity of gamebird hunting as a sport in Southern Africa serves as an incentive to rangeland owners to increase biodiversity on their properties. Gamebird utilisation is compatible with virtually all forms of land use, be it crop, domestic stock or wildlife production or a combination thereof, The range in habitat requirements, behaviour patterns and feeding niches of indigenous gameblrds ensures that at least one species is compatible with a specific agricultural practice, climate or vegetation type. Marginal and wasteland areas such as marsl}es, gullies, road verges and rocky outcrops, are prime gamebird production areas. The prospects of sport and profit make gamebird production the ideal integrated system for optimum use of biodiversity and natural resources with little or no extra capital outlay. At the same time it motivates the land owner to implement sound conservation and management practices.

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Integrated Gamebird Farming as an Incentive to Promote Biodiversity and Conservation of Rangelands

The popularity of gamebird hunting as a sport in Southern Africa serves as an incentive to rangeland owners to increase biodiversity on their properties. Gamebird utilisation is compatible with virtually all forms of land use, be it crop, domestic stock or wildlife production or a combination thereof, The range in habitat requirements, behaviour patterns and feeding niches of indigenous gameblrds ensures that at least one species is compatible with a specific agricultural practice, climate or vegetation type. Marginal and wasteland areas such as marsl}es, gullies, road verges and rocky outcrops, are prime gamebird production areas. The prospects of sport and profit make gamebird production the ideal integrated system for optimum use of biodiversity and natural resources with little or no extra capital outlay. At the same time it motivates the land owner to implement sound conservation and management practices.