The social hunting model: evolution and characterization in Extremadura

Abstract

The hunting activity in Spain is characterized by the coexistence of two models of different use, according to their purpose: social and private/commercial. The private/commercial model has a greater weight than the social model, although each autonomous community has its own particular situation. In this sense, Extremadura is a singular case in which both models show a balance in superficial extension. Despite this, while the so-called commercial hunting has a bibliographic corpus of certain relevance, the opposite has happened with social hunting. For this reason, the main objective of this work is to generate knowledge about a hunting model that is very representative in Extremadura, the social model. Of special interest in this work is the carrying out of a survey in which more than 130 local societies of federated hunters have participated in the region. The analysis of the answers obtained has been carried out using statistical techniques that have allowed interesting results to be obtained. Among them it is worth mentioning the notable masculinization of these societies, the low hunting quality of the lands they manage and the difficulties they encounter to undertake certain measures, due to the lack of economic resources.