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| Adams, W.M. | |
| Sportsman's shot, poacher's pot: hunting, local people and the history of conservation | |
| 2009 Book Chapter | |
The histories of sport or recreational hunting and conservation are closely entwined. Hunting, particularly the shooting of large mammals, had an important place in the history of wildlife conservation in the 20th century. A critical source of conservation sensibilities in the late Victorian era came from those who hunted 'big game' in the British Empire, such as the so-called 'penitent butchers' of the Fauna Preservation Society (Fitter & Scott, 1974). The modern patterns and practices of conservation that developed through the 20th century owed a great deal to the political organisation of elite hunters (for example in the British colonial conservation organisation the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire (SPWFE) (1905), or the US Boone and Crockett Club (MacKenzie, 1988; Prendergast & Adams, 2003; Adams, 2004). |
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