"Wildlife management is the management process influencing interactions among and between wildlife, its habitats and people to achieve predefined impacts."
The practice of managing populations of wild animals in forest ecosystems, including habitat management and predator control.
Biodiversity: This is the variety of life in a specific ecosystem, including the number and variety of different plants, animals, and microorganisms.
Habitat management: This includes ensuring that the right plants are present for wildlife food, shelter, and breeding, maintaining appropriate levels of water quality and quantity, and keeping the habitat free of invasive species.
Wildlife population ecology: This covers the study of how populations of different wildlife species interact with their environment, including their prey or predators, and how these interact with each other.
Wildlife behavior: This covers the study of how animals behave in their environment, including their social behavior, courtship and mating, migration, and other aspects relevant to understanding how to manage a wildlife population.
Ecosystem management: This involves the management of interactions between different species and their environment to promote overall health, stability, and resilience of the ecosystem.
Wildlife conservation: This covers the use of various strategies to protect, conserve, and enhance populations of wildlife species, including conservation breeding programs and habitat conservation measures.
Forest management: This covers the management of forest resources, including timber harvesting, prescribed burning, and invasive species control, among others.
Wildlife management ethics: This covers the ethical considerations and principles governing wildlife management practices, including sustainability and animal welfare.
Conservation biology: This covers the study of how to protect and conserve the biodiversity of an ecosystem, including the various strategies and approaches for accomplishing this.
Wildlife disease management: This covers the management of diseases that affect wildlife, including infectious diseases, parasites, and other health concerns.
Timber management: This involves the sustainable harvesting of timber to ensure that forests remain productive.
Wildlife habitat management: This involves providing the necessary habitat for specific wildlife species to thrive.
Fire management: This involves reducing the risk of forest fires by controlling fuel buildup and managing controlled burns.
Invasive species management: This involves the control and removal of non-native species that can disrupt ecosystems and harm native species.
Pest management: This involves controlling pest populations that can harm wildlife, such as ticks and other parasites.
Water management: This involves managing water sources within forests to ensure that wildlife has access to enough water.
Recreation management: This involves managing recreational use of forests to minimize the impact on wildlife and their habitats.
Grazing management: This involves managing grazing areas within forests to ensure that wildlife has access to enough food.
Predator management: This involves managing predator populations to ensure that their impact on wildlife is minimized.
Restoration management: This involves restoring degraded forests to their natural state to support healthy wildlife populations.
"Wildlife management draws on disciplines such as mathematics, chemistry, biology, ecology, climatology, and geography to gain the best results."
"Wildlife management aims to halt the loss in the Earth's biodiversity, by taking into consideration ecological principles such as carrying capacity, disturbance and succession, and environmental conditions."
"Techniques can include reforestation, pest control, nitrification and denitrification, irrigation, coppicing, and hedge laying."
"In his 1933 book Game Management, Aldo Leopold defined it as 'the art of making land produce sustained annual crops of wild game for recreational use.'"
"Pest control is the control of real or perceived pests and can be used for the benefit of wildlife, farmers, gamekeepers, or human safety."
"In the United States, wildlife management practices are often implemented by a governmental agency to uphold a law, such as the Endangered Species Act."
"Wildlife management in the United Kingdom is undertaken by several organizations including government bodies such as the Forestry Commission, Charities such as the RSPB and The Wildlife Trusts, and privately hired gamekeepers and contractors."
"Legislation has also been passed to protect wildlife such as the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981."
"The UK government also gives farmers subsidies through the Countryside Stewardship Scheme to improve the conservation value of their farms."
"Most wildlife biologists are concerned with the conservation and improvement of habitats; although rewilding is increasingly being undertaken."
"Ecological principles such as carrying capacity, disturbance and succession, and environmental conditions are taken into consideration in wildlife management."
"Techniques can include reforestation, pest control, nitrification and denitrification, irrigation, coppicing, and hedge laying."
"The main goal of wildlife conservation is to halt the loss in the Earth's biodiversity."
"Gamekeeping is the management or control of wildlife for the well-being of game and may include the killing of other animals which share the same niche or predators to maintain a high population of more profitable species."
"The primary factors influencing wildlife management are the interactions among and between wildlife, its habitats, and people."
"Wildlife management attempts to balance the needs of wildlife with the needs of people using the best available science."
"Wildlife management practices in the United States are often implemented by a governmental agency to uphold a law, such as the Endangered Species Act."
"The Forestry Commission in the United Kingdom is one of the government bodies involved in wildlife management."
"Pest control can be used for the benefit of wildlife, farmers, gamekeepers, or human safety."