Integrating Sustainability and Tradition: Challenges and Opportunities in Uruguayan Hunting Practices
Keywords:
Hunting Management, Sport and Recreational Hunting, Wild Boar Hunting, Latin America, UruguayAbstract
Recreational or sport hunting elicits a wide range of opinions within society. Its management can lead to varied environmental, economic, and social impacts. This activity is thoroughly regulated and researched in the Global North and parts of Africa and Asia, yet it remains relatively unexplored in Latin America. Through an ethnographic approach that incorporates open-ended interviews and participant observation of wild boar hunting, this study offers several recommendations for improving hunting management in Uruguay, South America. It considers aspects of hunting governance, local traditions, and this practice’s ecological and economic sustainability.
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