Record | Species Use Database

A. Species

Scientific name: Alces alces

Common name(s): Moose

Global IUCN Red List Threat Status: Least Concern

B. Location of use

Geographic location(s):

Sweden

Country/Region:

C. Scale of assessment

Scale of assessment: National Level

Name/Details of location: Sweden

D. Timescale of use

Start Year: 2012

End Year: 2021

E. Information about the use

How is the wild species sourced?: Wild species sourced from its natural habitat

Type of use: Extractive

Practice of use: Hunting and/or Trapping of live terrestrial and aerial animals

Lethal or non-lethal: Lethal

Does this use involve take/extraction of: The whole entire organism

Purpose(s) of end use: Food and feed, Collection/display, Recreation and Conservation Management

Motivation of use: Income generation from trade (individual/household/community), Recreational and Population/Area Management

Is this use legal or illegal?: Legal under national law

F. Information about the Users

Which stakeholder(s) does the record primarily focus on?: Local people and National / local government

G. Information about the sustainability of use

Is there evidence that the use is having an impact on the target species?: Wild species sourced from its natural habitat

Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an ecological perspective been recorded?: No, sustainability not determined

Brief summary on why the use has been assessed/judged to be sustainable or unsustainable: Collaborative governance seems to have improved adaptive management of moose populations

Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an economic perspective been recorded?: No, sustainability not determined

Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from a social perspective been recorded?: No, sustainability not determined

Brief summary on why the use has been assessed/judged to be sustainable or unsustainable: Collaborative governance seems to have increased the legitimacy of the moose management

Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from a human health perspective been recorded?: not recorded

Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an animal health/welfare perspective been recorded?: not recorded

Recommendations provided in the record to maintain or enhance the sustainability of the use of the target species

Record source

Information about the record source: scientific_pub

Date of publication/issue/production: 2021-01-01T00:00:00+0000

Source Reference(s):

Dressel, S., Sjölander-Lindqvist, A., Johansson, M., Ericsson, G. and Sandström, C., 2021. Achieving social and ecological outcomes in collaborative environmental governance: Good examples from swedish moose management. Sustainability, 13(4), p.2329.

Date of record entry: 2023-05-22

Species Use Database

Moose Alces alces