Species Use Database

Moose
Alces alces

Used for Food and feed, Collection/display, Recreation and Conservation Management in Sweden

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: 2005

End Year: 2006


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


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?: not recorded

Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an economic perspective been recorded?: Yes, considered sustainable

Brief summary on why the use has been assessed/judged to be sustainable or unsustainable: "Since the great majority of the hunters in Sweden hunted moose, and the moose hunting value for the average moose hunter was approximately 7000 SEK, it is quite obvious that moose was the most important game species in economic terms." (p.171)

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

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: 2014-01-01T00:00:00+0000

Source Reference(s):

Mattsson, L., Boman, M. and Ezebilo, E.E., 2014. More or less moose: how is the hunting value affected?. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, 29(2), pp.170-173.

Date of record entry: 2023-05-22