A. Species
Scientific name: Rusa unicolor
Common name(s): Sambar deer, Cervus unicolor
Global IUCN Red List Threat Status: Vulnerable
B. Location of use
Geographic location(s):
- Victoria
Country/Region: Australia / State of Victoria
C. Scale of assessment
Scale of assessment: Sub-national / Sub-region / Sub-State
Name/Details of location: State of Victoria.
D. Timescale of use
Start Year: 2021
End Year: 2021
E. Information about the use
How is the wild species sourced?: Wild species sourced from a suitable habitat but not its own 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 and Recreation
Motivation of use: Basic subsistence and Recreational
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 a suitable habitat but not its own natural habitat
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an ecological perspective been recorded?: Yes, considered sustainable
Details of assessment carried out: Deer were censused by the Victoria Game Management Authority.
Brief summary on why the use has been assessed/judged to be sustainable or unsustainable: Deer are invasive species in Australia. The intention of the use in this study was to ensure numbers do not increase while maintaining sufficient deer to support recreational hunting.
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an economic perspective been recorded?: Yes, considered sustainable
Details of assessment carried out: author opinion - deer are invasive
Brief summary on why the use has been assessed/judged to be sustainable or unsustainable: The intention of this survey was to monitor harvest rates to ensure deer numbers were controlled so as not to damage the ecosystem while maintaining sufficient deer to service recreational hunters.
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from a social perspective been recorded?: Yes, considered sustainable
Details of assessment carried out: author opinion - deer are invasive
Brief summary on why the use has been assessed/judged to be sustainable or unsustainable: The intention of this survey was to monitor harvest rates to ensure deer numbers were controlled so as not to damage the ecosystem while maintaining sufficient deer to service recreational hunters.
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from a human health perspective been recorded?: Yes, considered sustainable
Details of assessment carried out: established
Brief summary on why the use has been assessed/judged to be sustainable or unsustainable: deer meat consumed worldwide
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an animal health/welfare perspective been recorded?: not recorded
Details of assessment carried out: study does not investigate
Brief summary on why the use has been assessed/judged to be sustainable or unsustainable: study does not investigate
Recommendations provided in the record to maintain or enhance the sustainability of the use of the target species
The study advocates that the people conducting telephone surveys [of hunters] need to ensure that the number, species and sex of the harvested deer have been recorded unambiguously when possible. This is to optimise census data and to set suitable hunting quotas.
Record source
Information about the record source: grey_lit
Date of publication/issue/production: 2019-01-01T00:00:00+0000
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Date of record entry: 2022-11-28