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  2. Overabundant species - Wikipedia

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    In biology, overabundant species refers to an excessive number of individuals [1] and occurs when the normal population density has been exceeded. Increase in animal populations is influenced by a variety of factors, some of which include habitat destruction or augmentation by human activity, the introduction of invasive species and the reintroduction of threatened species to protected reserves.

  3. Fact check: Are alligators overpopulated in the Beaufort ...

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    The species’ rebound was so successful that the state instituted a hunting season in 2008, which accounts for the yearly harvest of 300-400 gators across the state. DNR estimates there are about ...

  4. Sustainable hunting - Wikipedia

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    Sustainable hunting is a conservation-based hunting approach that does not reduce the density [1] of the game animal being hunted via the adherence to hunting limits. [2] Sustainable hunting is a method of hunting that focuses on not degrading the environment and using fees related to hunting for conservation purposes to instead protect and ...

  5. Working animal - Wikipedia

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    Working animals are usually raised on farms, though some are still captured from the wild, such as dolphins and some Asian elephants. Traditional farming methods using oxen. People have found uses for a wide variety of abilities in animals, and even industrialized societies use many animals for work.

  6. Hunting - Wikipedia

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    Bushmen bowhunting for bushmeat in Botswana. Hunting is the human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, and killing wildlife or feral animals. [10] The most common reasons for humans to hunt are to obtain the animal's body for meat and useful animal products (fur/hide, bone/tusks, horn/antler, etc.), for recreation/taxidermy (see trophy hunting), although it may also be done for ...

  7. Professional hunter - Wikipedia

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    German professional hunters (Berufsjäger or Berufsjägerinnen depending on gender) mostly work for large private forest estates and for state-owned forest enterprises, where they control browsing by reducing the numbers of ungulates like roe deer or chamois, manage populations of sought-after trophy species like red deer and act as hunting guides for paying clients.

  8. Federal agency given deadline to explain why deadly Nevada ...

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    A judge has asked federal land managers to explain why they should be allowed to continue capturing more than 2,500 wild horses in northeastern Nevada — a roundup opponents say is illegal and ...

  9. Population control - Wikipedia

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    Population control is the practice of artificially maintaining the size of any population.It simply refers to the act of limiting the size of an animal population so that it remains manageable, as opposed to the act of protecting a species from excessive rates of extinction, which is referred to as conservation biology.