{"title":"State Game Laws and Nuisance Species","authors":"Eric T. Freyfogle, D. Goble, Todd A. Wildermuth","doi":"10.5822/978-1-61091-915-9_7","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"English-speaking settlers had hardly arrived in North America when colonial governments began enacting laws that controlled how people hunted and fished. Shortages of deer appeared early, as did disputes over access to fishing and shellfish grounds. Even when shortages were not acute it made sense, many colonists realized, to avoid disturbing wildlife during breeding seasons. From early colonial days, in short, governments were involved in wild animal management.","PeriodicalId":52446,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-915-9_7","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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English-speaking settlers had hardly arrived in North America when colonial governments began enacting laws that controlled how people hunted and fished. Shortages of deer appeared early, as did disputes over access to fishing and shellfish grounds. Even when shortages were not acute it made sense, many colonists realized, to avoid disturbing wildlife during breeding seasons. From early colonial days, in short, governments were involved in wild animal management.
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Drawing upon the findings from island biogeography studies, Norman Myers estimates that we are losing between 50-200 species per day, a rate 120,000 times greater than the background rate during prehistoric times. Worse still, the rate is accelerating rapidly. By the year 2000, we may have lost over one million species, counting back from three centuries ago when this trend began. By the middle of the next century, as many as one half of all species may face extinction. Moreover, our rapid destruction of critical ecosystems, such as tropical coral reefs, wetlands, estuaries, and rainforests may seriously impair species" regeneration, a process that has taken several million years after mass extinctions in the past.
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