Editing Hunting (section)

===Studies===
[[File:Cage trap on a farm, Namibia.jpg|thumb|Cage [[Trapping#Trap types|trap]] ([[Trapping#Cage traps (live traps)|live trap]]) for [[cheetah]]s on a farm in [[Namibia]]]]
A study published by the [[Wildlife Society]] concluded that hunting and trapping are cost effective tools that reduce wildlife damage by reducing a population below the capacity of the environment to carry it and changing the behaviors of animals to stop them from causing damage. The study furthermore states that the cessation of hunting could cause wildlife to be severely harmed, rural property values to fall, and the incentive of landowners to maintain natural habitats to diminish.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.njfishandwildlife.com/pdf/bear/policy_lit/conover01.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.njfishandwildlife.com/pdf/bear/policy_lit/conover01.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|last=Conover|first= Michael R. |title=Effect of Hunting and Trapping on Wildlife Damage|journal= [[Wildlife Society Bulletin]]|volume= 29. No. 2 (Summer. 2001)|pages= 521–32|publisher= Allen Press|access-date=19 August 2015}}</ref>

Although deforestation and forest degradation have long been considered the most significant threats to tropical biodiversity, across Southeast Asia (Northeast India, Indochina, Sundaland, Philippines) substantial areas of natural habitat have few wild animals (>1&nbsp;kg), bar a few hunting‐tolerant species.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.12785|title=Impacts of hunting on tropical forests in Southeast Asia: Hunting in Tropical Forests|first1=Rhett D.|last1=Harrison|first2=Rachakonda|last2=Sreekar|first3=Jedediah F.|last3=Brodie|first4=Sarah|last4=Brook|first5=Matthew|last5=Luskin|first6=Hannah|last6=O'Kelly|first7=Madhu|last7=Rao|first8=Brett|last8=Scheffers|first9=Nandini|last9=Velho|date=12 October 2016|journal=Conservation Biology|volume=30|issue=5|pages=972–981|doi=10.1111/cobi.12785|pmid=27341537 |s2cid=3793259 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |doi = 10.1111/ddi.12292|title = The use of species-area relationships to partition the effects of hunting and deforestation on bird extirpations in a fragmented landscape|year = 2015|last1 = Sreekar|first1 = Rachakonda|last2 = Huang|first2 = Guohualing|last3 = Zhao|first3 = Jiang-Bo|last4 = Pasion|first4 = Bonifacio O.|last5 = Yasuda|first5 = Mika|last6 = Zhang|first6 = Kai|last7 = Peabotuwage|first7 = Indika|last8 = Wang|first8 = Ximin|last9 = Quan|first9 = Rui-Chang|last10 = Ferry Slik|first10 = J. W.|last11 = Corlett|first11 = Richard T.|last12 = Goodale|first12 = Eben|last13 = Harrison|first13 = Rhett D.|journal = Diversity and Distributions|volume = 21|issue = 4|pages = 441–450| s2cid=55972282 |doi-access = free| bibcode=2015DivDi..21..441S }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |doi = 10.1111/acv.12588|title = Combining camera-trap surveys and hunter interviews to determine the status of mammals in protected rainforests and rubber plantations of Menglun, Xishuangbanna, SW China|year = 2020|last1 = Huang|first1 = G.|last2 = Sreekar|first2 = R.|last3 = Velho|first3 = N.|last4 = Corlett|first4 = R. T.|last5 = Quan|first5 = R.-C.|last6 = Tomlinson|first6 = K. W.|journal = Animal Conservation| volume=23 | issue=6 | pages=689–699 | bibcode=2020AnCon..23..689H | s2cid=218779515 }}</ref>