North Hunt

Three seminars are held during the project period: 

Social Sustainability of Hunting Tourism in periperal Areas - held in Sweden Sept. 2009
Future of Hunting in Northern Europe - held in Scotland May 2010
Mission Impossible? Sustainable Hunting Tourism - to be held in Finland November 2010

Mission Impossible? Sustainable Hunting Tourism

We would like to welcome all hunting tourism actors and stakeholders to the 3rd and final international conference of the NorthHunt project:

NORTH HUNT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 17-18 NOVEMBER, 2010, ROVANIEMI, FINLAND

The conference will focus on the entrepreneurship aspect of hunting tourism and one of the conference days will be dedicated to the business development of hunting tourism. The conference will also publish and facilitate discussion of all project results: the three pillars of sustainability (ecological, social and economic) and practical development (products and networks). NorthHunt training material will also be available for all participants to test and comment.

A detailed schedule will be available in the fall. For your travel arrangements we would like to announce that the travelling dates to the conference would be November 16th and 19th since the conference is scheduled to last two full days. A joint dinner will arranged on Wednesday evening, 17.11.2010.

The conference will be held at Arktikum and preliminary reservations for participants have been made at the Scandic hotel in the center of Rovaniemi. Instructions on registering will be posted by September.

Future of Hunting in Northern Europe

NORTH HUNT INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP, 4-5 MAY, 2010, MACDONALD AVIEMORE HIGHLAND RESORT, AVIEMORE, SCOTLAND

PROGRAMME

Presentation abstracts
 
TUESDAY 4 MAY
10:30 -11:00 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
11:00 – 13:00 HUNTING TOURISM: ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY (Chair: Sami Kurki)
11:00 - 11:20 Scott Newey & Sami Kurki - Welcome & Introduction to North Hunt
11:20 - 11:40 David Watts (Aberdeen University) - "North Hunt:  Cross-Country Comparison on Social Sustainability Findings"
11:40 - 12:00 Fredrik Dahl (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) - "eXpert monitoring models of game species - where X is the unknown factor"
12:00 - 12:20 Susanna Keskinarkaus (Ruralia Institute): "Is the demand for hunting increasing or decreasing?  The effect of demographic changes on the mumber of local hunters"
12:20 - 12:40 Steinar Beck (The Environment Agency of Iceland)
12:40 - 13:00 Justin Irvine (The Macaulay Land Use Research Institute) - "HUNTing for sustainability"

13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 – 17:00 NATURAL HERITAGE & HUNTING (Chair:  Steve Redpath)
14:00 - 14:25 Adam Smith (The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust) - "Glorious grouse, biodiversity benefits, and economic enhancement"
14:25 - 14:50 Fiona Newcombe & Linzi Seivwright (The Deer Commission for Scotland) - "Developing hunting tourism in Scotland"
14:50 - 15:15 Will Boyd-Wallis (The Cairngorms National Park Authority) - "Supporting sustainable deer management in the Cairngorms National Park"

15:15 - 15:45 TEA/COFFEE

15:45 - 16:10 Christopher Hewitt (Mar Lodge Estate, National Trust for Scotland) - "Mar Logde Estate - A case of discord or harmony with conservation on a Highland sporting estate?"
16:10 - 16:35 Gauti Jóhannesson (Adventura ehf) - "Developing reindeer hunting: From recreation to hunting tourism"
16:35 - 17:00 Panel (all above) Question & Answer session

18:00 – 20:00 GUEST SPEAKER & BUFFET DINNER
18:00 - 18:45 Mark Hamblin "tooth & claw"
18:45 - 20:00 Buffet Dinner 
 
WEDNESDAY 5 MAY
09:00 – 12:30 HUNTING TOURISM: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES (Chair: tbc)
09:00 - 09:30 Håkan Gyllbring (Rural Business Development Ltd., Sweden) - "Opportunities and challenges for hutning tourism in Northern Europe"
09:30 - 12:00 Breakout Group; 3 topics, 3 groups, each group spends 20 minutes on each topic

Topic 1:  Monitoring game populations and bag to enhance ecological, social and economic sustaionability (Scott Newey, Fredrik Dahl, Sami Kurki)

Topic 2:  Branding and Ethics of 'North Hunt' (Håkan Gyllbring, Markus Muutola, Eyrún Bjarnadóttir)

Topic 3: Managing sustainability in hunting toursm companies - business challenges (Anne Matilainen, Susanna Keskinarkaus)

10:15 - 10:45 TEA/COFFEE

11:30 - 12:00 Reporting and Discussion, Summing up

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 End
Here is a diagram from developed during the seminar showing the dominating land use categories in the respective countries (in part, regions: Northern Sweden, and Scottish Highlands) and the emerging activities in each. 

Social Sustainability of Hunting Tourism in peripheral Areas - 28.-29. sept. 2009. 

At SLU in Umeå, Sweden

Tentative Programme

Facilitator: Anders Esselin, SLU

28 Sept, afternoon
Session 1:Social sustainability of hunting tourism in the Northern Periphery
12:00 Introduction to the project and the seminar – Sami Kurki, Ruralia Institute, Finland
12:30 National reports from the North Hunt project & Stakeholder feedback
12:30 Finland: Susanna Keskinarkaus, Ruralia Institute
1310Sweden: Fredrik Dahl, SLU
13:50 Coffee, tea
14:20 Iceland:Eyrún J. Bjarnadóttir, ITRC and Hjördís Sigursteinsdóttir, RHA, University of Akureyri
15:00 Scotland: Colin Hunter, University of Aberdeen
15:40-16:00 Summing up so far – contrasts and similarities - Colin Hunter, University of Aberdeen

Stakeholder panel:
Sævar Guðjónsson, entrepreneur, Iceland
Jukka Bisi, Metsähallitus, Finland
+ other stakeholders representatives

29 Sept
Session 2: Sustainability of hunting and hunting tourism.
08:30 Interpreting sustainability in a tourism context–Robert Pettersson,ETOUR, Mid-Sweden University
09:10 Harvesting samll game - is there a need for thresholds? Tomas Willebrand, Hedmark, University College, Norway
09:50 Swedish studies in hunting & hunting tourism – Göran Ericsson, SLU, Sweden
10:30  Coffee, tea

International outlooks:
11:00 Canada – John Hull, New Zealand Tourism Institute
11:40 Interplay between formal and informal rules on hunting.  Information about the EU FP7 project HUNTing for sustainability - Camilla Sanström, Umeå university, Sweden
Sustainable harvest - incorporating human decisions by  Nils Bunnefeld
12:20 Lunch

Session 3:  Hunting rights and feeling of ownership
13:20 Introduction – Setting the stage – Anne Matilainen, Ruralia Institute, Finland
13:40 Panel discussion – Participants:Elvar Árni Lund,Icelandic Hunting and Shooting Association;Tommy Holmberg, NordGuide, Sweden; Jukka Bisi, Metsähallitus, Finland;+ other stakeholder representatives
14:40 Coffee, tea

Session 4: Conclusion
15:10 Synthesis of national reports – Sami Kurki, Ruralia Institute, Finland
15:35 Final comment - Shawn Riley, SLU/Michigan State University
16:00 Closing of conference

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