Territorial planning and game management. A Model of hunting regions in Mallorca
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Abstract
Hunting has a great social and territorial importance in Mallorca (Balearic Islands - Spain) hence, it should be managed according to sustainable criteria. Technical hunting plans are instruments aimed at resource exploitation regulation, even though they have certain territorial limitations, especially when are limited just to reduced particular hunting spaces. This paper pretends to design a model of hunting regionalization in Mallorca to facilitate the full and effective implementation of the hunting management and planning tools. In this sense, it has been developed a complex multivariate matrix that includes 30 physiographic units of the island linked with 26 variables related to physical environment, human factors and game indicators. Following a multivariate statistical treatment with SPSS program, by means of principal components and cluster analysis method, it was obtained the information necessary to perform territorial grouping. The proposed model consists of 7 hunting regions: Plains, marines and minor mountain ranges (1), Northern Basin (2), Marine (3), Scrublands and mountains (4), Mountain (5), Palma (6) and Lagoon (7) .