Title of the project

Brown Hare Monitoring

Description

The case study used spotlight strip census routes to estimate Brown Hare numbers in a 793 ha hunting district by local hunters.

The habitats, dominated by intensively farmed arable land were also mapped.
Guidelines from the German monitoring programme WILD (German wildlife information system – www.jagdnetz.de/wild) were applied

This is part of a Germany-wide long-term monitoring program of game populations which is carried out by hunters and was initiated by the German Hunters’ Association and the Hunters’ Association of Lower Saxony in 2001.

Location

Country	Germany
Level	Local
Site	Leveste
Municipalities involved	Municipality of Gehrden
Province(s)	Hanover
Region	Lower Saxony

Starting date

1991

Habitat Types

Farmland

Species

Species Caracteristics	Huntable species
Species Type	Mammals
Name(s) of main species	Brown Hare - Lepus europaeus

Conservation action(s)

Research and data collection (e.g. monitoring, bag data)

Partners

Leading partners

Egbert Strauß: local hunter
http://www.tiho-hannover.de/index.php?id=5594

Estimation of Human Resources needed

approx 52 days

Per year?

Publication(s)

Census of the Brown Hare (Lepus europaeus) at Leveste, Municipality of Gehrden, Germany in Transactional Environmental Support System Design: Global Solutions
Gabor von Bethlenfalvy, Julia Hindersin, & Egbert Strauß, 2013