ABSTRACT
This chapter assesses the range of forms of wildlife utilization that lie between the two endpoints of domestication and sustainable harvesting. It presents a few of the important characteristics of wildlife utilization for conservation effectiveness, which can be summed up as low intensity and high diversity. The different wildlife exploitation systems, are known by a confusing variety of terms, often based on details of practical husbandry. The ranching of wildlife therefore has implications for wildlands, and must be more carefully analysed. Ranching is bringing the wild population into contact with a human-controlled environment for some portion of their lives. The more extensive forms of wildlife use, i.e. the variety of ranching regimes, rely on the maintenance of extensive areas of natural habitat and are generally more beneficial for conservation. The less intensive forms of utilization, extensive ranching and wild harvests, have the potential to contribute substantially to wildland and wildlife conservation.
