Provide access for wildlife-dependent recreation

Recreation that depends on wildlife, such as viewing and hunting, can be useful means to encourage engagement with wildlife and generating support and revenue for adaptation actions (Shafer 1999, Schlacher et al. 2013). Different forms of recreation can happen across the spectrum of public and private lands.

Climate change adaptation, especially situations that call for new styles of management, wildlife population changes, or wildlife range shifts may be suitable opportunities to engage or re-engage the public and communicate the intent of adaptation. Encouraging public engagement with wildlife can be an important aspect of climate change response, because a society that is more invested in the success of wildlife may be more likely to support new or more intensive measures for adaptation. This Strategy contains several Approaches that each deal with the human side of wildlife management.