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Not merely a zoologist, the modern wildlife manager is primarily a decision-maker, seeking to cause desired change in populations, their spaces, or in people. Once "game" oriented, wildlife specialists increasingly turn to work with large scale systems and are now as willing to address landscape ecology as an inbreeding coefficient of an endangered species. They move to work with total production systems.

Although wildlife can be produced, the emphasis in this paper is on vertebrate pest damage management. More crop and forest net gains will be made by controlling animal damage than by increasing area yields.

Additional returns from the wildlife manager will be in pressing for optimization, for total systems work, for computer analyses of systems typically at the margin.

Options for specific micro-management of faunal projects within agroforestry, highly variable among world zones, include: raising birds, aquaculture, raising reptiles, managing harvests and markets for bushmeat, raising wild creatures (e.g., the grass cutter), and improving processing of products.

The realm called eco-tourism offers wildlife-based dimensions for agroforestry.

Last revision January 17, 2000.