Red deer (Cervus elaphus L.) is the third most widespread species of ungulates in Slovenia after roe deer and wild boar. Since the economic objective of game management planning in the Slovenia is not a priority it is understandable that economic efficiency of game management in Slovenia is very poorly researched. This thesis is the first in Slovenia that exposes the economic point of view of the red deer management in the sense of maximizing of permanent income from the annual harvest using domestic data on the level of the whole country. Firstly we used four different methods of reconstructing a hypothetical population and then calculated the age and sex specific non-hunting mortality or the probability of survival that was used in the continuation of the thesis. In the second part we found out that taking into consideration the data on the probability of survival has crucial influence on calculated values (of meat, trophies and total value of the animal) or economic sense of preserving a certain animals the population for the purpose of a later, more economically sensible cull. The main purpose of this thesis was to investigate how different age and sex structure of red deer populations with the same density (on the presumption that population's impacts on living space are independent from the sex and age structure) influences financial income of the red deer management in Slovenia, on the basis of real data. We financially valorized these populations with different combinations of harvest scenarios and identified which combinations of harvest scenarios permanently maximize harvest incomes. We concluded that the current management is not in line with all objectives from the long term forest and hunting management plans for regions in 2011-2020. From the economic perspective it is possible to almost permanently double the value of the annual harvest through a different sex and age specific harvest scenario. Along with all, it is important to point out that better economic efficiency can be attained without increasing the abundance of the population, without major interference in the viability of the population or in the long term survival of the population and without notable changes of the population's influence on the environment.
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