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The effect of the abolition of serfdom on the land degradations in Croatia and Slavonia as a result of unregulated hunting

With the abolition of serfdom and class privileges in Croatia and Slavonia in 1848, equality of all citizens was proclaimed before the law. Consequently, apart from the space that the noblemen retained for themselves as hunting grounds, all residents could freely hunt. But it soon became apparent that this was not a good solution. Peasants deprived of the serf obligations and bans begin to hunt down everything that comes to their hands, seriously threatening the game of wildlife and the biodiversity of the environment. Such iregular hunting caused disbalance of the ecosystem. Fields are often neglected, and when they hunt, they often go over crops and destroy or damage them. With no control in forest cutting, land degradation by wind and water erosion started to appear with knock-on effects for other ecological functions, including seed dispersal and forest regeneration. But the authorities soon intervened in such an almost unlimited freedom and the Croatian-Slavonic Regency issued the Order concerning the hunting on 4th April 1859. With this new order, special hunting grounds were established outside of those that noblemen retained for themselves. For the first time a tenancy for such hunting grounds is introduced.

land degradations ; Croatia ; Slavonia ; abolition of serfdom ; unregulated hunting ; 19th century

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