field, sports, confused, with, track, field, this, article, appears, dictionary, definition, please, rewrite, present, subject, from, encyclopedic, point, view, april, 2020, outdoor, sports, that, take, place, wilderness, sparsely, populated, rural, areas, whe. Not to be confused with track and field This article appears to be a dictionary definition Please rewrite it to present the subject from an encyclopedic point of view April 2020 Field sports are outdoor sports that take place in the wilderness or sparsely populated rural areas 1 where there are vast areas of uninhabited greenfields The term specifically refers to activities that mandate sufficiently large open spaces and or interaction with natural ecosystems including hiking canyoning equestrianism hawking archery and shooting but can also extend to various surface water sports such as river trekking angling rowing paddling rafting and boating yachting A hunt leaving Powderham Castle England in 2005 Field sports are considered nostalgic pastimes especially among country folk For example participants of field sports such as riding and fox hunting in the United Kingdom frequently wear traditional attires British country clothing to imitate landed gentries and aristocrats of the 19th century English countryside Contents 1 Types 2 Environmental issues 3 See also 4 ReferencesTypes editHiking backpacking and camping Cross country trail running and mountain biking Hillwalking mountaineering canyoning and caving Rock climbing scrambling rappelling and tree climbing Equestrianism horse racing polo show jumping dressage etc Falconry Sport hunting trophy hunting safari big game hunting fowling Bowhunting Sport fishing angling bowfishing spearfishing big game fishing Shooting sport Field shooting metallic silhouette long range field target etc Clay pigeon Plinking Meat shooting Rook shooting Field archery Rowing sculling paddling canoeing kayaking rafting punting and paddleboardingEnvironmental issues editMain articles Biological integrity and human wildlife conflict See also Human impact on the environment Field sports by definition involve activities away from typical human settlements which implies entering into natural areas usually devoid of human presence Such encroachments can potentially cause ecological disturbances to the wild faunae and florae including environmental contamination by littered wastes especially non degradable plastic waste wildfire risk from campfires and cigarette butts disruption of groundcovers and topsoil due to trail making and camping damages to rocks by anchors used for aid climbing irresponsible luring and feeding of wild animals and light and sound pollution that can frequently trigger startle responses and territorial behaviors leading to animal attacks nest abandonment habitat fragmentation and even habitat loss Some field sports especially hunting and fishing involve the catching and or killing of wild animals collectively referred as game for meat for removing species in conflict with humans often as volunteered assistance to farmers and landowners or simply for personal leisure and trophy i e sport hunting or sporting 2 Opponents to such sports consider them controversial and even immoral on grounds of animal cruelty regarded as blood sports using wildlife animal welfare of the working animals such as horse and hunting dogs and environmental protection concerns for habitat conservation overexploitation and poaching especially those involving commercial incentives such as safari big game hunting See also editCountryside Alliance The Field magazine Field amp Stream magazineReferences edit field sports Oxford Dictionaries Retrieved 25 September 2014 field sports Macmillan Dictionary Retrieved 25 September 2014 nbsp This sports related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This animal rights related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Field sports amp oldid 1148670723, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
