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Human-Carnivore Conflict and Perspectives on Carnivore Management Worldwide
Adrian Treves,K. Ullas Karanth +1 more
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In this paper, the authors anticipate greater success in modifying the manner and frequency with which the activities of humans and domestic animals intersect with those of carnivores, which should permit carnivore populations to persist for decades despite human population growth and modification of habitat.Abstract:
Carnivore conservation depends on the sociopolitical landscape as much as the biological landscape. Changing political attitudes and views of nature have shifted the goals of carnivore management from those based on fear and narrow economic interests to those based on a better understanding of ecosystem function and adaptive management. In parallel, aesthetic and scientific arguments against lethal control techniques are encouraging the development of nonlethal approaches to carnivore management. We anticipate greater success in modifying the manner and frequency with which the activities of humans and domestic animals intersect with those of carnivores. Success should permit carnivore populations to persist for decades despite human population growth and modification of habitat.read more
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Recovery of large carnivores in Europe’s modern human-dominated landscapes
Guillaume Chapron,Petra Kaczensky,John D. C. Linnell,Manuela von Arx,Djuro Huber,Henrik Andrén,José Vicente López-Bao,José Vicente López-Bao,Michal Adamec,Francisco Álvares,Ole Anders,Linas Balčiauskas,Vaidas Balys,Péter Bedő,Ferdinand Bego,Juan Carlos Blanco,Urs Breitenmoser,Urs Breitenmoser,Henrik Brøseth,Luděk Bufka,Raimonda Bunikyte,Paolo Ciucci,Alexander Dutsov,Thomas Engleder,Christian Fuxjäger,Claudio Groff,Katja Holmala,Bledi Hoxha,Yorgos Iliopoulos,Ovidiu Ionescu,Ovidiu Ionescu,Jasna Jeremić,Klemen Jerina,Gesa Kluth,Felix Knauer,Ilpo Kojola,Ivan Kos,Miha Krofel,Jakub Kubala,Saša Kunovac,Josip Kusak,Miroslav Kutal,Miroslav Kutal,Olof Liberg,Aleksandra Majić,Peep Männil,Ralph Manz,Eric Marboutin,Francesca Marucco,Dime Melovski,Kujtim Mersini,Yorgos Mertzanis,Robert W. Mysłajek,Sabina Nowak,John Odden,Janis Ozolins,Guillermo Palomero,Milan Paunović,Jens Persson,Hubert Potočnik,Pierre-Yves Quenette,Georg Rauer,Ilka Reinhardt,Robin Rigg,Andreas Ryser,Valeria Salvatori,Tomaž Skrbinšek,Aleksandar Stojanov,Jon E. Swenson,László Szemethy,Aleksandër Trajçe,Elena Tsingarska-Sedefcheva,Martin Váňa,Rauno Veeroja,Petter Wabakken,Manfred Wölfl,Sybille Wölfl,Fridolin Zimmermann,Diana Zlatanova,Luigi Boitani +79 more
TL;DR: It is shown that roughly one-third of mainland Europe hosts at least one large carnivore species, with stable or increasing abundance in most cases in 21st-century records, and coexistence alongside humans has become possible, argue the authors.
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Understanding and managing conservation conflicts
Steve Redpath,Juliette Young,Anna Evely,William M. Adams,William J. Sutherland,Andrew Whitehouse,Arjun Amar,Robert A. Lambert,John D. C. Linnell,Allan D. Watt,Ralph J. Gutierrez +10 more
TL;DR: It is hypothesised that conservation outcomes will be less durable when conservationists assert their interests to the detriment of others and the efficacy of alternative conflict management approaches are evaluated.
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Human-felid conflict: a review of patterns and priorities worldwide.
TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-species, systematic review of human-felid conflicts worldwide is presented, using a combination of literature review and geographical information system analyses, providing a quantitative as well as qualitative assessment of patterns and determinants that are known to influence the severity of human felid conflicts and a geographical overview of the occurrence of conflict worldwide.
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From comparative risk assessment to multi-criteria decision analysis and adaptive management: recent developments and applications.
Igor Linkov,F. K. Satterstrom,Gregory A. Kiker,C. Batchelor,Todd S. Bridges,Elizabeth Ferguson +5 more
TL;DR: A basic decision analytic framework is proposed that couples MCDA with adaptive management and its public participation and stakeholder value elicitation methods, and application to a realistic case study based on contaminated sediment management issues in the New York/New Jersey Harbor is demonstrated.
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Co-Managing Human–Wildlife Conflicts: A Review
TL;DR: The need to work beyond protected areas if they are to sustain viable populations of wildlife is acknowledged by conservationists as discussed by the authors. But ambitious plans to extend wildlife corridors beyond protected area mus...
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