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Evaluating the spatial intensity and demographic impacts of wire-snare bush-meat poaching on large carnivores

open access: yesBiological Conservation, 2020
The bush-meat poaching crisis is a significant threat to biodiversity in tropical forest and savannah biomes, however its impacts on wild animal populations are often difficult to quantify across large spatial scales.
A. Loveridge   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How People Should Respond When Encountering a Large Carnivore: Opinions of Wildlife Professionals

open access: yesHuman-Wildlife Interactions, 2017
We conducted telephone surveys of wildlife professionals who work with large carnivores to ask their opinions about how people should respond to avoid being injured when confronted by a black bear (Ursus americana), grizzly bear (Ursus arctos), mountain ...
Dylan E. Brown, Michael R. Conover
doaj   +1 more source

Range contractions of the world's large carnivores

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2017
The majority of the world's terrestrial large carnivores have undergone substantial range contractions and many of these species are currently threatened with extinction.
C. Wolf, W. Ripple
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Examining human–carnivore interactions using a socio-ecological framework: sympatric wild canids in India as a case study [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2019
Many carnivores inhabit human-dominated landscapes outside protected reserves. Spatially explicit assessments of carnivore distributions and livestock depredation patterns in human-use landscapes are crucial for minimizing negative interactions and ...
Arjun Srivathsa   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dracula’s ménagerie: A multispecies occupancy analysis of lynx, wildcat, and wolf in the Romanian Carpathians

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2022
The recovery of terrestrial carnivores in Europe is a conservation success story. Initiatives focused on restoring top predators require information on how resident species may interact with the re‐introduced species as their interactions have the ...
Marissa A. Dyck   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Co-Adaptation Is Key to Coexisting with Large Carnivores.

open access: yesTrends in Ecology & Evolution, 2016
There is a pressing need to integrate large carnivore species into multi-use landscapes outside protected areas. However, an unclear understanding of coexistence hinders the realization of this goal.
N. Carter, J. Linnell
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Carnivores and Communities: A Case Study of Human-Carnivore Conflict Mitigation in Southwestern Alberta

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Facilitating long-term coexistence between people and large carnivores is a persistent, global conservation challenge. Evidence-based decisions to help design and implement programs that promote coexistence between people and carnivores are required ...
Andrea T. Morehouse   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Applying Participatory Processes to Address Conflicts Over the Conservation of Large Carnivores: Understanding Conditions for Successful Management

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Social conflicts over large carnivores are becoming more frequent following the general recovery of large carnivores in human shaped landscapes in Europe. To manage conflicts over large carnivores a detailed knowledge is necessary on the social, economic,
V. Salvatori   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Limited evidence on the effectiveness of interventions to reduce livestock predation by large carnivores

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2017
Successful coexistence between large carnivores and humans is conditional upon effective mitigation of the impact of these species on humans, such as through livestock depredation.
Ann Eklund   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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