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Media Framing of Financial Mechanisms for Resolving Human–Predator Conflict in Namibia [PDF]
, 2015 The decline in carnivore populations is largely exacerbated by lethal methods used to reduce livestock depredation. Financial mechanisms are designed to limit lethal control by reducing the cost of depredation. The media can affect how the general public
Rust, Niki
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Invasive Wild pigs as primary nest predators for Wild turkeys [PDF]
, 2020 Depredation of wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) nests is a leading cause of reduced recruitment for the recovering and iconic game species. invasive wild pigs (Sus scrofa) are known to depredate nests, and have been expanding throughout the distributed ...
Hewitt, David G. +4 more
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A Device to Record the Specific Time an Artificial Nest is Depredated
Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017 We designed a timing device that records the calendar date and time of a depredation event on an artificial nest. The clock was simple to construct and successful in field trials, with only 6% failure (3 of 48 clocks).
Michael R. Conover, Jennifer S. Borgo
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Using models of social transmission to examine the spread of longline depredation behavior among sperm whales in the Gulf of Alaska. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Fishing, farming and ranching provide opportunities for predators to prey on resources concentrated by humans, a behavior termed depredation. In the Gulf of Alaska, observations of sperm whales depredating on fish caught on demersal longline gear dates ...
Zachary A Schakner +4 more
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Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2023 Overfishing, habitat degradation, and climate change have caused declines in shark populations throughout the world’s oceans. However, in the United States Gulf of Mexico (GoM), populations of several coastal shark species are starting to stabilize ...
Evan Gerald Prasky +18 more
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Elephants in the neighborhood: patterns of crop-raiding by Asian elephants within a fragmented landscape of Eastern India [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Loss of forest cover, rise in human populations and fragmentation of habitats leads to decline in biodiversity and extinction of large mammals globally.
Dipanjan Naha +4 more
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Modeling the relationship between wolf control and cattle depredation.
PLoS ONE, 2017 Wolf control to reduce cattle depredation is an important issue to ecology and agriculture in the United States. Two recent papers use the same dataset having wolf population characteristics and cattle depredation, but come to opposing conclusions ...
Lyudmyla Kompaniyets, Marc A Evans
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Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2020 Human–wildlife conflicts occur when wildlife has an adverse effect on human activities (e.g., predation of livestock, crop raiding). These conflicts are increasing, particularly in areas surrounding natural protected areas, where villagers engage in ...
Gabriel Can-Hernández +5 more
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The diatoms test in veterinary medicine: a pilot study on cetaceans and sea turtles [PDF]
, 2018 Fishing activities are considered one of the most relevant threats for cetaceans and sea turtles con- servation since these animals are sometimes found dead entangled in fishing gears.
Barbieri, Stefania +11 more
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Land, 2017 During the twenty-first century, large carnivores have increased in human dominated landscapes after being extinct or nearly extinct. This has resulted in increasing numbers of livestock killed by large carnivores.
Weronika Axelsson Linkowski +4 more
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