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Sloth bear attacks: regional differences and safety messaging
Scientific Reports, 2022 Sloth bears behave aggressively toward humans when threatened and are among the most dangerous wildlife in India. Safety messaging for those who live in sloth bear country must be accurate to be effective, and messaging may need to be modified to account
Thomas R. Sharp +3 more
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A Call for Proactive Human–Bear Conflict Mitigation
Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2018 This commentary serves as a call to action for the creation of proactive mitigation efforts to lessen human–bear conflict based on comprehensive predictive data models.
Annabella R. Helman
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Predicting human-carnivore conflict at the urban-wildland interface
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020 A major threat to mammalian carnivores is death due to human conflict, including carnivore use of anthropogenic food sources, predation of livestock, or car accidents.
Joanna Klees van Bommel +4 more
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Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2023 In North America, bear viewing is becoming increasingly popular with visitors to parks and protected areas. In the face of heightened visitation pressures in parks, the phenomena of roadside bear viewing poses risks to humans and wildlife.
Annie Pumphrey, Zoë A. Meletis
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From Conflict to Conviviality? Transforming Human–Bear Relations in Bulgaria
Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2021 The question of how to transform human–wildlife relations from conflict to coexistence, rather than merely mitigating conflicts, has become a central focus of research and practice.
Svetoslava Toncheva, Robert Fletcher
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An analysis of human–black bear conflict in Utah
Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017 Conflict between black bears (Ursus americanus) and humans has occurred in Utah, but the records are largely incomplete. To document these events, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources initiated a black bear sightings and encounters database in 2003 ...
Julie Ann Miller +4 more
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Trans Fatty Acids Provide Evidence of Anthropogenic Feeding by Black Bears
Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017 Bears (Ursus spp.) that become conditioned to anthropogenic food sources pose a risk to human safety and generally need to be relocated, rehabilitated, or destroyed.
Gregory W. Thiemann +3 more
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Predictors of brown bear predation events on livestock in the Romanian Carpathians
Conservation Science and Practice, 2023 Livestock depredation by brown bears is one of the main source of human–wildlife conflict in rural Eastern Europe. Thus, identifying environmental and anthropogenic drivers of human–bear conflict, and developing spatial predictions for predation ...
Mihai I. Pop +6 more
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From human invaders to problem bears: A media content analysis of grizzly bear conservation
Conservation Science and Practice, 2020 Across their North American range, grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) occupy a special place in human imagination, as icons of nature's rugged and raw power, to representations of safety risks and economic costs of living with carnivores.
Courtney Hughes +5 more
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Navigating human-sloth bear encounters and attacks in Nepal’s unprotected forests
Environmental ChallengesHuman-sloth bear conflict is a recurring issue in multi-use forest landscapes outside protected areas (PAs). In Nepal’s southern region, sloth bears are a major contributor to human-wildlife conflict, yet comprehensive information to inform conflict ...
Manoj Pokharel +3 more
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