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Human-Bear Conflict and Community Perceptions of Risk in the Zanskar Region, Northern India

, 2021
The Himalayan brown bear (Ursus arctos isabellinus) is an endangered subspecies of brown bear (U. a. spp.) and is found throughout the Himalayan region of south and central Asia. We describe the type of and the current level of human–bear conflict (HBC) with Himalayan brown bears in the Zanskar region of northern India and suggest potential mitigation ...
Chavan, Kirti, Watts, Sophie M., Namgail, Tsewang   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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, Randal S. Stahl, Sharon Baruch-Mordo, Stewart W. Breck   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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, Marissa A. Dyck, Silviu Chiriac, Berde Lajos, Szilárd Szabó, Cristian I. Iojă, Viorel D. Popescu   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Retrofitting Dumpsters with Bear Resistant Lids to Reduce Human-Bear Conflict in New Jersey [PDF]

Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference, 2010
Author(s): Makkay, Amanda M.; Burguess, Kelcey I.; Zellner, Andrew S.; Huffman, Jane E. | Abstract: Black bear populations are increasing throughout North America. When areas of black bear population expansion overlap regions of substantial human use, conflict can ensue. Human-bear conflicts can have negative economic, health/safety, and social impacts.
Makkay, Amanda M., Burguess, Kelcey I., Zellner, Andrew S., Huffman, Jane E.   +3 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, Lee Foote, Nicholas T. Yarmey, Christina Hwang, Jessica Thorlakson, Scott Nielsen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Navigating human-sloth bear encounters and attacks in Nepal’s unprotected forests

Environmental Challenges
Human-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, Chandramani Aryal, Bidhan Adhikary, Jeevan Rai   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Polar bear attacks on humans: Implications of a changing climate

Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2017
Understanding causes of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) attacks on humans is critical to ensuring both human safety and polar bear conservation. Although considerable attention has been focused on understanding black (U. americanus) and grizzly (U.
James M. Wilder, Dag Vongraven, Todd Atwood, Bob Hansen, Amalie Jessen, Anatoly Kochnev, Geoff York, Rachel Vallender, Daryll Hedman, Melissa Gibbons   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Are Fertility Preservation Procedures Before Gonadotoxic Therapy and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Feasible and Safe in Very Young Children? A Retrospective Cohort Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Fertility preservation (FP) is increasingly integrated into the care of pediatric patients exposed to gonadotoxic therapy or conditioning for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), yet perioperative data in infants and toddlers remain scarce.
Kerstin Saalabian, Yannick Braun, Till‐Martin Theilen, Anke Barnbrock, Theresa Rohm, Fabienne Hammant, Nicole Sänger, Aynura Abbasova‐Semiz, Jan‐Henning Klusmann, Thomas Klingebiel, Udo Rolle, Peter Bader, Henning C. Fiegel, Andrea Jarisch   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatio-Temporal Patterns and Source-Dispersion Modeling Towards Sloth Bear–Human Conflict Management in Central India

Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2022
The impact of humans on biodiversity, in the form of the spatially extensive occurrence of humans and subsequent habitat degradation, leads to negative interactions between humans and native wildlife.
Sankarshan Chaudhuri, Meghna Bandyopadhyay, Rajasekar Rajaraman, Sankar Kalyanasundaram, Sambandam Sathyakumar, Ramesh Krishnamurthy, Ramesh Krishnamurthy   +6 more
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Prevalence of 21 Physician‐Defined Severe Toxicities Following Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Treatment: Australian Retrospective Cohort Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common pediatric cancer, with an overall survival now surpassing 90% in developed countries. However, treatments are not without adverse effects. In this study, we apply the severe toxicity‐free survival (STFS) framework to determine the prevalence of 21 physician‐defined severe ...
Lane Collier, Brittany Grantham, Camilla Grud Nielsen, Louise Lundgren, Liv Andrés‐Jensen, Kjeld Schmiegelow, Chris Selman, Gareth Ball, Elyse Passmore, David A. Elliott, Rachel Conyers   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source