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Sixty Degrees of Solutions: Field Techniques for Human–Jaguar Coexistence [PDF]

Animals
The current range of the jaguar (Panthera onca) spans sixty degrees of latitude across eighteen countries in the Western Hemisphere and covers approximately 7,000,000 km2.
John Polisar, Rafael Hoogesteijn, Almira Hoogesteijn, Diego Francis Passos Viana, Skarleth Johana Chinchilla Valdiviezo, Carlos Valderrama Vásquez, Allison Loretta Devlin, Ranni José Arias Herrera, Margaux Babola, Frederick Bauer, Ivonne Cassaigne Guasco, Chia Yu Chang, Daniel Corrales Gutiérrez, J. Antonio De la Torre, Wezddy Del Toro-Orozco, Aline Kotz, Duston Larsen, Nicolás Lodeiro Ocampo, Daniel Monzón, Carmen Angélica Morante Ascanio, Ricardo Daniel Ortiz-Hoyos, Pablo Gastón Perovic, Grasiela Edith de Oliviero Porfirio, María Fernanda Puerto Carrillo, Paul Raad, Thiago Reginato, Yina Paola Serna, Claudio Sillero-Zubiri, Laura Villalba, Armand Ziller   +29 more
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Livestock Depredation by Large Carnivores and Human–Wildlife Conflict in Two Districts of Balochistan Province, Pakistan [PDF]

Animals
Livestock herding is a vital practice in Balochistan, contributing to the economy and culture. The livestock sector is significant in Balochistan, providing 20% of the national stock.
Najeeb Ullah, Irum Basheer, Faiz ur Rehman, Minghai Zhang, Muhammad Tayyab Khan, Sanaullah Khan, Hairong Du   +6 more
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Dynamic primary resources, not just wild prey availability, underpin lion depredation of livestock in a savanna ecosystem [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution
Because it can lead to retaliatory killing, livestock depredation by large carnivores is among the foremost threats to carnivore conservation, and it severely impacts human well‐being worldwide.
Kirby L. Mills, Emily Bennitt, Kai Zhu, Hattie L. A. Bartlam‐Brooks, Tatjana Y. Hubel, Alan M. Wilson, Neil H. Carter, Nathan J. Sanders   +7 more
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Patterns of livestock depredation by tiger (Panthera tigris) and leopard (Panthera pardus) in and around Corbett Tiger Reserve, Uttarakhand, India. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
India with estimated more than 2000 tigers (across 18 states) accounts for more than half of the remaining tigers across its range countries. Long-term conservation requires measures to protect the large carnivores and its prey base beyond the Protect ...
Harendra Singh Bargali, Tanveer Ahmed
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Drivers of wolf depredation reporting and compensation use intentions by livestock producers [PDF]

PeerJ
Background Across the western United States, compensation programs that pay livestock producers for losses seek to mitigate the impact of carnivore depredation on livestock.
Rae Nickerson, Rebecca M. Niemiec, Alexandra Few, Dana Hoag, Paul H. Evangelista, Stewart W. Breck   +5 more
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Livestock Depredation and Its Impact on Farmers in Trongsa District, Bhutan

Indonesian Journal of Social and Environmental Issues, 2023
This survey was conducted in the Trongsa District of Bhutan to assess and document the depredation of livestock by wild predators, time, and seasonality of predation, estimate the economic value of livestock losses in three years (2019-2021), and assess ...
Sonam Dorji Layrab, Kuenzang Rangdrel, Tshering Gyelpo   +2 more
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Food Subsidies Reduce Livestock Depredations by a Recovering Carnivore

Animal Conservation
ABSTRACTFinding methods to reduce livestock depredations is important for conserving recovering populations of large carnivores and mitigating impacts on ranching livelihoods. This is especially true for ensuring the successful reintroductions of endangered carnivores, such as the Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi), an endangered subspecies of gray ...
Matthew Hyde, John K. Oakleaf, Jim deVos, David L. Bergman, Kevin R. Crooks, Julie K. Young, Reza Goljani Amirkhiz, Jennifer K. Frey, Stewart W. Breck   +8 more
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Efficacy of Bomas (Kraals) in Mitigating Livestock Depredation in Maasai Mara Conservancies, Kenya

Conservation, 2023
Livestock depredation is a major conservation challenge globally, causing significant economic losses to pastoralists and threatening large carnivore species outside protected areas.
Elizabeth Wakoli, Dorothy Masiga Syallow, Evans Sitati, Paul W. Webala, Hellen Ipara, Tabitha Finch   +5 more
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Planning for wolf-livestock coexistence: landscape context predicts livestock depredation risk in agricultural landscapes

animal, 2023
Extensive pastoral livestock systems in Central Europe provide multiple ecosystem services and support biodiversity in agricultural landscapes but their viability is challenged by livestock depredation (LD) associated with the recovery of wolf populations.
Hannes J. König, Christian Kiffner, Katrin Kuhls, Sandra Uthes, Verena Harms, Ralf Wieland   +5 more
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Blue sheep strongly affect snow leopard relative abundance but not livestock depredation in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2022
Large carnivores play key roles in their ecosystems, but their protection is a major challenge in biodiversity conservation due to conflicts with human interests. The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is the top predator of Asian high-altitude landscapes and
Marc Filla, Rinzin Phunjok Lama, Tashi Rapte Ghale, Tim Filla, Marco Heurich, Matthias Waltert, Igor Khorozyan   +6 more
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