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Broad support for lethal control of wild deer among subscribers of nature organisations in England and Wales

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Wild deer populations are increasing across the northern hemisphere, posing challenges to the environment and people. Deer impacts can be managed using lethal and non‐lethal practices, but research suggests lethal control receives mixed support.
Elena Cini   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Camera‐traps and the city: Spatiotemporal adaptations of wildlife to urban environments

open access: yesEcological Solutions and Evidence
Urbanisation significantly reshapes ecosystems, affecting biodiversity and profoundly altering wildlife behaviour. Nonetheless, our understanding of the environmental drivers of behavioural changes, as well as the concurrent effects upon interspecific ...
Emiliano Mori   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Why Wildlife in an Urban Society? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Editor’s Note: This paper is included in lieu of a Keynote Address. Authored by the founder of the Vertebrate Pest Conference, it was originally published in Wildlife in an Urbanizing Environment, a monograph compiled from papers presented at a symposium held in Springfield, MA in November 1973, sponsored by the Cooperative Extension Service of the ...
openaire  

Combined storytelling and mapping approaches for increasing community engagement with woodland creation and expansion projects

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Forests and woodlands are important for biodiversity, climate change mitigation and the provision of services including recreation, timber and non‐timber forest products. Land use policies currently aim to increase forest cover while also maximising the benefits of forests for people and improving community engagement with the process of ...
Sarah Greenwood   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digital surveillance of animals and nature recovery

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Digital surveillance technologies (DSTs) are widely applied in nature recovery for their potential to generate novel data on species and ecosystems through digital tracking, automation (e.g. from hazardous locations) and from newly recruited citizen scientists.
William M. Adams
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of childhood experience with nature on tolerance of urban residents toward hornets and wild boars in Japan.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
Urban biodiversity conservation often aims to promote the quality of life for urban residents by providing ecosystem services as well as habitats for diverse wildlife.
Tetsuro Hosaka   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Urbanized wildlife

open access: yes, 1974
Man, with his continual movement and his need to construct, has devastated the wilderness. Provided with man's year-round lush vegetation, his sheltered and protected area, wildlife has adapted to urbanization. Urbanized wildlife is not always tolerated by man. Management of vertebrate pests in urban areas is specialized.
openaire   +1 more source

Technical wildness: Modernity, romanticism, and the technocratic turn in Scottish rewilding

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Technical wildness is a new and increasingly influential culture of nature. This paper marks its emergence in Scotland in the early 2020s. Focusing on Scotland's rapidly evolving land management sector, the paper traces how private rewilding companies position science‐led land management and natural capital markets as the most effective ...
Theo Stanley
wiley   +1 more source

Digital fire technologies and community networks: Cultivating just sociotechnical practices for living with planetary change

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Fires are expanding in frequency and intensity worldwide due to climate change and land‐use transformations. At the same time, fire often plays a regenerative role in ecosystems. Traditional and cultural practices incorporate fire use for landscape management and landscape renewal. In this complex matrix of fire ecologies, digital technologies
Jennifer Gabrys   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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