Posts Tagged: conservation
Carnivore Conservation Needs Evidence-Based Livestock Protection
December 29, 2019
Scientists alone cannot transform policies for implementation. The pursuit of science-based management must be truly interdisciplinary and involve carnivore ecologists, animal husbandry scientists, social scientists, natural resource managers, ethicists, and other scholars and practitioners. Political leaders can also play a … read more
Posted in Conflicts | Tagged based, carnivore, conservation, evidence, livestock, needs, protection
Anthropogenic Food Subsidies Hinder The Ecological Role Of Wolves: Insights For Conservation Of Apex Predators In Human-modified Landscapes
December 3, 2019
In ecologically pristine ecosystems, top-down effects of apex predators play a fundamental role in shaping trophic cascades and structuring ecosystems, but in human-modified landscapes anthropogenic effects may markedly alter the ecological role of predators. In particular, human-provisioned food subsidies represent … read more
Posted in Biology | Tagged anthropogenic, conservation, ecological, hinder, insights, subsidies, wolves
Carnivore Conservation Needs Evidence-Based Livestock Protection
July 3, 2019
Carnivore predation on livestock often leads people to retaliate. Persecution by humans has contributed strongly to global endangerment of carnivores. Preventing livestock losses would help to achieve three goals common to many human societies: preserve nature, protect animal welfare, and … read more
Posted in Non-Lethal Management Tools | Tagged based, carnivore, conservation, evidence, livestock, needs, protection
Livestock Protection Dogs in the 21st Century: Is an Ancient Tool Relevant to Modern Conservation Challenges?
July 3, 2019
Europe and North America share a similar history in the extirpation and subsequent recovery of large carnivore and ungulate species. Both continents face challenges and opportunities for managing human-wildlife conflict at the junction of livestock production and wildlife conservation. Predation … read more
Posted in Non-Lethal Management Tools | Tagged ancient, century, conservation, livestock, modern, protection, relevant
North American Model of Wildlife Conservation: Empowerment and Exclusivity Hinder Advances in Wildlife Conservation
July 3, 2019
We argue that the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (NAM) as currently promoted is an overly narrow construct, used both to explain how North American wildlife conservation developed historically, and as a prescriptive framework for applying a hunting-focused form … read more
Posted in Hunting Wolves | Tagged american, conservation, empowerment, exclusivity, model, north, wildlife
Differentiating Between Regulation and Hunting as Conservation Interventions
July 3, 2019
Protecting biodiversity requires that we correctly identify major threats and effective interventions to abate them (Salafsky & Margoluis 2003; Sutherland et al. 2004). If the scientific community wants the world to heed our warnings of ecosystem collapse (Ripple et al. … read more
Posted in Hunting Wolves | Tagged between, conservation, differentiating, hunting, interventions, regulation
