Posts Tagged: predator control
Removing wolves did not reliably prevent domestic animal losses
August 31, 2026
Humans usually try to kill wild animals that they perceive as threats. However, many scientific findings have raised doubts that killing solves wildlife damage to property. With scant, low-quality data, uncertainty persists. We reviewed recent studies of killing gray wolves … read more
Posted in Conflicts, Resources | Tagged carnivores, conflict and coexistence, consensus reviews, livestock, non-randomized BACI, predator control, spatiotemporal recurrence and survival models
Grey wolves (Canis lupus) shift selection of anthropogenic landscape features following predator control in the Nearctic boreal forest
October 6, 2024
Conserving endangered species sometimes involves killing their predators. In the case of Nearctic wolves (Canis lupus), rarely are lethal control measures examined for ancillary effects on predator behaviour or community responses in a before-after design. We examined wolf relative abundance … read more
Posted in Caribou, Predator/Prey Relationships | Tagged boreal forest, Camera trapping, Conservation actions, endangered species, Landscape change, predator control, species distribution models, wildlife management
Efficacy of Killing Large Carnivores to Enhance Moose Harvests: New Insights from a Long-Term View
November 30, 2022
We analyzed harvest data to test hypotheses that nearly 4 decades of effort to reduce abundance of brown bears (Ursus arctos), black bears (U. americanus) and gray wolves (Canis lupis) in an 60,542 km2 area in south-central Alaska (Game Management … read more
Posted in Hunting Wolves, Resources | Tagged alaska, black bear, brown bear, case history, intensive management, moose, predator control, wolves
