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Managing conflict between large carnivores and livestock

Overview of attention for article published in Conservation Biology, July 2017
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12 news outlets
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Title
Managing conflict between large carnivores and livestock
Published in
Conservation Biology, July 2017
DOI 10.1111/cobi.12959
Pubmed ID
Authors

Lily M. van Eeden, Mathew S. Crowther, Chris R. Dickman, David W. Macdonald, William J. Ripple, Euan G. Ritchie, Thomas M. Newsome

Abstract

Large carnivores are persecuted globally because they threaten human industries and livelihoods. How this conflict is managed has consequences for the conservation of large carnivores and biodiversity more broadly. Mitigating human-predator conflict should be evidence-based and accommodate people's values while also protecting carnivores. Despite much research into human-large carnivore coexistence strategies, there have been limited attempts to document the success of conflict mitigation strategies on a global scale. We present a meta-analysis of global research on conflict mitigation between large carnivores and humans, focusing on conflicts that arise from the threat that large carnivores pose to livestock industries. Overall, research effort and focus varied between continents, aligning with the different histories and cultures that shaped livestock production and attitudes towards carnivores. Of the studies that met our criteria, livestock guardian animals were most effective at reducing livestock losses, followed by lethal control, although the latter exhibited the widest variation in success and the two were not significantly different. Financial incentives have promoted tolerance in some settings, reducing retaliatory killings. In future, coexistence strategies should be location-specific, incorporating cultural values and environmental conditions, and designed such that return on financial investment can be evaluated. Improved monitoring of mitigation measures is urgently required to promote effective evidence-based policy. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Kenya 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 620 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 95 15%
Researcher 93 15%
Student > Master 87 14%
Student > Bachelor 78 13%
Other 26 4%
Other 83 13%
Unknown 162 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 202 32%
Environmental Science 165 26%
Social Sciences 20 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 12 2%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 7 1%
Other 38 6%
Unknown 180 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 186. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 January 2024.
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#214,962
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Outputs from Conservation Biology
#74
of 4,051 outputs
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#4,534
of 325,821 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Conservation Biology
#3
of 33 outputs
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