Wolf-livestock conflict and the effects of wolf management

2018 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 711-722 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas. J. DeCesare ◽  
Seth M. Wilson ◽  
Elizabeth H. Bradley ◽  
Justin A. Gude ◽  
Robert M. Inman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wolf Management

scholarly journals Controversial approach to wolf management in the Czech Republic

2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (No. 1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Jana Lososová ◽  
Jindřiška Kouřilová ◽  
Nikola Soukupová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Population Density ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Management Programme ◽  
Wolf Population ◽  
Public Funds ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Wolf Management ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Relationship

Expansion of the wolf in the Czech Republic results in an increasing conflict between nature conservationists and other landscape users. In March 2020, the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic issued the "Wolf Management Programme". The document provoked negative reactions from organisations of farmers, breeders, and hunters. The article deals with the key issues triggered by the conflict and the attitudes of actors involved. We want to clarify to what extent the solutions designed by individual parties help to mitigate the conflict and how the financial demands related to this issue have been evolving. The problem may seem marginal in the Czech Republic, but the wolf population density in some regions may already be close to its bearable maximum. Key problems are the identification of specific target numbers of wolves, the absence of zoning as a future option, and clear rules for dealing with direct encounters of wolves with humans. The benefit of wolf management is primarily the sum of preventive measures it aims to address, but the relationship with other main actors and the area of education and promotion is debatable as it represents a further increase in the absorption of public funds without guarantees of effectiveness.

scholarly journals Does the Cascade Wolf Survive?

Oryx ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-190
Author(s):  
Robert Pisano
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Domestic Dogs ◽  
Coastal Forests ◽  
Complete Protection ◽  
Wolf Management ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Coastal British Columbia ◽  
Special Protection

The Cascade wolf Cants lupus fuscus is extinct in the USA. But it may survive in Canada, in the coastal forests of British Columbia, the northernmost part of its original range. But British Columbia gives this highly endangered subspecies no special protection. Over-hunting and hybridisation with neighbouring wolf subspecies and domestic dogs are the chief threats. The author reviews wolf management in coastal British Columbia and suggests changes that would improve the Cascade wolf's prospects, including complete protection of all wolves on wilderness islands where it may survive.

How Minnesota wolf hunter and trapper attitudes and risk- and benefit-based beliefs predict wolf management preferences

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 552-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan A. Schroeder ◽  
David C. Fulton ◽  
Louis Cornicelli ◽  
Jeremy T. Bruskotter
Keyword(s):  
Wolf Management ◽  
Risk And Benefit ◽  
Management Preferences

Wolf Conservation and Removal of Wolves in Germany – Status quo and Prospects

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 262-278
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Köck
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Wolf Population ◽  
Species Protection ◽  
Federal States ◽  
Human Safety ◽  
Favourable Conservation Status ◽  
Wolf Management

In Germany, the wolf population develops in a very dynamic manner. As a result, politics and society increasingly worry about human safety and whether the return of the wolf can be kept compatible with pasture grazing. Plans by the federal states (Länder) for wolf management serve both to prepare society for the return of wolves and to deal with likely emerging conflicts. In exceptional cases, conflict management may include the ‘removal’ of wolves, i.e. the killing of individual ‘problem-wolves’. This paper analyses the legal prerequisites for the removal of wolves; it also addresses the conditions that must be met for wolf management to be placed under a new legal framework – beyond the exemption regime under species protection law. In this context, the ‘favourable conservation status’ of wolves plays a key role.

The Role of Affect in Public Support and Opposition to Wolf Management

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina M. Slagle ◽  
Jeremy T. Bruskotter ◽  
Robyn S. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Public Support ◽  
Wolf Management

scholarly journals Changes in attitudes toward wolves before and after an inaugural public hunting and trapping season: early evidence from Wisconsin's wolf range

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMIE HOGBERG ◽  
ADRIAN TREVES ◽  
BRET SHAW ◽  
LISA NAUGHTON-TREVES
Keyword(s):  
Canis Lupus ◽  
Negative Trend ◽  
Public Acceptance ◽  
Behavioural Intentions ◽  
Management Interventions ◽  
Early Evidence ◽  
Wolf Management ◽  
Before And After ◽  
One Year ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes

SUMMARYIn many areas, wildlife managers are turning to hunting programmes to increase public acceptance of predators. This study examines attitudes measured before and after a hunting and trapping season (wolf hunt) in Wisconsin (WI), USA, and casts some doubt on whether such programmes actually promote public acceptance. In Wisconsin, attitudes toward wolves (Canis lupus) were recorded before and after the inaugural regulated wolf hunt. Measuring longitudinal changes is particularly important in assessing management interventions. The attitudes of 736 previous respondents were resampled in 2013. Changes in individual responses to statements about emotions, behavioural intentions, beliefs, and attitudes toward wolves and wolf management between 2009 and 2013 were assessed using a nine-item scaled variable called ‘tolerance’. Although the majority (66%) of wolf range respondents approved of the decision to hold the hunt, the results indicate a negative trend in attitudes toward wolves among male respondents and hunters living in wolf range, both before and after the state's first legal hunt, suggesting that hunting was not associated with an increase in tolerance for the species after one year. Tolerance levels among female respondents remained stable throughout the study period.

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