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Research overview: the efficacy and ethics of translocating conflict big cats
OverviewThis overview synthesises the contested evidence on translocating conflict big cats, capturing and releasing them elsewhere, as a management response. It reviews studies, prominently from Indian leopa…
Research overview: the human-carnivore conflict mitigation toolbox
OverviewThis overview synthesises the full toolbox of measures used to mitigate big-cat conflict, organising them into prevention (husbandry, fortified enclosures, guard animals, deterrents, fencing, zoning),…
Research overview: tourism benefits and their effect on tolerance for big cats
OverviewThis overview synthesises research on whether wildlife-tourism revenue increases local tolerance for big cats by offsetting conflict costs. It reviews cases from jaguar tourism in the Pantanal, lion t…
Research overview: urban pumas, P-22, and coexistence in the Los Angeles area
OverviewThis overview examines research on pumas persisting in and around the urbanised landscapes of southern California, epitomised by P-22, the mountain lion that lived for years in Los Angeles's Griffith…
Research overview: water buffalo and anti-predation husbandry against jaguars
OverviewThis overview reviews husbandry interventions promoted to reduce jaguar and puma depredation on cattle in the Venezuelan llanos and elsewhere, including the use of water buffalo, which form defensive…
Research overview: welfare and wildlife impacts of livestock-guarding dogs
OverviewThis overview examines the downsides and trade-offs of deploying livestock-guarding dogs against big cats, balancing their depredation-reducing benefits. It synthesises research on dog welfare, exposu…
Research overview: wildlife value orientations and attitudes toward big cats
OverviewThis overview synthesises social-psychological research on how wildlife value orientations, broad belief systems ranging from domination to mutualism, shape attitudes toward large carnivores and toler…
Tolerance for predatory wildlife
PaperTreves and Bruskotter examined the psychology and policy of human tolerance for large predators, arguing that tolerance, the willingness to coexist with carnivores, is the decisive factor in their con…
Adrian Treves, Jeremy T. Bruskotter · Science · 2014
Wildlife stakeholder acceptance capacity for cougars in Montana
PaperRiley and Decker introduced and applied the concept of wildlife stakeholder acceptance capacity (WSAC) to cougars in Montana, measuring the maximum cougar population level that residents would tolerat…
Shawn J. Riley, Daniel J. Decker · Wildlife Society Bulletin · 2000