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Cattle ranchers' attitudes to conflicts with jaguar in the Pantanal of Brazil
PaperZimmermann, Walpole, and Leader-Williams surveyed cattle ranchers across the Brazilian Pantanal to understand attitudes toward jaguars and pumas amid livestock depredation. They found that ranchers fr…
Alexandra Zimmermann, Matthew J. Walpole, Nigel Leader-Williams · Oryx · 2005
Cougar attacks on humans in the United States and Canada
PaperBeier compiled and analysed records of cougar (puma) attacks on people across the United States and Canada through the twentieth century, providing the first systematic quantification of a rare but fe…
Paul Beier · Wildlife Society Bulletin · 1991
Human-carnivore conflict and perspectives on carnivore management worldwide
ReviewTreves and Karanth reviewed human-carnivore conflict and management approaches across continents, synthesising how societies have responded to large predators from persecution to protection. They exam…
Adrian Treves, K. Ullas Karanth · Conservation Biology · 2003
Human-felid conflict: a review of patterns and priorities worldwide
ReviewInskip and Zimmermann produced a comprehensive global review of conflict between people and wild cats, synthesising the geography, drivers, and severity of conflict across all felid species. They iden…
Chloe Inskip, Alexandra Zimmermann · Oryx · 2009
Research overview: adaptive management of human-carnivore conflict
OverviewThis overview reviews the application of adaptive management, structured learning through iterative intervention, monitoring, and adjustment, to human-big cat conflict. It synthesises arguments that b…
Research overview: corridors, connectivity, and conflict at movement bottlenecks
OverviewThis overview synthesises how habitat corridors and connectivity shape big-cat conflict, focusing on the tension between maintaining predator movement and the conflict that arises where corridors pass…
Research overview: defining coexistence in human-carnivore systems
OverviewThis overview synthesises scholarship that seeks to define coexistence as a positive conservation goal distinct from the mere absence of conflict. It reviews frameworks conceptualising coexistence as…
Research overview: forecasting predator attacks and applying risk maps in practice
OverviewThis overview examines research on forecasting big-cat attacks and translating risk maps into operational decisions, bridging prediction and action. It synthesises work modelling environmental and beh…
Research overview: future directions in human-big cat coexistence research
OverviewThis overview synthesises emerging priorities and frontiers in human-big cat conflict and coexistence research. It reviews calls for more rigorous impact evaluation, greater integration of social scie…
Research overview: guardian donkeys and llamas as alternative livestock protectors
OverviewThis overview reviews the use of guardian animals other than dogs, notably donkeys and llamas, to deter big cats and other predators from livestock herds. It synthesises evidence that aggressive donke…
Research overview: habituation and the limits of sensory deterrents for big cats
OverviewThis overview synthesises evidence on why deterrents, lights, sirens, scent, and visual scarecrows, often lose effectiveness as predators habituate. It examines the behavioural ecology of neophobia an…
Research overview: identifying and managing problem individuals among big cats
OverviewThis overview synthesises research on the concept of problem individuals, specific big cats responsible for repeated attacks on livestock or people, and how to identify and manage them. It reviews evi…
Research overview: jaguar and puma coexistence with smallholders in Mesoamerica
OverviewThis overview reviews human-felid conflict involving both jaguars and pumas across smallholder and indigenous landscapes of Central America, where the two cats overlap and complicate attribution of li…
Research overview: landscape and husbandry predictors of livestock depredation
OverviewThis overview synthesises studies identifying which landscape and management variables predict where big cats kill livestock, a recurring quantitative question across conflict research. It reviews con…
Research overview: landscape of fear concepts applied to livestock and predators
OverviewThis overview examines how the ecological concept of the landscape of fear, the spatial distribution of perceived predation risk, has been applied to human-carnivore conflict. It synthesises work expl…
Research overview: livestock-guarding dogs as a tool against carnivore depredation
OverviewThis overview surveys the global evidence on livestock-guarding dogs (LGDs), breeds such as Anatolian shepherds, Kangals, and Maremmas, bonded to herds to deter predators through presence, barking, an…
Research overview: media framing of big-cat attacks and its conservation effects
OverviewThis overview synthesises research on how news and social media portray big-cat attacks and conflict, and how that framing shapes public attitudes, fear, and policy. It reviews studies showing that se…
Research overview: natural prey depletion and jaguar-puma livestock depredation
OverviewThis overview synthesises evidence linking the depletion of natural prey, peccaries, deer, capybara, guanaco, to increased jaguar and puma depredation on livestock across the Americas. It reviews stud…
Research overview: night penning, fladry, and other nonlethal deterrents for pumas
OverviewThis overview synthesises evidence on nonlethal tools, secure night penning, fladry (flagged lines), turbo-fladry, motion-activated lights and sound, and guard animals, used to protect livestock from…
Research overview: perceived versus actual losses in jaguar and puma conflict
OverviewThis overview synthesises studies across Latin America comparing ranchers' perceived livestock losses to jaguars and pumas with verified depredation, a recurring theme in big-cat conflict. It reviews…
Research overview: predictive risk maps for human-carnivore conflict
OverviewThis overview reviews the use of statistical and machine-learning models to build predictive risk maps that forecast where big-cat conflict is likely, rather than only describing past incidents. It sy…
Research overview: puma attack risk and public risk communication
OverviewThis overview synthesises research on the rare but high-profile risk of puma attacks on people in North America and how agencies communicate that risk. It reviews analyses of attack circumstances, the…
Research overview: puma livestock depredation and lethal-removal permits in the western US
OverviewThis overview synthesises research on puma predation on livestock, sheep, calves, goats, hobby-farm animals, across the western United States, and the depredation-permit systems that authorise killing…
Research overview: puma-sheep conflict on Patagonian rangelands
OverviewThis overview reviews human-puma conflict across the sheep-ranching landscapes of Argentine and Chilean Patagonia, where pumas prey on sheep and guanaco and ranchers have long persecuted them. It synt…
Research overview: pumas, hobby farms, and the exurban interface
OverviewThis overview examines puma conflict at the expanding exurban interface in the western Americas, where small hobby farms and acreages place horses, llamas, goats, and pets within reach of pumas using…
Research overview: risk perception versus actual risk in big-cat conflict
OverviewThis overview examines the persistent gap between perceived and actual risk in human-big cat conflict, a theme cutting across lion, tiger, leopard, puma, and jaguar systems. It synthesises research sh…
Research overview: roads, connectivity, and puma persistence near cities
OverviewThis overview reviews research on how roads and urbanisation fragment puma populations and elevate human-puma conflict through roadkill, genetic isolation, and forced movement near people. It synthesi…
Research overview: spatial zoning and land-use planning for carnivore coexistence
OverviewThis overview reviews how spatial zoning, separating core predator habitat, buffer zones, and human-use areas, and broader land-use planning can structure coexistence with big cats. It synthesises app…
Research overview: sport hunting, social disruption, and puma conflict
OverviewThis overview synthesises the contested evidence on whether sport hunting of pumas reduces or paradoxically increases conflict with people and livestock. It reviews studies suggesting that heavy hunti…
Research overview: the conflict-to-coexistence continuum and levels of intervention
OverviewThis overview reviews frameworks that array human-carnivore relationships along a continuum from acute conflict through coexistence to active stewardship, and that match interventions to a situation's…