Conservation Performance Payments for Carnivore Conservation in Sweden

Zabel, Astrid; Holm‐Müller, Karin

doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.00898.x

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“…The Swedish conservation performance payment system has been instrumental in the recovery of wolverines in Sweden, by providing protection for adult female wolverines through a combination of direct monetary value and indirect protection by monitoring denning activities (Persson et al 2015). The payment system for lynx and brown bears is not linked to denning females; lynx are paid per family group, based on tracks observed in the winter following reproductive events, whereas payment for bears is based on occurrence, regardless of density and reproduction (Zabel & Holm-Muller 2008). The greater sex differences in risk of illegal mortality for wolverines than lynx or brown bears thus suggest that there is a link between payment system and risk of illegal mortality, with a lesser inclination to kill individuals that the payment system makes most "profitable."…”

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“…In northern Sweden, the main large prey of large carnivores is semidomestic reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) (i.e., private property), which has created a conflict between large carnivore conservation and the indigenous Sámi reindeer husbandry (Swenson & Andrén 2005;Mattisson et al 2011;Hobbs et al 2012). To mitigate the economic impacts and ensure carnivore persistence, Sweden implemented a conservation performance payment system for large carnivores, combined with intensive population monitoring (Zabel & Holm-Muller 2008;Persson et al 2015).…”

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National Parks in Northern Sweden as Refuges for Illegal Killing of Large Carnivores

Rauset

Andrén

Swenson

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Large protected areas are often considered to be as important as population size in reducing extinction risk for large carnivores. However, the effectiveness of protected areas for large carnivore survival has rarely been tested where surrounding areas also provide suitable habitats. Using individual-based longterm data, we here show that three species of large carnivores all suffered higher risk of illegal killing inside three large national parks than in surrounding unprotected areas in northern Sweden. We suggest that this illegal killing is the result of low enforcement and public presence in these remote parks, which results in a low probability for poachers to be discovered. Our results demonstrate that size of protected areas alone may be a poor predictor of their conservation value for large carnivores. We warn against passive national park management and advocate considering the ecological and socioeconomic context present inside as well as outside protected areas.

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National Parks in Northern Sweden as Refuges for Illegal Killing of Large Carnivores

Rauset

Andrén

Swenson

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“…It is each village's responsibility to distribute the performance payment in a way that will increase the utility for as many village members as possible (Zabel and Holm-Müller, 2008).…”

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Performance payments: A new strategy to conserve large carnivores in the tropics?

Zabel

Engel

2010

Ecological Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Biodiversity, including wildlife, is globally decreasing at alarming rates. This development has evoked calls for innovative conservation policies. In the present paper we explore the novel conservation performance payment approach which for wildlife-livestock conflicts, so far, has only been implemented in Sweden. The contribution of the paper is twofold. A structural framework of performance payments' design is developed and an empirical assessment of the approach to tiger-livestock conflicts at Bandhavgarh National Park in India, an example where conservation needs compete with humans' increasing demand for land and resources, is presented. The framework focuses on issues of scheme design such as identifying performance indicators, targeting, payment amount and timing, considerations on making payments to groups vs. individuals, scheme duration, and inadvertent side effects. The assessment of the applicability of the performance payment approach to tiger (Panthera tigris) conservation is based on a high-profile policy workshop, an interview with the park management, and 305 Terms of use: Documents inhousehold-level interviews conducted in 20 villages in the buffer zone of the park.2

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“…In recent decades, some financial incentive schemes have led to positive results for both people and carnivores (Mishra, Allen, Carthy, et al, 2003;Zabel & Holm-Muller, 2008) -although their use has been met with some criticism (Dickman, Macdonald, & Macdonald, 2011;Hazzah et al, 2014). What has become clear is that there is no "silver bullet" to fixing this problem and rather each conservation situation requires a unique approach tailored to meet the contextspecific socio-ecological conditions (Hoare, 2015).…”

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Understanding the human dimensions of coexistence between carnivores and people: A case study in Namibia

Rust¹

2018

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Many carnivore populations were in decline throughout much of the 20 th century, but due to recent conservation policies, their numbers are stabilising or even increasing in some areas of the world. This, compounded with human population growth, has caused increased livestock depredation by carnivores, which threatens farmer livelihoods, particularly those in developing countries such as Namibia. How to resolve this so-called "conflict" between carnivores and livestock farmers remains challenging, in part because some mitigation strategies have proven somewhat ineffective or unacceptable. By using a case-study approach on the commercial farmlands of northcentral Namibia, I aimed to understand the complexity of the human dimensions affecting coexistence between carnivores and people in an unprotected working landscape. Specifically, my objectives were to 1) develop a participatory decisionmaking exercise to analyse the views of stakeholders on how they would like carnivores to be managed in unprotected lands, 2) understand how the media framed financial incentives to improve human-carnivore coexistence, and 3) determine if there were any underlying social, economic or political causes of negative human-carnivore interactions on commercial livestock farms.To answer objective 1, I developed a new decision-making exercise that combined Q-methodology and the Delphi technique to determine whether a diverse group of stakeholders could agree on how to manage carnivores on commercial farmland. A strong agreement was reached by participants: providing conservation education and training on livestock husbandry were acceptable and effective ways to improve coexistence with carnivores. This new also method highlighted areas of disagreement between stakeholders and showed that there were two different narratives on how carnivores should be managed. This method could be used by policy makers to help with participatory decision-making for resolving other conservation conflicts.To answer objective 2, I undertook content analysis of national newspapers to determine how the media framed articles on financial incentives to mitigate this conservation conflict. The most common (30%) financial incentive discussed was compensation -many (61%) of these articles framed compensation positively. Niki Rust © 2015However, upon categorising these articles into those where respondents were enrolled in compensation schemes compared with those who were not, a clear pattern emerged: articles were more likely (89%) to be framed ambivalently or negatively when respondents had experience of this financial incentive compared with respondents that did not. These results can help conservationists plan more effective communication interventions and anticipate issues that can affect the success of mitigation strategies.To answer objective 3, I undertook eight months of participant observation on livestock farms and interviewed 69 respondents and found that reported livestock depredation was associated with increased instances of poaching of wildl...

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Conservation Performance Payments for Carnivore Conservation in Sweden

Cited by 195 publications

References 16 publications

National Parks in Northern Sweden as Refuges for Illegal Killing of Large Carnivores

National Parks in Northern Sweden as Refuges for Illegal Killing of Large Carnivores

Performance payments: A new strategy to conserve large carnivores in the tropics?

Understanding the human dimensions of coexistence between carnivores and people: A case study in Namibia

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