EU Rural Development Policy and the management of conflictual species: The case of large carnivores

Marsden, Katrina; Hovardas, Tasos

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108464

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“…Another promising approach is the new HORIZON Europe Programme (formerly known as "HORIZON 2020"), which seeks to promote new ways of thinking while addressing biodiversity conservation, namely through "transformative changes of the economy and society in both urban and rural areas" (European Commission 2022f). In addition, the EUs Common Agricultural Policy (Heyl et al 2020;European Commission 2022i), which receives a significant part of the total EU budget (around 38% in the previous funding period and around 31% for 2021-2027; European Commission 2022l) could play a major role in improving coexistence with large carnivores (Marsden and Hovardas 2020), if damage prevention measures (e.g. electric fences, specialised guard dogs or secure shelters) funded through its second pillar, the Rural Development Fund (EAFRD), are operationalised across the entire EU and especially if transdisciplinary projects are promoted.…”

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Transdisciplinary deficit in large carnivore conservation funding in Europe

Cristian-Remus¹,

Scheele²,

Rákosy³

et al. 2022

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Achieving coexistence between humans and large carnivores in human-shaped landscapes is a complex challenge. Addressing this challenge requires the revaluation of the approaches academia uses to foster carnivore conservation and human-large carnivore coexistence. In this forum paper, we provide a brief overview of the three archetypical approaches of knowledge generation for large carnivore conservation in human dominated landscapes (disciplinary, interdisciplinary and emerging transdisciplinary approaches) and highlight the need for more explicit consideration of transdisciplinarity in large carnivore conservation funding. We refer to transdisciplinary deficit (TDD) for those situations when the context allows the implementation of transdisciplinarity but research and practice remains disciplinary or interdisciplinary. We identify drivers of this TDD and provide a brief overview of current and past conservation funding programmes at the European level in terms of their capacity to promote transdisciplinary approaches for large carnivore conservation. We show that current funding programmes favour sectorial and disciplinary approaches, resulting in low transdisciplinary substance in large carnivore conservation projects. TDD can be overcome by transforming the character of public funding towards multi-stakeholder collaboration, designing and nurturing effective communities of practice, and reducing co-financing rates for large, integrated projects.

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Transdisciplinary deficit in large carnivore conservation funding in Europe

Cristian-Remus¹,

Scheele²,

Rákosy³

et al. 2022

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“…as defined in Marsden and Hovardas (2020). Our data relates to support for the purchase of fencing and livestock guarding dogs, as data on their funding is most commonly available.…”

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“…The copyright holder for this preprint (which this version posted July 13, 2022. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.12.499715 doi: bioRxiv preprint Support for prevention measures. To quantify policies regarding the support of livestock damage prevention schemes, we used an ordinal variable stating whether prevention measures were financially supported between 2018-2020 in a given political region (yes, partially, or no) as defined in Marsden and Hovardas (2020). Our data relates to support for the purchase of fencing and livestock guarding dogs, as data on their funding is most commonly available.…”

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The spatial distribution and temporal trends of livestock damages caused by wolves in Europe

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Wietlisbach

Hickisch³

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SummaryWolf populations are recovering and expanding across Europe, causing conflicts with livestock owners. To mitigate these conflicts and reduce livestock damages, authorities spend considerable resources to compensate damages, support damage prevention measures, and manage wolf populations. However, the effectiveness of these measures remains largely unknown, especially at larger geographic scales. Here we compiled incident-based livestock damage data across 21 countries for the years 2018, 2019 and 2020, during which 39,445 wolf-caused incidents were reported from 470 NUTS3 regions. We found substantial regional variation in all aspects of the data, including the primary target species, the density of damages, their seasonal distribution, and their temporal trend. About one third of the variation in damage densities is explained by the area of heterogeneous landscapes consisting of forests and extensively cultivated habitats occupied by wolves. However, most of the variation remains unexplained, illustrating the inherently stochastic nature of wolf-caused livestock damages and regional variation in husbandry practices, including damage prevention measures. As we argue, the intensity of the wolf-human conflict may be monitored through trends in livestock damages, which are robust to variation in data collection across regions. We estimated increasing trends for the majority of regions, reflecting the current expansion of wolves across the continent. Nonetheless, many of these increases were moderate and for more than one third of all regions, trends were negative despite a growing wolf populations, thus indicating that wolf-livestock conflicts can be successfully mitigated with proper management.

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“…Brown bear (Ursus arctos) and grey wolf (Canis lupus) (hereafter carnivores) are controversial species that have returned to occupy part of their historical distribution range and are now legally protected in most European countries [30]. The recent return of such predators has evoked several emotions varying from admiration to a desire for their extirpation [31][32][33].…”

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The Return of Large Carnivores and Extensive Farming Systems: A Review of Stakeholders’ Perception at an EU Level

Franchini

Corazzin

Bovolenta

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Conflicts between large carnivores and human activities undermine both the maintenance of livestock practices as well as the conservation of carnivores across Europe. Because large carnivore management is driven by a common EU policy, the purpose of this research was to assess stakeholders’ perception towards bears and wolves at an EU level. We conducted a systematic search and subsequent analysis of 40 peer-reviewed studies collected from 1990 to September 2020 within Member States of the EU. Rural inhabitants and hunters exhibited the most negative attitude compared to urban inhabitants and conservationists, whose attitude was more positive. We showed that direct experience with predators as a consequence of ongoing re-colonization may have affected the degree of acceptance of certain categories and that the long-term coexistence between humans and carnivores does not necessarily imply increased tolerance. To encourage coexistence, we recommend monitoring changes in attitudes over time relative to carnivore population dynamics.

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EU Rural Development Policy and the management of conflictual species: The case of large carnivores

Cited by 9 publications

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Transdisciplinary deficit in large carnivore conservation funding in Europe

Transdisciplinary deficit in large carnivore conservation funding in Europe

The spatial distribution and temporal trends of livestock damages caused by wolves in Europe

The Return of Large Carnivores and Extensive Farming Systems: A Review of Stakeholders’ Perception at an EU Level

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EU Rural Development Policy and the management of conflictual species: The case of large carnivores

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﻿Transdisciplinary deficit in large carnivore conservation funding in Europe

﻿Transdisciplinary deficit in large carnivore conservation funding in Europe

The spatial distribution and temporal trends of livestock damages caused by wolves in Europe

The Return of Large Carnivores and Extensive Farming Systems: A Review of Stakeholders’ Perception at an EU Level

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