Relating to the wild: Key actors’ values and concerns about lynx reintroduction

Lopes-Fernandes, Margarida; Frazão-Moreira, Amélia

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.04.019

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“…For example, in our particular case study, we would recommend investigating through a qualitative approach the attitudes of stakeholders involved in wildlife management to better understand the drivers of poaching and the extent of this problem. In fact, in an ethnographic study conducted in Portugal some game managers positioned against lynx reintroduction because they perceived the lynx as a damaging wildlife species (Lopes‐Fernandez & Frazão‐Moreira, 2017).…”

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Support to Iberian lynx reintroduction and perceived impacts: Assessments before and after reintroduction

Delibes‐Mateos

Glikman

Lafuente

et al. 2021

Conservat Sci and Prac

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The assessment of the human dimensions of wildlife reintroduction projects is essential for their success. To date, few longitudinal studies (if any) have compared attitudes and perceived impacts before and after human‐assisted large predator reintroduction. In this study, we evaluated public (n = 1582) and hunters' (n = 773) support and perceived benefits and concerns before and after the reintroduction of the Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) (2007–2008 and 2015–2016, respectively) in southern Spain through a telephone survey. Most respondents supported lynx reintroduction, although support was slightly lower among hunters. Furthermore, support remained very high some years after lynx release. Our findings also revealed that perceptions toward the majority of benefits and concerns did not change after lynx reintroduction, and that those supporting reintroduction perceived more benefits, while opponents were more concerned. This suggests that efforts should focus on those opponents to reintroduction to ensure recognition of the benefits associated with predator restoration, including new tourism opportunists and predator's ecological values. Our research also points at the need of studying more in depth the views of those who oppose to predator reintroduction and of decision‐makers (e.g., landowners or game managers) when poaching is still a risk for restored populations even if the social context is favorable, as in our case‐study.

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Support to Iberian lynx reintroduction and perceived impacts: Assessments before and after reintroduction

Delibes‐Mateos

Glikman

Lafuente

et al. 2021

Conservat Sci and Prac

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“…Fear and personal safety issues could be among the main drivers of the negative attitude toward lynx in Lithuania (e.g., [62]). Fear of lynx also exists in the other European countries [63][64][65], and that may be based on insufficient knowledge of the species [66].…”

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Citizen Scientists Showed a Four-Fold Increase of Lynx Numbers in Lithuania

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By the early 2000s, Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) were nearly extirpated in Lithuania. To determine their status, we used snow-track counts in 2006–2012 and volunteer monitoring in 1999–2005 and 2015–2018. Using simple questionnaires, we collected incidental observations from hunters, foresters, and other interested citizens to estimate lynx distribution, abundance and extent of breeding. Citizen scientists provided 206 reports of 278 individual lynx that suggested expanding lynx distributions in central, western, southwestern, and southern parts of Lithuania. A decrease in range fragmentation has also been observed since 2015. Nationwide, the lynx population quadrupled from 2010 to 162 individuals in 2018. The number of breeding individuals reported was just seven in both 2007 and 2008, limited to two forests in the very north and central part of the country. This increased to 46 in 2015–2018. Our results indicate that the lynx population in Lithuania has increased and its conservation status should be reconsidered.

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“…It implied humans and animals essentially as equals but in competition. In our European context, and considering frequent classifications by locals, in which there was a clear hierarchy of humans over non humans, dominion values are the background of attitudes towards wildlife (see also Lopes-Fernandes and Frazão-Moreira 2017).…”

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‘Among predators’: the place of humans, Iberian lynx and other wild carnivores

Lopes-Fernandes¹,

Espírito-Santo²,

Frazão-Moreira³

2022

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Using an ethnoecological approach we studied perceptions, empirical classifications and practices towards wild predators in Portuguese protected areas. Results from 131 semi-structured interviews allowed the analysis of classification, criteria used by key actors and the understanding of an emic perspective on the differentiation of the natural world. Further analysis and data from observation reveal local ecological knowledge associated with characteristics of carnivores. Oral memories about coexistence of humans with wolf and lynx in the late 20 th century in Baixo Alentejo are described. Humans are recognized as one of the predators in a complex and apparent dualistic view of domestic and wild realms associated with past control practices. In its reintroduction area the threatened Iberian lynx raised much interest locally and after being classified as an "outsider" it became the centre of touristification. This case study characterizes a European rural scenario "among predators" where nature conservation is facing challenges and Anthropology has an opportunity of interdisciplinary application.

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Relating to the wild: Key actors’ values and concerns about lynx reintroduction

Cited by 11 publications

References 37 publications

Support to Iberian lynx reintroduction and perceived impacts: Assessments before and after reintroduction

Support to Iberian lynx reintroduction and perceived impacts: Assessments before and after reintroduction

Citizen Scientists Showed a Four-Fold Increase of Lynx Numbers in Lithuania

‘Among predators’: the place of humans, Iberian lynx and other wild carnivores

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