2014
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12117
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Resolving Human‐Bear Conflict: A Global Survey of Countries, Experts, and Key Factors

Abstract: Human-bear conflicts cause annoyance, financial losses, injuries, and even death to people. In poorer parts of the world, conflicts with bears can affect local economies. Retaliation against bears may threaten the future of small, isolated populations. Our survey of the world's bear experts revealed that the problem is worsening in terms of severity of conflicts and their impact on bear conservation on all four continents inhabited by bears. However, the main drivers of conflict, and its manifestations, differ… Show more

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“…Similarly, distrust and the feeling of disempowerment are potential threats to coexistence. However, these can be reduced by more actively including people in carnivore management (Treves et al 2006), and by developing more effective conflict mitigation strategies (Can et al 2014). Although none of the interviewed respondents expressed the wish to be directly involved in bear management, several respondents to the questionnaires showed this aspiration (Appendix S3).…”
Section: Managing Coexistence In Southern Transylvaniamentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Similarly, distrust and the feeling of disempowerment are potential threats to coexistence. However, these can be reduced by more actively including people in carnivore management (Treves et al 2006), and by developing more effective conflict mitigation strategies (Can et al 2014). Although none of the interviewed respondents expressed the wish to be directly involved in bear management, several respondents to the questionnaires showed this aspiration (Appendix S3).…”
Section: Managing Coexistence In Southern Transylvaniamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Despite an increasing recognition of the need to integrate social science into understanding the extent of human-carnivore conflicts (Carter et al 2012;Inskip et al 2014), the majority of studies to date have described conflicts or attitudes towards carnivores, whereas fewer studies have focused on the underlying drivers and impacts of conflict (Barua et al 2013;Can et al 2014;Madden and McQuinn 2014). In Europe, such knowledge is particularly important because Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s13280-015-0760-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Furthermore, management agendas will need to include measures to mitigate current and future human-wildlife conflict. Existing frameworks have been developed to address human-wildlife conflict (Can et al, 2014) and research groups, governmental agencies, and nonprofits have made progress towards coexistence of humans and large carnivores. Our work represents the first large-scale human opinion survey about large carnivores in Turkey and is a contribution to a growing database on quantifying human attitudes towards large carnivores in this region of the world (Dressel et al, 2014).…”
Section: Effects Of Human-carnivore Conflict In Turkey On Carnivore Cmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Understanding bear behavior is critical, given that they often spatially overlap with human populations (Bateman and Fleming 2012), are known to utilize anthropogenic resources (Beckmann and Berger 2003;Hostetler et al 2009), and can threaten human lives and property (Treves and Karanth 2003). The American black bear (Ursus americanus), for instance, is the most widely distributed North American bear, possesses many traits that allow persistence in human-dominated landscapes (Stirling and Derocher 1990;Larivière 2001;Beckmann and Berger 2003;Johnson et al 2015), and is frequently involved in human-wildlife conflict (Can et al 2014). Thus, elucidating bear personality may contribute to our understanding of the many ecological and evolutionary consequences of behavior, facilitate an understanding of the mechanisms inherent to the phenomenon (Wolf and Weissing 2012), and, ultimately, benefit wildlife management and conservation efforts (McDougall et al 2006).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%