Essays about: "human wildlife conflicts"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 47 essays containing the words human wildlife conflicts.

  1. 21. Using camera traps to compare the habitat choice of different deer species in hunting versus non-hunting season

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies

    Author : Laura Juvany Canovas; [2019]
    Keywords : ungulates; camera trapping; occupancy modelling;

    Abstract : A general increase in ungulate populations calls for a better understanding of their habitat use and movement at small spatial scales. This understanding is necessary for the development of useful management actions to solve possible human-wildlife conflicts. One proposed management action is to use the indirect effects of hunting. READ MORE

  3. 22. Perceptions and relation-mediating mechanisms in human-wildlife conflicts : in the context of the reintroduction of the brown bear in the Pyrenees (France)

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Arthur Le Comte Du Colombier; [2019]
    Keywords : perception; brown bear; Pyrenees; historical background; psychological ownership; identification practice; Disneyfication; social representation; human-wildlife conflict;

    Abstract : Human-wildlife conflict represents a recurring challenge in the history of humankind. Since the 1970s and the environmental awakening of consciousnesses, the problem took a new dimension through competitions between people with different views about nature and wildlife. READ MORE

  4. 23. Vilket är det största hotet mot den afrikanska elefanten (Loxodonta spp.)?

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and Health

    Author : Lisa Mattsson; [2019]
    Keywords : afrikansk elefant; bevarande; skogsskövling; konflikt elefant-människa; tjuvjakt;

    Abstract : Den afrikanska elefanten är jordens största landlevande däggdjur. Det finns två olika varianter: afrikansk stäppelefant (Loxodonta africana) och afrikansk skogselefant (Loxodonta cyclotis). De afrikanska elefanterna är grundpelare i ekosystem genom att bland annat visa vägen till vatten och mat för både djur och människor. READ MORE

  5. 24. Cereal killers, when and where do they strike? : a spatio-temporal analysis of wild boar activities in Swedish agricultural fields

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Ecology

    Author : Emma Hellkvist; [2019]
    Keywords : crop damages; wild boar; Sus scrofa; human-wildlife conflict;

    Abstract : Wildlife damages to crops is one of the major factors for human-wildlife conflicts. Wild boar (Sus scrofa), has during the last decades increased greatly in numbers, both in its natural and introduced range. By eating and trampling the crop, wild boar causes huge economic losses to farmers. READ MORE

  6. 25. Impact and Perception of the Human-Wildlife Conflict; a Spatial Case Study of Management and Strategies in Skåne County

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Isabelle Bastholm; Victoria Fransson; [2019]
    Keywords : Human wildlife conflict; HWC; Environmental science; Skåne;

    Abstract : This study seeks to find the best strategies to be implemented to decrease the human-wildlife conflict (HWC). Other countries management practises and strategies to manage HWC was reviewed, in order to identify if Skåne county in Sweden could pursue improvements. READ MORE