Title
Searching for the coexistence recipe: A case study of conflicts between people and tigers in the Russian Far East
Author(s)
Dale Miquelle; Igor Nikolaev; John Goodrich; Boris Litvinov; Evgeny Smirnov
Published
2005
Abstract
Large carnivores provide the ultimate test of society's willingness to conserve wildlife. They present a unique conservation challenge because first, large carnivores generally require large tracts of land, and second, they can and do kill people and domestic animals. Governments throughout the world are creating protected areas, suggesting that society seems willing to apportion some land for conservation, but whether it is willing to dedicate sufficiently large tracts, and whether it is willing to accept the risk of living in close proximity to large carnivores, are questions yet to be answered. Because human-induced mortality is one of the greatest threats to persistence of carnivore populations worldwide (Woodroffe and Ginsberg 1998), resolving human–carnivore conflicts is key to their survival. Whether a future exists for these most charismatic components of wild ecosystems will largely depend on networks of suitable habitat and intervention programmes that minimize risks to both carnivores and people.
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