Birds and Beaches, Dogs and Leashes: Dog Owners' Sense of Obligation to Leash Dogs on Beaches in Victoria, Australia

Williams, Kathryn; Weston, Michael A.; Henry, S. R.; Maguire, Grainne S.

doi:10.1080/10871200802649799

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“…Sidney Spit provides important habitat for a variety of wildlife, particularly bird species (Maurer, 1989), and offleash dogs can be a significant source of disturbance to such wildlife (Lafferty, 2001;Antos et al, 2007;Williams et al, 2009). Current park regulations dictate that dogs must be on-leash at all times in the park.…”

Section: Dog Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visualizing Our Options for Coastal Places: Exploring Realistic Immersive Geovisualizations as Tools for Inclusive Approaches to Coastal Planning and Management

2017

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Effective coastal planning is inclusive and incorporates the variety of user needs, values and interests associated with coastal environments. Realistic, immersive geographic visualizations, i.e., geovisualizations, can serve as potentially powerful tools for facilitating such planning because they can provide diverse groups with vivid understandings of how they would feel about certain management outcomes or impacts if transpired in real places. However, the majority of studies in this area have focused on terrestrial environments, and research on applications of such tools in the coastal and marine contexts is in its infancy. The current study aims to advance such research by examining the potential a land-to-sea geovisualization has to serve as a tool for inclusive coastal planning efforts. The research uses Sidney Spit Park (BC, Canada) as a study site, and a realistic, dynamic geovisualization of the park was developed (using Unity3D) that allows users to interact with and navigate it through the first-person perspective. Management scenarios were developed based on discussions with Parks Canada, and these scenarios included fencing around vegetation areas, positioning of mooring buoys, and management of dog activity within the park. Scenarios were built into the geovisualization in a manner that allows users to toggle different options. Focus groups were then assembled, involving residents of the Capital Regional District (BC, Canada), and participants explored and provided feedback on the scenarios. Findings from the study demonstrate the geovisualization's usefulness for assessing certain qualities of scenarios, such as aesthetics and functionality of fencing options and potential viewshed impacts associated with different mooring boat locations. In addition, the study found that incorporating navigability into the geovisualization proved to be valuable for understanding scenarios that hold implications for the marine environment due to user ability to cross the land-sea interface and experience underwater places. Furthermore, this research demonstrated that building scenarios within a realistic geovisualization required modeling place-based characteristics (including soundscape) as well as spatial properties. This approach can allow users the ability to more comprehensively assess scenarios and consider potential options.

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Section: Dog Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visualizing Our Options for Coastal Places: Exploring Realistic Immersive Geovisualizations as Tools for Inclusive Approaches to Coastal Planning and Management

2017

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“…These studies have focused on specific aspects of the social environment including evaluating education campaigns (Ormsby & Forys 2010), evaluating awareness and attitudes (Antos et al 2006, van Polanen Petel & Bunce 2012, Jorgensen & Brown 2015, assessing human and bird response to beach closures (Burger & Niles 2013, Maguire et al 2013, assessing the attitudes and motivations of dog owners (Bridson 2000, Williams et al 2009, Jorgensen & Brown 2014, and evaluating incentive payments in private lands conservation (Ramsdell et al 2016). While informative and useful, these studies generally lack standardized approaches or conceptual frameworks which would broaden their applicability.…”

Section: Charadrius Melodusmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Human dimensions studies focused on shorebirds are relatively recent (Bridson 2000, Antos et al 2006, Williams et al 2009, Ormsby & Forys 2010, van Polanen Petel & Bunce 2012, Burger & Niles 2013, Maguire et al 2013, Jorgensen & Brown 2014, Ramsdell et al 2016. These studies have focused on specific aspects of the social environment including evaluating education campaigns (Ormsby & Forys 2010), evaluating awareness and attitudes (Antos et al 2006, van Polanen Petel & Bunce 2012, Jorgensen & Brown 2015, assessing human and bird response to beach closures (Burger & Niles 2013, Maguire et al 2013, assessing the attitudes and motivations of dog owners (Bridson 2000, Williams et al 2009, Jorgensen & Brown 2014, and evaluating incentive payments in private lands conservation (Ramsdell et al 2016).…”

Section: Charadrius Melodusmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Restrictions may include human exclusion zones, prohibition of recreation known to negatively impact shorebirds (e.g., all-terrain vehicle use) or increased enforcement of existing regulations (e.g., dog leash laws; USFWS 1994, Burger 1995. Even in situations where shorebirds and their habitats are legally protected, the effectiveness of protection measures relies upon public support and high rates of compliance with restrictions (Dowling & Weston 1999, Williams et al 2009, Jorgensen & Brown 2014. Unfortunately, restricting recreation for the benefit of shorebirds may foment negative attitudes toward shorebirds and result in conflicts (Panzar 2013, Harmon 2014.…”

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Impact perceptions and acceptance capacity toward Piping Plovers Charadrius melodusamong visitors on a public beach in Nebraska, USA

Jorgensen¹,

Brown²

2016

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“…Migratory shorebirds are therefore likely to be under increasing pressure from anthropogenic disturbances and in urgent need of cost-effective enforcement strategies. Indeed, simple and implementable solutions exist for reducing disturbance to shorebirds, such as education (Antos et al, 2006), establishing a local culture of compliance (Williams et al 2009), keeping dogs on leashes (Williams et al, 2009) and limiting access to important feeding or roosting areas (Weston et al, 2012b).…”

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Threats to migratory birds, and actions for their conservation

Dhanjal‐Adams¹

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Migratory species undertake some of the most extreme feats of endurance known in the animal kingdom. Despite many species migrating across continents, oceans and hemispheres, most cannot survive everywhere. Migrants are highly dependent on strategically located breeding and feeding sites for survival and reproduction. Indeed, many species are constrained in time and space by seasonal resource availability, thus forming migratory bottlenecks. Threats operating in such bottlenecks can impact the population as a whole, and can impact survival and reproduction at later migratory stages. In fact, migratory species worldwide are declining at greater rates than non-migratory species. Many migratory species are at risk of extinction if no conservation action is taken.Pinpointing where and when threats occur, and understanding how they impact population dynamics of migratory species is complex. Few tools are available for diagnosing declines, and even fewer for prioritising conservation actions in migratory species. As a result, our understanding of how to conserve migratory species is remarkably poor. In my thesis, I tackle these fundamental gaps in our knowledge by 1) developing and testing a method to distinguish local from remote drivers of population growth rate in migratory species, 2) mapping critical habitat, and 3) prioritising conservation actions at local and international scales. I use the migratory shorebirds of the East-Asian Australasian Flyway as a case study. The East-Asian Australasian Flyway supports 60 species migrating across 23 political jurisdictions, many of which are in significant decline.In Chapter 1, I introduce my thesis by outlining key topics surrounding the conservation of migrants, linking them to my case study. In Chapter 2, I distinguish between local and remote drivers of population growth in migrants, using (i) count data from a single site within a migratory flyway, and (ii) a list of potential stopover sites. Indeed, for migratory species with large distributions, count data, mark-recapture studies or tagging records from across the entire geographic distribution are rare. Monitoring data are typically only available for one or a few sites. Newly available remote sensing data offer an opportunity to investigate how conditions in other parts of migratory cycle affect population growth rate at a monitored site. Analysing count data from Moreton Bay, Australia, I show that it is possible to identify effects of climatic conditions throughout the flyway on the population growth rate of migratory shorebirds as measured at a non-breeding site. My results also show that declines are occurring consistently 3 across all study species, but that there are some clear differences in temperature and rainfall impacts on population growth rate.Information about the distribution and status of habitat is crucial when devising conservation plans for migratory species, yet very little is known about the distribution, extent and protection of the intertidal habitats used by migratory shorebirds. ...

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Birds and Beaches, Dogs and Leashes: Dog Owners' Sense of Obligation to Leash Dogs on Beaches in Victoria, Australia

Cited by 89 publications

References 17 publications

Visualizing Our Options for Coastal Places: Exploring Realistic Immersive Geovisualizations as Tools for Inclusive Approaches to Coastal Planning and Management

Visualizing Our Options for Coastal Places: Exploring Realistic Immersive Geovisualizations as Tools for Inclusive Approaches to Coastal Planning and Management

Impact perceptions and acceptance capacity toward Piping Plovers Charadrius melodusamong visitors on a public beach in Nebraska, USA

Threats to migratory birds, and actions for their conservation

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