Navigating “Human Wildlife Conflict” situations from the individual's perspective

Eklund, Ann; Waldo, Åsa; Johansson, Maria; Frank, J. Howard

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110117

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“…However, wildlife was often discussed as part of the scenery of nature. This creates a situation where the potential salutogenic effects of wildlife seem to stand in the shadows, and the role of animal presence may not be visible to people until their presence negatively impacts on human interests (Buijs & Jacobs, 2021;Eklund et al, 2023). Yet, more focused observations of wildlife as figure rather than ground had relevance for psychological restoration.…”

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“…The literature on wildlife in local natural settings has focused mainly on the negative feelings that people associate with impacts of animals on their goals and activities, as well as associated social conflicts (Eklund et al, 2023), prerequisites for co-existence (König et al, 2020) and the introduction of adaptive management (Månsson et al, 2023). A more positive view on human-wildlife interactions and how such interactions would provide relational values in general (Methorst et al, 2020), and psychologically salutogenic effects specifically, has been called for (Buijs & Jacobs, 2021).…”

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Wildlife and public perceptions of opportunities for psychological restoration in local natural settings

Johansson,

Hartig,

Frank

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People and Nature

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Wildlife might be important to psychologically restorative values and disvalues of nature, as interactions with wildlife could trigger both positive and negative feelings. Research on positive experiences of human–wildlife interactions has largely involved participants who voluntarily sought out wildlife experiences or it has addressed encounters with non‐threatening animals in urban green spaces. Less is known about the opportunities for psychological restoration in landscapes shared with mammals that are perceived to pose a threat to human activities and health. This study provides a nuanced understanding of the role of wildlife in public perceptions of the restorative potential and experience of psychological restoration in local natural settings. Twenty‐eight participants (15 women, 13 men, 18–75 years) took part in focus group interviews subject to a reflexive thematic analysis. As an analytical framework, we used a theoretical model for how people appraise the relevance, implications, coping potential and norm congruence of human–wildlife interactions and how such appraisals may support or hinder the restoration experienced in local natural settings. Relevance appraisals revealed shifts in consideration of the presence of wildlife from an integrated part of the natural scenery (background) to a distinct figure (foreground). Implication appraisals revealed that wildlife encounters would hinder the experienced psychological restoration if the animal was appraised as dangerous, disgusting, causing a nuisance or destructive. Wildlife encounters would promote restoration if the animal displayed attractive traits, features or fascinating behaviour or movements, and if it opened engaging interaction situations. Coping strategies perceived as feasible to deal with negative implications of wildlife involved avoidance of the local natural setting, preparatory behaviour displayed before a visit and precautionary behaviour displayed during the visit. Important public health effects might be gained if wildlife policy and management explicitly consider what animals mean to the perceived restorative potential of local natural settings. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Wildlife and public perceptions of opportunities for psychological restoration in local natural settings

Johansson,

Hartig,

Frank

et al. 2024

People and Nature

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“…It evaluates the effectiveness of ecological restoration projects, corridor construction, and habitat restoration plans to enhance habitat environmental capacity [21][22][23][24]. The fourth category explores optimized conflict management models between humans and wildlife, investigating the mechanisms and efficacy of conflict occurrence and mitigation measures [25][26][27][28][29].…”

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Optimizing Wildlife Habitat Management in Socio-Ecological Systems: An Evolutionary Game Theory Approach

Wang,

Chen,

Liang

2023

Forests

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This paper focuses on the issue of balancing interests between stakeholders and ecosystems in the process of wildlife habitat conservation. By employing evolutionary game theory, an analysis framework for the socio-ecological system of wildlife habitats is constructed, comprising four main entities: central government, farmers, local government, and ecosystems. This framework explores the influencing factors of habitat protection strategies adopted by various stakeholders and the conditions required for the socio-ecological system to evolve towards an ideal state. In this paper, we analyze how the central government can design cost–benefit-based policy mechanisms, control the evolution of the socio-ecological system by altering conditions, and achieve a balance of interests among all parties involved in the habitat protection process. In this study, we find that the central government should establish disturbance monitoring indicators for human activities and ecological restoration, based on different compensation standards. Moreover, the hierarchical management of wildlife habitat according to different management levels can enhance the probability of the socio-ecological system evolving towards an ideal state, while achieving the sum of social costs. Additionally, shifting the compensation strategies for farmers and local governments from cost compensation to benefit compensation will reduce the harmful costs that the ecosystem imposes on the social system, thereby facilitating the realization of an ideal wildlife habitat protection and management model. Therefore, the central government should intensify compensation efforts and design reasonable compensation standards, transitioning the compensation function from cost recovery to income generation. Simultaneously, guidance should be provided to farmers for the rational utilization of forest resources to increase their income. The alignment of agricultural activities with habitat protection goals should be encouraged, and local governments should establish mechanisms for realizing the value of ecological products, making relatively implicit long-term social welfare explicit.

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Times of trouble—seasonal variation in number and severity of attacks on sheep caused by large carnivores and eagles in Sweden

Eklund,

Frank,

Nilsson

et al. 2023

Eur J Wildl Res

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Wildlife managers and livestock owners can choose from a multitude of interventions to prevent carnivore attacks on domestic animals, ranging from light and sound deterrents to fencing and lethal control. To guide management and make the best and most cost-effective choice of interventions, knowledge about where and when these measures are needed the most is important. By identifying spatiotemporal patterns of carnivore attacks, resources can be used more efficiently to prevent such attacks. We used a Swedish nationwide, long-term data set to identify inter- and intra-seasonal variation in probability, number, and severity (number of killed or injured per attack) of large carnivore attacks on sheep. Our results show that there are specific “times of trouble”, regarding the number of attacks from golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) in late spring, and from brown bears (Ursus arctos), lynx (Lynx lynx), and wolves (Canis lupus) in late summer. Additionally, for brown bears and wolves, the severity of attacks varied throughout the grazing season with a peak in the latter part of the summer. The results can be used for guidance of temporal prioritisation of preventive interventions to reduce the probability, number, and severity of large carnivore attacks on sheep.

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Navigating “Human Wildlife Conflict” situations from the individual's perspective

Cited by 11 publications

References 173 publications

Wildlife and public perceptions of opportunities for psychological restoration in local natural settings

Wildlife and public perceptions of opportunities for psychological restoration in local natural settings

Optimizing Wildlife Habitat Management in Socio-Ecological Systems: An Evolutionary Game Theory Approach

Times of trouble—seasonal variation in number and severity of attacks on sheep caused by large carnivores and eagles in Sweden

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