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People and Predators
From Conflict To CoexistenceNina Fascione, Aimee Delach, Martin Smith  | Published: 10/06/2004
Publisher: Island Press
304 p. 6 x 9
Tables. Figures. Maps.
Index.
ISBN: 9781559630849
Also Available: Hardcover
| | Biographies | Quotes | Table Of Contents | Invasive Alien Species: A New Synthesis Carnivores provide innumerable ecological benefits and play a unique role in preserving and maintaining ecosystem services and function, but at the same time they can create serious problems for human populations. A key question for conservation biologists and wildlife managers is how to manage the world's carnivore populations to conserve this important natural resource while mitigating harmful impacts on humans. In People and Predators, leading scientists and researchers offer case studies of human-carnivore conflicts in a variety of landscapes, including rural, urban, and political. The book covers a diverse range of taxa, geographic regions, and conflict scenarios, with each chapter dealing with a specific facet of human-carnivore interactions and offering practical, concrete approaches to resolving the conflict under consideration. Chapters provide background on particular problems and describe how challenges have been met or what research or tools are still needed to resolve the conflicts. People and Predators will helps readers to better understand issues of carnivore conservation in the 21st century, and provides practical tools for resolving many of the problems that stand between us and a future in which carnivores fulfill their historic ecological roles. Coming soon -- an excerpt from People and Predators. NINA FASCIONE is vice president, AIMEE DELACH is program associate, and MARTIN E. SMITH was until 2003 a carnivore biologist in the Species Conservation Department of Defenders of Wildlife. DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting wildlife and its habitat. Also of interest from Island Press: Wildlife Restoration
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BiographiesNina Fascione is VP, Species Conservation, Defenders of Wildlife, DC Aimee Delach is Senior Associate, Species Conservation Division, Defenders of Wildlife, DC Martin E. Smith is Carnivore Biologist, Defenders of Wildlife, DC. Defenders of Wildlife is dedicated to the protection of all native wild animals and plants in their natural communities. We focus our programs on what scientists consider two of the most serious environmental threats to the planet: the accelerating rate of extinction of species and the associated loss of biological diversity, and habitat alteration and destruction. Long known for our leadership on endangered species issues, Defenders of Wildlife also advocates new approaches to wildlife conservation that will help keep species from becoming endangered. Our programs encourage protection of entire ecosystems and interconnected habitats whi le protecting predators that serve as indicator species for ecosystem health. Founded in 1947, Defenders of Wildlife is a 501(c)(3) membership organization with over 460,000 members and supporters nationwide. Quotes"People and Predators book is a very timely examination of the ecological, cultural, and political challenges of learning how to co-exist with large predators in an increasingly urban and human-dominated world. Large carnivores have always been larger than life for people, a basis for some of our deepest fears and attractions to nature, and a major source of competition for both habitat and other animals. It would be an impoverished and diminished world if wolves, cats, bears, and other large predators no longer existed. This book helps point the way toward how we can learn to share this one earth with these magnificent creatures." --Stephen R. Kellert
"The editors of People and Predators have carefully selected case studies that describe the conflicts between carnivores and humans in a variety of environmental settings. Reading these chapters provides a broad knowledge of one of the most difficult conservation issues we face, and leaves readers with many new ideas about how to advance toward ecological and political solutions to the carnivore-human conflict." --Michael L. Morrison
"For many years, conservationists worldwide have maintained that the future of large carnivores in an increasingly human-dominated world depends largely on tolerance informed by science-based management. Paradoxically, those predators once regarded as threats to our survival are now a test of how likely we are to achieve sustainability and coexistence with the natural elements that sustain us. People and Predators cogently and unabashedly addresses that challenge in an important and timely series of instructive chapters by scientists, activists, and educators. I am optimistic that this unusually broad-minded and collaborative effort by improbable colleagues is symbolic of society's increased understanding and acceptance of large predators." --Paul C. Paquet
Table Of ContentsTable of Contents
Foreword James A. Estes
Preface
Introduction
Part 1. Coexistence in
Rural Landscapes
Chapter 1. Minimizing Carnivore-Livestock Conflict: The Importance and
Process of Research in the Search for Coexistence
Chapter 2. Characteristics of Wolf Packs in Wisconsin: Identification
of Traits Influencing Depredation
Chapter 3. Wolves in Rural Agricultural Areas of Western North America:
Conflict and Conservation
Part 2. Coexistence in
Developed Landscapes
Chapter 4. Ecology and Management of Striped Skunks, Raccoons, and
Coyotes in Urban Landscapes
Chapter 5. Birds of Prey in Urban Landscapes
Chapter 6. Challenges in Conservation of the Endangered San Joaquin Kit
Fox
Chapter 7. Carnivore Conservation and Highways: Understanding the
Relationships, Problems, and Solutions
Chapter 8. Living with Fierce Creatures? An Overview and Models of
Mammalian Carnivore Conservation
Part 3. Coexistence in
Political Landscapes
Chapter 9. Dispersal and Colonization in the Florida Panther:
Overcoming Landscape Barriers—Biological and Political
Chapter 10. State Wildlife Governance and Carnivore Conservation
Chapter 11. Conserving Mountain Lions in a Changing Landscape
Chapter 12. Restoring the Gray Wolf to the Southern Rocky Mountains:
Anatomy of a Campaign to Resolve a Conservation Issue
Conclusion
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Index
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