Drivers of Predator Killing by Rural Residents and Recommendations for Fostering Coexistence in Agricultural Landscapes
Predators inhabiting human-dominated landscapes are vulnerable to various anthropogenic actions, including people killing them. We assess potential drivers of predator killing in an agricultural landscape in southern Chile, and discuss the implications for policies and interventions to promote coexi...
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crfrontiers:10.3389/fcosc.2021.712044 2024-02-11T10:02:48+01:00 Drivers of Predator Killing by Rural Residents and Recommendations for Fostering Coexistence in Agricultural Landscapes Gálvez, Nicolás St. John, Freya A. V. Davies, Zoe G. 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2021.712044 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2021.712044/full unknown Frontiers Media SA https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Frontiers in Conservation Science volume 2 ISSN 2673-611X journal-article 2021 crfrontiers https://doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2021.712044 2024-01-26T10:06:00Z Predators inhabiting human-dominated landscapes are vulnerable to various anthropogenic actions, including people killing them. We assess potential drivers of predator killing in an agricultural landscape in southern Chile, and discuss the implications for policies and interventions to promote coexistence. We evaluate five different types of motivation: (i) sociodemographics and household economy; (ii) livestock loss; (iii) predator encounter rates; (iv) knowledge of legal protection (all native predators are currently protected); and, (v) tolerance to livestock predation. As the killing of native predators is illegal, the prevalence of this behavior by rural residents was estimated using a symmetrical forced-response randomized response technique (RRT), a method designed to ask sensitive questions. A total of 233 rural residents from randomly assigned sample units (4 km 2 ) across the study region completed our questionnaire. More conspicuous species, such as hawks ( Falconiformes sp ), foxes ( Lycalopex sp ) and free-roaming domestic dogs ( Canis lupus familiaris ), were killed by a higher proportion of farmers than more cryptic species, like the felid güiña ( Leopardus guigna ), skunk ( Conepatus chinga ) and pumas ( Puma concolor ). The proportion of respondents admitting to killing predators was highest for hawks (mean = 0.46, SE = 0.08), foxes (mean = 0.29, SE = 0.08) and dogs (mean = 0.30, SE = 0.08) and lowest for güiña (mean = 0.10, SE = 0.09), which is the only species of conservation concern we examine (considered Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List). From our five motivation categories, past killing of predators was associated with higher reported predator encounter rates (guina, hawks), lower tolerance to livestock predation (hawks, dogs), higher reported livestock loss (dogs) and sociodemographics and household economy (foxes). Our results demonstrate that a one-size-fits-all approach to predator persecution is unlikely to reduce or eliminate illegal killings for the suite of species we examined. We ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Canis lupus Frontiers (Publisher) Guina ENVELOPE(-64.350,-64.350,-65.750,-65.750) Frontiers in Conservation Science 2 |
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Predators inhabiting human-dominated landscapes are vulnerable to various anthropogenic actions, including people killing them. We assess potential drivers of predator killing in an agricultural landscape in southern Chile, and discuss the implications for policies and interventions to promote coexistence. We evaluate five different types of motivation: (i) sociodemographics and household economy; (ii) livestock loss; (iii) predator encounter rates; (iv) knowledge of legal protection (all native predators are currently protected); and, (v) tolerance to livestock predation. As the killing of native predators is illegal, the prevalence of this behavior by rural residents was estimated using a symmetrical forced-response randomized response technique (RRT), a method designed to ask sensitive questions. A total of 233 rural residents from randomly assigned sample units (4 km 2 ) across the study region completed our questionnaire. More conspicuous species, such as hawks ( Falconiformes sp ), foxes ( Lycalopex sp ) and free-roaming domestic dogs ( Canis lupus familiaris ), were killed by a higher proportion of farmers than more cryptic species, like the felid güiña ( Leopardus guigna ), skunk ( Conepatus chinga ) and pumas ( Puma concolor ). The proportion of respondents admitting to killing predators was highest for hawks (mean = 0.46, SE = 0.08), foxes (mean = 0.29, SE = 0.08) and dogs (mean = 0.30, SE = 0.08) and lowest for güiña (mean = 0.10, SE = 0.09), which is the only species of conservation concern we examine (considered Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List). From our five motivation categories, past killing of predators was associated with higher reported predator encounter rates (guina, hawks), lower tolerance to livestock predation (hawks, dogs), higher reported livestock loss (dogs) and sociodemographics and household economy (foxes). Our results demonstrate that a one-size-fits-all approach to predator persecution is unlikely to reduce or eliminate illegal killings for the suite of species we examined. We ... |
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Gálvez, Nicolás St. John, Freya A. V. Davies, Zoe G. Drivers of Predator Killing by Rural Residents and Recommendations for Fostering Coexistence in Agricultural Landscapes |
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Drivers of Predator Killing by Rural Residents and Recommendations for Fostering Coexistence in Agricultural Landscapes |
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Drivers of Predator Killing by Rural Residents and Recommendations for Fostering Coexistence in Agricultural Landscapes |
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Drivers of Predator Killing by Rural Residents and Recommendations for Fostering Coexistence in Agricultural Landscapes |
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Drivers of Predator Killing by Rural Residents and Recommendations for Fostering Coexistence in Agricultural Landscapes |
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Drivers of Predator Killing by Rural Residents and Recommendations for Fostering Coexistence in Agricultural Landscapes |
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drivers of predator killing by rural residents and recommendations for fostering coexistence in agricultural landscapes |
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