Safeguarding human-wildlife cooperation. ...

• Main Authors: Van Der Wal, Jessica EM, Spottiswoode, Claire N, Uomini, Natalie T, Cantor, Mauricio, Daura-Jorge, Fábio G, Afan, Anap I, Attwood, Mairenn C, Amphaeris, Jenny, Balasani, Fatima, Begg, Colleen M, Blair, Cameron J, Bronstein, Judith L, Buanachique, Iahaia O, Cuthill, Rion RT, Das, Jewel, Deb, Apurba, Dixit, Tanmay, Dlamini, Gcina S, Dounias, Edmond, Gedi, Isa I, Gruber, Martin, Hoffmann, Lilian S, Holzlehner, Tobias, Isack, Hussein A, Laltaika, Eliupendo A, Lloyd-Jones, David J, Lund, Jess, Machado, Alexandre MS, Mahadevan, L, Moreno, Ignacio B, Nwaogu, Chima J, Pereira, Valdomiro L, Pierotti, Raymond, Rucunua, Seliano A, Dos Santos, Wilson F, Serpa, Nathalia, Smith, Brian D, Tolkova, Irina, Tun, Tint, Valle-Pereira, João VS, Wood, Brian M, Wrangham, Richard W, Cram, Dominic L
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2022
• Subjects: animal culture; biocultural conservation; biodiversity conservation; dolphins; honeyguides; human–wildlife interactions; interspecies cooperation; mutualism; orcas; wolves; Orca
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.84930; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/337515

Human-wildlife cooperation occurs when humans and free-living wild animals actively coordinate their behavior to achieve a mutually beneficial outcome. These interactions provide important benefits to both the human and wildlife communities involved, have wider impacts on the local ecosystem, and represent a unique intersection of human and animal cultures. The remaining active forms are human-honeyguide and human-dolphin cooperation, but these are at risk of joining several inactive forms (including human-wolf and human-orca cooperation). Human-wildlife cooperation faces a unique set of conservation challenges, as it requires multiple components-a motivated human and wildlife partner, a suitable environment, and compatible interspecies knowledge-which face threats from ecological and cultural changes. To safeguard human-wildlife cooperation, we recommend: (i) establishing ethically sound conservation strategies together with the participating human communities; (ii) conserving opportunities for human and ...