Data from: Multiscale factors affecting human attitudes toward snow leopards and wolves ...

• Main Authors: Suryawanshi, Kulbhushansingh R., Bhatia, Saloni, Bhatnagar, Yash Veer, Redpath, Stephen, Mishra, Charudutt
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2015
• Subjects: human–wildlife conflicts; Anthropocene; Panthera uncia; carnivore; wildlife acceptance; Canis lupus; Indian
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.6f8p0; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.6f8p0

The threat posed by large carnivores to livestock and humans makes peaceful coexistence between them difficult. Effective implementation of conservation laws and policies depends on the attitudes of local residents toward the target species. There are many known correlates of human attitudes toward carnivores, but they have only been assessed at the scale of the individual. Because human societies are organized hierarchically, attitudes are presumably influenced by different factors at different scales of social organization, but this scale dependence has not been examined. We used structured interview surveys to quantitatively assess the attitudes of a Buddhist pastoral community toward snow leopards (Panthera uncia) and wolves (Canis lupus). We interviewed 381 individuals from 24 villages within 6 study sites across the high-elevation Spiti Valley in the Indian Trans-Himalaya. We gathered information on key explanatory variables that together captured variation in individual and village-level socioeconomic ... : Multiscale factors affecting human attitudes toward snow leopards and wolves-DatasetSheet 1: Contains the meta data describing all the column heads of sheet 2. Sheet 2 contains the raw data. Column heads describe the values contained within them. Rows are individual observations (interviews). ...