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Quantifying environmental crime and the effectiveness of policy interventions is difficult because perpetrators typically conceal evidence. To prevent illegal uses of natural resources, such as poaching endangered species, governments have advocated granting policy flexibility to local authorities b...
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ftdatacite:10.5061/dryad.b7d7v 2023-12-31T10:05:43+01:00 Data from: Blood does not buy goodwill: allowing culling increases poaching of a large carnivore ... Chapron, Guillaume Treves, Adrian 2016 https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.b7d7v https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.b7d7v en eng Dryad https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2939 Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode cc0-1.0 policy signal wolf illegal hunting Canis lupus Dataset dataset 2016 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.b7d7v10.1098/rspb.2015.2939 2023-12-01T12:06:09Z Quantifying environmental crime and the effectiveness of policy interventions is difficult because perpetrators typically conceal evidence. To prevent illegal uses of natural resources, such as poaching endangered species, governments have advocated granting policy flexibility to local authorities by liberalizing culling or hunting of large carnivores. We present the first quantitative evaluation of the hypothesis that liberalizing culling will reduce poaching and improve population status of an endangered carnivore. We show that allowing wolf (Canis lupus) culling was substantially more likely to increase poaching than reduce it. Replicated, quasi-experimental changes in wolf policies in Wisconsin and Michigan, USA, revealed that a repeated policy signal to allow state culling triggered repeated slowdowns in wolf population growth, irrespective of the policy implementation measured as the number of wolves killed. The most likely explanation for these slowdowns was poaching and alternative explanations found ... : Wolf data for Wisconsin and MichiganWolf population size, culling quota, days with delisting or culling allowed, wolf area, pack size and reproductionchapron_treves_2016.Rdata ... Dataset Canis lupus DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Quantifying environmental crime and the effectiveness of policy interventions is difficult because perpetrators typically conceal evidence. To prevent illegal uses of natural resources, such as poaching endangered species, governments have advocated granting policy flexibility to local authorities by liberalizing culling or hunting of large carnivores. We present the first quantitative evaluation of the hypothesis that liberalizing culling will reduce poaching and improve population status of an endangered carnivore. We show that allowing wolf (Canis lupus) culling was substantially more likely to increase poaching than reduce it. Replicated, quasi-experimental changes in wolf policies in Wisconsin and Michigan, USA, revealed that a repeated policy signal to allow state culling triggered repeated slowdowns in wolf population growth, irrespective of the policy implementation measured as the number of wolves killed. The most likely explanation for these slowdowns was poaching and alternative explanations found ... : Wolf data for Wisconsin and MichiganWolf population size, culling quota, days with delisting or culling allowed, wolf area, pack size and reproductionchapron_treves_2016.Rdata ... |
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