A reflection on the policy of culling brown bears (Ursus arctos) in Romania
In this article, we present a critical reflection on the policy of culling brown bear ( Ursus arctos ) populations in Romania, to understand how these policies can be adjusted by introducing complementary analyses of the (neglected) impact of anthropogenic effects upon bear habitats. In particular,...
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ftdatacite:10.5281/zenodo.5729327 2023-05-15T18:41:52+02:00 A reflection on the policy of culling brown bears (Ursus arctos) in Romania Quintanilha, Tiago Lima 2021 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5729327 https://zenodo.org/record/5729327 en eng Zenodo https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5729328 Open Access Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC-BY Romania; culling policies; Human-Wildlife Conflicts; Human-Wildlife Interactions; Human-Bear Conflicts; Deforestation; Hunting quotas; Anthropogenic effects; Human-bear conflict management. article-journal ScholarlyArticle JournalArticle 2021 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5729327 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5729328 2022-02-08T15:39:54Z In this article, we present a critical reflection on the policy of culling brown bear ( Ursus arctos ) populations in Romania, to understand how these policies can be adjusted by introducing complementary analyses of the (neglected) impact of anthropogenic effects upon bear habitats. In particular, we focus on human-driven deforestation and its effects on increasing conflicts between bears and human settlements, as well as the use of unrealistic bear population estimates to legitimize larger hunting quotas for economic purposes. We use studies on the impact of human activity upon the habitats of different sub-species of bears to demonstrate that human interference in bear habitats is not only responsible for massive deforestation in Romania, but also leads to an increase in human-bear conflicts in the country. Thereby, we attempt to demonstrate that brown bear culling policies in Romania, which tend to legitimize, tacitly, the demonization of bear populations, are unfounded according to multiple studies and can be replaced by alternative models to manage human-bear conflicts. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ursus arctos DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Romania; culling policies; Human-Wildlife Conflicts; Human-Wildlife Interactions; Human-Bear Conflicts; Deforestation; Hunting quotas; Anthropogenic effects; Human-bear conflict management. Quintanilha, Tiago Lima A reflection on the policy of culling brown bears (Ursus arctos) in Romania |
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In this article, we present a critical reflection on the policy of culling brown bear ( Ursus arctos ) populations in Romania, to understand how these policies can be adjusted by introducing complementary analyses of the (neglected) impact of anthropogenic effects upon bear habitats. In particular, we focus on human-driven deforestation and its effects on increasing conflicts between bears and human settlements, as well as the use of unrealistic bear population estimates to legitimize larger hunting quotas for economic purposes. We use studies on the impact of human activity upon the habitats of different sub-species of bears to demonstrate that human interference in bear habitats is not only responsible for massive deforestation in Romania, but also leads to an increase in human-bear conflicts in the country. Thereby, we attempt to demonstrate that brown bear culling policies in Romania, which tend to legitimize, tacitly, the demonization of bear populations, are unfounded according to multiple studies and can be replaced by alternative models to manage human-bear conflicts. |
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A reflection on the policy of culling brown bears (Ursus arctos) in Romania |
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A reflection on the policy of culling brown bears (Ursus arctos) in Romania |
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A reflection on the policy of culling brown bears (Ursus arctos) in Romania |
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