Artificial feeding of wildlife: where do we go?
Food provisioning to wildlife is an issue of increasing conservation concern due to its consequences on species and ecosystems. Humans have increased the amount of food available to wildlife and its spatio-temporal predictability; about 30–40% of all food produced in the world is wasted (1). One of...
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ftjyvaeskylaenun:oai:jyx.jyu.fi:123456789/62370 2024-06-09T07:50:05+00:00 Artificial feeding of wildlife: where do we go? Selva, Nuria Huber, Djuro 2018 text/html fulltext https://doi.org/10.17011/conference/eccb2018/108185 http://urn.fi/ eng eng Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä https://peerageofscience.org/conference/eccb2018/108185/ ECCB2018: 5th European Congress of Conservation Biology. 12th - 15th of June 2018, Jyväskylä, Finland Selva, N. and Huber, D. (2018). Artificial feeding of wildlife: where do we go?. 5th European Congress of Conservation Biology. doi:10.17011/conference/eccb2018/108185 doi:10.17011/conference/eccb2018/108185 http://urn.fi/ CC BY 4.0 © the Authors, 2018 openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferenceItem conference paper not in proceedings publishedVersion conferenceObject 2018 ftjyvaeskylaenun https://doi.org/10.17011/conference/eccb2018/108185 2024-05-15T10:19:52Z Food provisioning to wildlife is an issue of increasing conservation concern due to its consequences on species and ecosystems. Humans have increased the amount of food available to wildlife and its spatio-temporal predictability; about 30–40% of all food produced in the world is wasted (1). One of these practices, quite widespread, is the artificial feeding of game animals. Here, we take the brown bear Ursus arctos as a model species to review the magnitude of artificial feeding in Europe and the documented effects on the ecology and behavior of the species. In most of the European countries where brown bears are hunted, artificial feeding is applied, mostly to facilitate hunting. However, official justifications include keeping bears away from human settlements, preventing damages and other conflicts, monitoring the population status and trend, increasing the habitat capacity, allowing medical treatment and facilitating photographing. In countries where bears are not hunted, although they are not officially fed, they intensively use the artificial food provided for ungulates. Over decades, the amount of food served to bears both intentionally and unintentionally keeps increasing. Moreover, the number of feeding sites is also on the rise and artificial feeding is moving from feeding in certain emergency situations to an almost year-round feeding (2). In many European countries this practice is completely unregulated or the rules are often violated. Bear feeding for photographing is in most countries out of control. Corn, beetroots, grain, carrots and even leftovers from the markets are often found in the forest to feed bears and other wildlife. Recent scientific evidence shows that this practice causes profound changes in the ecology and behavior of bears (i.e. 3). Researchers have documented changes in bear diet, alteration of movements, disruption of winter denning, increases in bear body mass, earlier sexual maturity of females and facilitation of pathogen transmission at feeding sites. The provision of ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Ursus arctos JYX - Jyväskylä University Digital Archive Proceedings of the 5th European Congress of Conservation Biology |
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Food provisioning to wildlife is an issue of increasing conservation concern due to its consequences on species and ecosystems. Humans have increased the amount of food available to wildlife and its spatio-temporal predictability; about 30–40% of all food produced in the world is wasted (1). One of these practices, quite widespread, is the artificial feeding of game animals. Here, we take the brown bear Ursus arctos as a model species to review the magnitude of artificial feeding in Europe and the documented effects on the ecology and behavior of the species. In most of the European countries where brown bears are hunted, artificial feeding is applied, mostly to facilitate hunting. However, official justifications include keeping bears away from human settlements, preventing damages and other conflicts, monitoring the population status and trend, increasing the habitat capacity, allowing medical treatment and facilitating photographing. In countries where bears are not hunted, although they are not officially fed, they intensively use the artificial food provided for ungulates. Over decades, the amount of food served to bears both intentionally and unintentionally keeps increasing. Moreover, the number of feeding sites is also on the rise and artificial feeding is moving from feeding in certain emergency situations to an almost year-round feeding (2). In many European countries this practice is completely unregulated or the rules are often violated. Bear feeding for photographing is in most countries out of control. Corn, beetroots, grain, carrots and even leftovers from the markets are often found in the forest to feed bears and other wildlife. Recent scientific evidence shows that this practice causes profound changes in the ecology and behavior of bears (i.e. 3). Researchers have documented changes in bear diet, alteration of movements, disruption of winter denning, increases in bear body mass, earlier sexual maturity of females and facilitation of pathogen transmission at feeding sites. The provision of ... |
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