Legal regulation of supplementary cervid feeding facing chronic wasting disease
The supplementary feeding of cervids is a widespread practice across the northern hemisphere. There are few studies, however, regarding the extent of feeding in space and time. There are adverse effects of supplementary feeding, of which the most severe are increased parasite and disease transmissio...
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ftoslouniv:oai:www.duo.uio.no:10852/75415 2023-05-15T13:13:43+02:00 Legal regulation of supplementary cervid feeding facing chronic wasting disease Mysterud, Atle Viljugrein, Hildegunn Solberg, Erling Johan Rolandsen, Christer Moe 2019-09-05T10:26:04Z http://hdl.handle.net/10852/75415 http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-78598 https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.21746 EN eng http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-78598 Mysterud, Atle Viljugrein, Hildegunn Solberg, Erling Johan Rolandsen, Christer Moe . Legal regulation of supplementary cervid feeding facing chronic wasting disease. Journal of Wildlife Management. 2019 http://hdl.handle.net/10852/75415 1721780 info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.jtitle=Journal of Wildlife Management&rft.volume=&rft.spage=&rft.date=2019 Journal of Wildlife Management 83 8 1667 1675 https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.21746 URN:NBN:no-78598 Fulltext https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/75415/2/Mysterud_2019_JWM_legal%2Bregulation%2Bof%2Bsupplementary%2Bcervid%2Bfeeding%2Bfacing%2BCWD.pdf Attribution 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC-BY 0022-541X Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed PublishedVersion 2019 ftoslouniv https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.21746 2020-06-21T08:54:21Z The supplementary feeding of cervids is a widespread practice across the northern hemisphere. There are few studies, however, regarding the extent of feeding in space and time. There are adverse effects of supplementary feeding, of which the most severe are increased parasite and disease transmission. With the recent emergence of chronic wasting disease (CWD) among cervids in Norway, a legal regulation was issued that banned all supplementary cervid feeding. We quantified the spatial extent and intentions of feeding cervids across all of Norway using a questionnaire at the municipality scale. We also compared spatial extent of feeding before and after the feeding ban to shed light on the ability of regulations to control supplementary feeding. Supplementary feeding to increase winter survival and targeting roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) was more common (48.4% of the municipalities) than the feeding of red deer (Cervus elaphus; 20.5%) and moose (Alces alces; 7.4%). The main feeding period was January–March, but extensive feeding also occurred from November to December and in April. Reducing traffic accidents was also a motivation, particularly for the feeding of moose (14.5%), and this was the main motivation (86%) for public feeding. Among the 65.7% that responded, 53.3% reported they knew about supplemental feeding of cervids in their municipality. In the region with the first feeding ban, 80.2% of municipalities were feeding in 2015–2016 before the ban, which was reduced to 68.4% in 2016–2017 and remained at 68.4% in 2017–2018. In the remainder of Norway, 81.4% were feeding in 2015–2016, and 72.6% were feeding in 2016–2017, but after the ban, this increased to 78.6% in the harsh winter of 2017–2018. Our study highlights that regulations across broad scales may not be followed and that more spatially targeted regulations and increased enforcement are required for disease transmission to be more effectively combated. © 2019 The Authors. Journal of Wildlife Management published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of The Wildlife Society. Article in Journal/Newspaper Alces alces Universitet i Oslo: Digitale utgivelser ved UiO (DUO) Norway The Journal of Wildlife Management 83 8 1667 1675 |
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The supplementary feeding of cervids is a widespread practice across the northern hemisphere. There are few studies, however, regarding the extent of feeding in space and time. There are adverse effects of supplementary feeding, of which the most severe are increased parasite and disease transmission. With the recent emergence of chronic wasting disease (CWD) among cervids in Norway, a legal regulation was issued that banned all supplementary cervid feeding. We quantified the spatial extent and intentions of feeding cervids across all of Norway using a questionnaire at the municipality scale. We also compared spatial extent of feeding before and after the feeding ban to shed light on the ability of regulations to control supplementary feeding. Supplementary feeding to increase winter survival and targeting roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) was more common (48.4% of the municipalities) than the feeding of red deer (Cervus elaphus; 20.5%) and moose (Alces alces; 7.4%). The main feeding period was January–March, but extensive feeding also occurred from November to December and in April. Reducing traffic accidents was also a motivation, particularly for the feeding of moose (14.5%), and this was the main motivation (86%) for public feeding. Among the 65.7% that responded, 53.3% reported they knew about supplemental feeding of cervids in their municipality. In the region with the first feeding ban, 80.2% of municipalities were feeding in 2015–2016 before the ban, which was reduced to 68.4% in 2016–2017 and remained at 68.4% in 2017–2018. In the remainder of Norway, 81.4% were feeding in 2015–2016, and 72.6% were feeding in 2016–2017, but after the ban, this increased to 78.6% in the harsh winter of 2017–2018. Our study highlights that regulations across broad scales may not be followed and that more spatially targeted regulations and increased enforcement are required for disease transmission to be more effectively combated. © 2019 The Authors. Journal of Wildlife Management published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of The Wildlife Society. |
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http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-78598 Mysterud, Atle Viljugrein, Hildegunn Solberg, Erling Johan Rolandsen, Christer Moe . Legal regulation of supplementary cervid feeding facing chronic wasting disease. Journal of Wildlife Management. 2019 http://hdl.handle.net/10852/75415 1721780 info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.jtitle=Journal of Wildlife Management&rft.volume=&rft.spage=&rft.date=2019 Journal of Wildlife Management 83 8 1667 1675 https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.21746 URN:NBN:no-78598 Fulltext https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/75415/2/Mysterud_2019_JWM_legal%2Bregulation%2Bof%2Bsupplementary%2Bcervid%2Bfeeding%2Bfacing%2BCWD.pdf |
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