The positive experience of encountering wolves in the wild
Large carnivores often impact human livelihoods and well‐being. Previous research has mostly focused on the negative impacts of large carnivores on human well‐being but has rarely considered the positive aspects of living with large carnivores. In particular, we know very little on people's dir...
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ftunivstirling:oai:dspace.stir.ac.uk:1893/31951 2023-05-15T15:50:26+02:00 The positive experience of encountering wolves in the wild Arbieu, Ugo Albrecht, Jorg Mehring, Marion Bunnefeld, Nils Reinhardt, Ilka Mueller, Thomas Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BIK-F) Biological and Environmental Sciences LUPUS Institute for Wolf Monitoring and Research orcid:0000-0002-1349-4463 2020-05 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1893/31951 https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.184 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/31951/1/csp2.184.pdf en eng Wiley Arbieu U, Albrecht J, Mehring M, Bunnefeld N, Reinhardt I & Mueller T (2020) The positive experience of encountering wolves in the wild. Conservation Science and Practice, 2 (5), Art. No.: e184. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.184 e184 http://hdl.handle.net/1893/31951 doi:10.1111/csp2.184 WOS:000576760800004 1680898 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/31951/1/csp2.184.pdf © 2020 The Authors. Conservation Science and Practice published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Conservation Biology This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY attitudes emotions human‐wildlife interactions social survey Journal Article VoR - Version of Record 2020 ftunivstirling https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.184 2022-06-13T18:44:39Z Large carnivores often impact human livelihoods and well‐being. Previous research has mostly focused on the negative impacts of large carnivores on human well‐being but has rarely considered the positive aspects of living with large carnivores. In particular, we know very little on people's direct experiences with large carnivores like personal encounters and on people's awareness and tolerance toward their exposure to large carnivores. Here, we focus on the wolf (Canis lupus), and report on a phone survey in Germany. We examined whether encounters with wolves were positive or negative experiences and quantified people's awareness and tolerance related to their exposure to wolves. We found that the majority of people reported positive experiences when encountering wolves, regardless of whether wolves were encountered in the wild within Germany, in the wild abroad, or in captivity. The frequency of encounters did not affect the probability to report positive, neutral, or negative experiences. Moreover, people in Germany expressed a high tolerance of living in close vicinity to wolves. These findings are novel and important because they highlight the positive aspects of living in proximity with large carnivores in human‐dominated landscapes. Article in Journal/Newspaper Canis lupus University of Stirling: Stirling Digital Research Repository Conservation Science and Practice 2 5 |
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Large carnivores often impact human livelihoods and well‐being. Previous research has mostly focused on the negative impacts of large carnivores on human well‐being but has rarely considered the positive aspects of living with large carnivores. In particular, we know very little on people's direct experiences with large carnivores like personal encounters and on people's awareness and tolerance toward their exposure to large carnivores. Here, we focus on the wolf (Canis lupus), and report on a phone survey in Germany. We examined whether encounters with wolves were positive or negative experiences and quantified people's awareness and tolerance related to their exposure to wolves. We found that the majority of people reported positive experiences when encountering wolves, regardless of whether wolves were encountered in the wild within Germany, in the wild abroad, or in captivity. The frequency of encounters did not affect the probability to report positive, neutral, or negative experiences. Moreover, people in Germany expressed a high tolerance of living in close vicinity to wolves. These findings are novel and important because they highlight the positive aspects of living in proximity with large carnivores in human‐dominated landscapes. |
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The positive experience of encountering wolves in the wild |
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Arbieu U, Albrecht J, Mehring M, Bunnefeld N, Reinhardt I & Mueller T (2020) The positive experience of encountering wolves in the wild. Conservation Science and Practice, 2 (5), Art. No.: e184. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.184 e184 http://hdl.handle.net/1893/31951 doi:10.1111/csp2.184 WOS:000576760800004 1680898 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/31951/1/csp2.184.pdf |
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