The context of an emerging predation problem: Nenets reindeer herders and Arctic foxes in Yamal
Human-wildlife problems often arise when predators kill livestock. This can develop into serious conflicts between traditional pastoralists and other stakeholders, such as government officials and conservationists. In the Yamal Peninsula (Russia), nearly half of the indigenous Nenets people are rein...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/24467 2023-05-15T14:25:30+02:00 The context of an emerging predation problem: Nenets reindeer herders and Arctic foxes in Yamal Terekhina, Alexandra Volkovitskiy, Alexander Sokolova, Natalya A. Ehrich, Dorothee Fufachev, Ivan A. Sokolov, Aleksandr A. 2021-05-12 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/24467 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-021-01497-z eng eng Springer European Journal of Wildlife Research Terekhina, Volkovitskiy, Sokolova, Ehrich, Fufachev, Sokolov. The context of an emerging predation problem: Nenets reindeer herders and Arctic foxes in Yamal. European Journal of Wildlife Research. 2021;67(3) FRIDAID 1999218 doi:10.1007/s10344-021-01497-z 1612-4642 1439-0574 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/24467 embargoedAccess Copyright 2021 The Author(s) Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed acceptedVersion 2021 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-021-01497-z 2022-03-23T23:58:04Z Human-wildlife problems often arise when predators kill livestock. This can develop into serious conflicts between traditional pastoralists and other stakeholders, such as government officials and conservationists. In the Yamal Peninsula (Russia), nearly half of the indigenous Nenets people are reindeer herders. They have recently faced many challenges, such as high mortality of reindeer from pasture icing or disease outbreaks. In addition, predation of arctic fox on reindeer calves is perceived as an increasing problem. Here, we use an interdisciplinary approach to study this emerging predation problem. We present here results from semi-structured interviews with indigenous people, as well as from biological monitoring of fox populations. Our field data were obtained in Erkuta, in the south of Yamal and in Sabetta in the north, close to a newly built industrial settlement. We show how different factors may have come together to create a problematic situation. These factors include the abandonment of the fur trade in the 1990s, the building of huge industrial facilities providing possible resource subsidies and the increasing frequency of abnormal weather events leading to weak reindeer, high reindeer mortality and abundant carcasses as resources for predators. We discuss how each of these factors affects the abundance of predators as well as the understanding of the herders. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Fox Arctic nenets Yamal Peninsula University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Arctic Yamal Peninsula ENVELOPE(69.873,69.873,70.816,70.816) Sabetta ENVELOPE(72.039,72.039,71.214,71.214) European Journal of Wildlife Research 67 3 |
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Human-wildlife problems often arise when predators kill livestock. This can develop into serious conflicts between traditional pastoralists and other stakeholders, such as government officials and conservationists. In the Yamal Peninsula (Russia), nearly half of the indigenous Nenets people are reindeer herders. They have recently faced many challenges, such as high mortality of reindeer from pasture icing or disease outbreaks. In addition, predation of arctic fox on reindeer calves is perceived as an increasing problem. Here, we use an interdisciplinary approach to study this emerging predation problem. We present here results from semi-structured interviews with indigenous people, as well as from biological monitoring of fox populations. Our field data were obtained in Erkuta, in the south of Yamal and in Sabetta in the north, close to a newly built industrial settlement. We show how different factors may have come together to create a problematic situation. These factors include the abandonment of the fur trade in the 1990s, the building of huge industrial facilities providing possible resource subsidies and the increasing frequency of abnormal weather events leading to weak reindeer, high reindeer mortality and abundant carcasses as resources for predators. We discuss how each of these factors affects the abundance of predators as well as the understanding of the herders. |
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Terekhina, Alexandra Volkovitskiy, Alexander Sokolova, Natalya A. Ehrich, Dorothee Fufachev, Ivan A. Sokolov, Aleksandr A. |
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Terekhina, Alexandra Volkovitskiy, Alexander Sokolova, Natalya A. Ehrich, Dorothee Fufachev, Ivan A. Sokolov, Aleksandr A. The context of an emerging predation problem: Nenets reindeer herders and Arctic foxes in Yamal |
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Terekhina, Alexandra Volkovitskiy, Alexander Sokolova, Natalya A. Ehrich, Dorothee Fufachev, Ivan A. Sokolov, Aleksandr A. |
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The context of an emerging predation problem: Nenets reindeer herders and Arctic foxes in Yamal |
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The context of an emerging predation problem: Nenets reindeer herders and Arctic foxes in Yamal |
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The context of an emerging predation problem: Nenets reindeer herders and Arctic foxes in Yamal |
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The context of an emerging predation problem: Nenets reindeer herders and Arctic foxes in Yamal |
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The context of an emerging predation problem: Nenets reindeer herders and Arctic foxes in Yamal |
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context of an emerging predation problem: nenets reindeer herders and arctic foxes in yamal |
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ENVELOPE(69.873,69.873,70.816,70.816) ENVELOPE(72.039,72.039,71.214,71.214) |
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European Journal of Wildlife Research Terekhina, Volkovitskiy, Sokolova, Ehrich, Fufachev, Sokolov. The context of an emerging predation problem: Nenets reindeer herders and Arctic foxes in Yamal. European Journal of Wildlife Research. 2021;67(3) FRIDAID 1999218 doi:10.1007/s10344-021-01497-z 1612-4642 1439-0574 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/24467 |
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