Carnivore conflict survey

[Jorgelina Marino]

Dear list members,

If you have being involved with translocation of carnivores to reduce
conflict, please get involved and contribute your information

Thanks

Jorgelina


-----Original Message-----
From: Francisco Fontúrbel [mailto:font...@gmail.com]
Sent: 29 November 2009 13:44
To: Canid Specialist Group; cani...@maillist.ox.ac.uk; ca...@kora.ch
Subject: [Canids-L]: Carnivore conflict survey

Dear specialists,

We are conducting a revision of the published papers and reports regarding
carnivore translocations to solve human-wildlife conflict. A surprising (or
maybe not too much) aspect is that there is no translocation cost reported
in any paper or official document.

If you work or have worked in the past at an organization that performed
carnivores¹ translocations, we will appreciate very much your help taking a
couple of minutes of your time filling this short survey with 3 questions:

1) Name of the researcher and / or the institution that conducted the
translocation.
2) Group of carnivore translocated (felids, canids, bears, etc.) and
species.
3) The overall cost of moving one individual (in US dollars or any standard
currency).

Please e-mail the survey to my institutional email address:
font...@ug.uchile.cl

Thank you very much for your help!!!

Kind regards from Chile,


Francisco E. Fontúrbel
Science Faculty, Universidad de Chile
Las Palmeras 3425 Ñuñoa
Santiago, CHILE

[vidya athreya]

Hi Jorgelina

perhaps the researchers are also taking other "costs" into consideration - like the stress to the animal (psycological and physiological) during the intervention and the effect on conflict post-translocation (which is a serious consideration in a populous country like India given that post translocation most carnivores exhibit wide scale movements and lost carnivore among high densities of people is asking for trouble) which has also been studied by the Large Carnivore Lab (google search should get you there) with mountain lions and leopards in India (by us).

And Fransisco, our paper has gone for review right now - but our report on the same is present at the web page (where translocation increases conflict near site of release) www.projectwaghoba.in (articles link).

best

vidya

2009/11/30 Jorgelina Marino <jorgelin...@zoo.ox.ac.uk>

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