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Figure 1 in Can wildlife mortality on a local road tell something general? An answer from a protected area in south-western Romania
Figure 1. Study area (blue line–rivers, black line–roads, discontinuous line–Iron Gates Natural Park limits, black dots–localities, red dots–the six studied sectors on the road to Bigăr).
Figure 2 in Can wildlife mortality on a local road tell something general? An answer from a protected area in south-western Romania
Figure 2. The studied road in Sector 2 (up left) and Sector 3 (up right), and two road–killed vertebrates identified on the road: Salamandra salamandra (down left) and Talpa sp. (down right).
Data and code from: Three decades of wildlife-vehicle collisions in a protected area: main roads and long-distance commuting trips to migratory prey increase spotted hyena roadkills in the Serengeti
<p>This is the first release. Potential updates will be available on GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/MarwanNaciri/Three_decades_of_spotted_hyena_roadkill_in_a_protected_area">https://github.com/MarwanNaciri/Three_decades_of_spotted_hyena_roadkill_in_a_protected_area</a></p>
Figure 3 in Can wildlife mortality on a local road tell something general? An answer from a protected area in south-western Romania
Figure 3. Similarity between sectors (S1–S6–studied sectors).
Figure 4 in Can wildlife mortality on a local road tell something general? An answer from a protected area in south-western Romania
Figure 4. Similarity between periods (I–XII–studied months).
Direction of Arrival Estimation for Wildlife Protection - Soundfiles
<p>Soundfiles collected during data collection related to the Licenciate thesis "Direction of Arrival<br>Estimation for Wildlife Protection".</p>
An experimental test of community-based strategies for mitigating human-wildlife conflict around protected areas
<p>Natural habitats are rapidly being converted to cultivated croplands, and crop-raiding by wildlife threatens both wildlife conservation and human livelihoods worldwide. We combined movement data from GPS-collared elephants with camera-trap data and local reporting systems in a before-after-control-impact design to evaluate community-based strategies for reducing crop raiding outside Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park. All types of experimental fences tested (beehive, chili, beehive and chili combined, and procedural controls) significantly reduced the number of times elephants left the Park to raid crops. However, placing beehive fences at a subset of key crossing locations reduced the probability that elephants would leave the Park by up to 95% relative to unfenced crossings, and was the most effective strategy. Beehive fences also created opportunities for income generation via honey production. Our results provide experimental evidence that working with local communities to modify both animal behavior and human attitudes can mitigate conflict at the human-wildlife interface.</p>
An experimental test of community-based strategies for mitigating human-wildlife conflict around protected areas
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Data from: Integrating encounter theory with decision analysis to evaluate collision risk and determine optimal protection zones for wildlife
1. Better understanding human-wildlife interactions and their links with management can help improve the design of wildlife protection zones. One important example is the problem of wildlife collisions with vehicles or human-built structures (e.g. power lines, wind farms). In fact, collisions between marine wildlife and watercraft are among the major threats faced by several endangered species of marine mammals. Natural resource managers are therefore interested in finding cost-effective solutions to mitigate these threats. 2. We combined abundance estimators with encounter rate theory to estimate relative lethal collision risk of the Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) from watercraft. We first modeled seasonal abundance of watercraft and manatees using a Bayesian analysis of aerial survey count data. We then modeled relative lethal collision risk in space and across seasons. Finally, we applied decision analysis and Linear Integer Programming to determine the optimal design of speed zones in terms of relative risk to manatees and costs to waterway users. We used a Pareto efficient frontier approach to evaluate the performance of alternative zones, which included additional practical considerations (e.g. spatial aggregation of speed zones) in relation to the optimal zone configurations. 3. Under the various relationships for probability of death given strike speed that we considered, the current speed zones reduced the relative lethal collision risk by an average of 51.5% to 70% compared to the scenario in which all speed regulations were removed (i.e. the no-protection scenario). We identified optimal zones and near-optimal zones with additional management considerations that improved upon the current zones in terms of cost or relative risk. 4. Policy Implications: Our analytical framework combines encounter rate theory and decision analysis to quantify the effectiveness of speed zones protecting manatees while accounting for uncertainty. Our approach can be used to optimize the design of protection zones intended to reduce conflicts between human waterborne activity and marine mammals. This framework could be extended to address many other problems of human-wildlife interactions, such as the optimal placement of wind farms to minimize collisions with wildlife or the optimal allocation of ranger effort to mitigate poaching threats.
Data from: Does hunting or hiking affect wildlife communities in protected areas?
Managed public wild areas have dual mandates to protect biodiversity and provide recreational opportunities for people. These goals could be at odds if recreation, ranging from hiking to legal hunting, disrupts wildlife enough to alter their space use or community structure. We evaluated the effect of managed hunting and recreation on 12 terrestrial wildlife species by employing a large citizen science camera trapping survey at 1947 sites stratified across different levels of human activities in 32 protected forests in the eastern USA. Habitat covariates, especially the amount of large continuous forest and local housing density, were more important than recreation for affecting the distribution of most species. The four most hunted species (white-tailed deer, raccoons, eastern grey and fox squirrels) were commonly detected throughout the region, but relatively less so at hunted sites. Recreation was most important for affecting the distribution of coyotes, which used hunted areas more compared with unhunted control areas, and did not avoid areas used by hikers. Most species did not avoid human-made trails, and many predators positively selected them. Bears and bobcats were more likely to avoid people in hunted areas than unhunted preserves, suggesting that they perceive the risk of humans differently depending on local hunting regulations. However, this effect was not found for the most heavily hunted species, suggesting that human hunters are not broadly creating 'fear' effects to the wildlife community as would be expected for apex predators. Synthesis and applications. Although we found that hiking and managed hunting have measureable effects on the distribution of some species, these were relatively minor in comparison with the importance of habitat covariates associated with land use and habitat fragmentation. These patterns of wildlife distribution suggest that the present practices for regulating recreation in the region are sustainable and in balance with the goal of protecting wildlife populations and may be facilitated by decades of animal habituation to humans. The citizen science monitoring approach we developed could offer a long-term monitoring protocol for protected areas, which would help managers to detect where and when the balance between recreation and wildlife has tipped.
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