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The theory and practice for creating effective education and outreach programmes for conservation. An exciting array of techniques forenhancing school resources, marketing environmental messages, using mass media, developing partnerships for conservation, and designing on-site programmes for natural areas and community centres. Vivid case studies from around the world illustrate techniques and describe planning, implementation,and evaluation procedures, enabling readers to implement their own new ideas effectively.

Conservation education
and outreach techniques: A handbook of techniques (Techniques in ecology & conservation)
Jacobson, McDuff & Monroe. Oxford University Press. 2006
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Examines the full range of issues surrounding the presence or absence of wildlife in urban communities.

The hidden wilderness: Understanding urban wildlife isues
E. Adams. 2005. 352 pp. CRC Press
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In-depth look at wildlife and human interaction in this spectacular area of the world. Written by William Conway, former president of the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Act III in Patagonia: People and Wildlife
William Conway. 2005. 320 pp. Shearwater Books
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A close-up look at the socio-political context of large carnivores and their management in western Wyoming south of Yellowstone National Park.

Coexisting with Large Carnivores: Lessons from Greater Yellowstone
Clark, Rutherford & Casey (Eds.) 2005. 288 pp. Island Press
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A revolutionary agenda for managing and expanding wildlands in Britain, based on 'rewilding' through restoraton, reintroductions, and working to reconcile human needs and livelihoods and the needs of nature.

Beyond Conservation: A Wildland Strategy
Peter Taylor. 2005. 296pp.
Earthscan Publications Ltd
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Examining the wolf recovery program from a policy-making perspective

Beyond Wolves: The Politics of Wolf Recovery and Management
Nie. 2003. 280pp. University of
Minnesota Press
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How knowledge of animal behaviour may help increase the effectiveness of conservation programmes.

Animal Behavior and
Wildlife Conservation
Festa-Bianchet & Apollonio (Eds) 2003. 322pp. Island Press
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A valuable source of information for farmers to look at the issue of wildlife conflicts with new vision, highlighting that prevention is the cure. The book will assist farmers in southern Africa in recognizing and managing wildlife conflict and understanding the environmental role of wildlife species on farms.

New! Predators and Farmers
Hodkinson, Davies-Mostert, Komen &Snow (eds). 2007. The Endangered Wildlife Trust (digital) (pdf 3MB)

Information on the wide array of practical and proven techniques available to ranchers and suburbanites for coexisting with coyotes.

Coyotes in Our Midst: Coexisting with an Adaptable and Resilient Carnivore
The Animal Protection Institute. 2005 download! (4.6 MB)

 

The book emphasizes adaptive management and large landscape approach. Specifically geared to wildlife managers

Cougar Management Guidelines
Cougar Management Guidelines
Working Group. 2005. WildFutures,
Bainbridge Island
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Solutions to human-wildlife conflicts, novel and traditional, including farming practices, hunting and tourism, local and national policies

People and wildlife,
conflict or co-existence?
Woodroffe, Thirgood & Rabinowitz (Eds). 2005. 496 pp. Cambridge University Press
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A reference work about the challenge issued by the presence of wolves and bears in France

La cohabitation homes/grands prédateurs en France
Benhammou, Baillon & Sénotier (Eds) 2004. 213 pp. Recherches Naturalistes en Région Centre n°14 more details

 

A challenging work of nonfiction on the growing conflict between people and pumas in suburban America, with a moral lesson on how we are changing animal behavior in troubling ways and the need to control our actions in consequence.

The Beast in the Garden:
A Modern Parable of Man
and Nature
Baron. 2003. 288pp. W.W. Norton & Company
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A life-long naturalist with a passion for predators tells the fascinating story of carnivores and our intricate relationships with them.

Hunter and Hunted: Relationships Between Carnivores and People
Kruuk. 2002. 260pp. Cambridge University Press
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The definitive book on canid biology and conservation, covers all canid species and topics relevant to modern conservation science.

Biology and Conservation
of Wild Canids
Macdonald & Sillero-Zubiri (Eds) 2004. 432pp. Oxford University Press
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Case studies of human-carnivore conflicts in a variety of landscapes, including rural, urban, and political, offering practical, concrete approaches to resolving conflicts

People and Predators: From Conflict to Coexistence Fascione, Delach & Smith (Eds.) 2004. 304 pp. Island Press
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Historical information on wildlife and its conservation relative to human welfare provides a perspective to evaluate historical experiences, both successes and failures.

Wildlife, Conservation and Human Welfare
Taber & Payne. 2004. 232pp. Krieger Publishing Company
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A complete revision of the very popular original edition of this book on raising and maintaining livestock protection dogs.

Livestock Protection Dogs: Selection, Care and Training 2nd edition. Dawydiak & Sims 2004. Alpine Publications
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This book emphasizes the inter-relatedness of wildlife damage management within the broader fields of wildlife management and ecology.

Resolving Human Wildlife Conflicts: The Science of Wildlife Damage Management
 Conover. 2002. 440pp CRC Press more details

People-wildlife conflicts in Japan from a social anthropological perspective.

Waiting for Wolves in Japan: An Anthropological Study of People-wildlife Relations Knight. 2003. 308pp. Oxford University Press
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Replacing the original book The Wolf(1970) as the bible for wolf researchers and admirers, this new text assembled by 22 world-class experts can be read by scientists and non-scientist alike.

Wolves: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation
 Mech & Boitani (Eds.) 2003. 488pp. University of Chicago Press
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Born Free Foundation

"A partnership between the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) and Born Free Foundation, seeking to resolve conflicts between the needs of people and those of wildlife, and develop long-term, humane solutions."

WildCRU