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The latest update focuses on felid-human conflict!
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►From the Notice Board - read full messages
5/9/08 Rabies in the Americas meeting: registration deadline today 5 Sept
1/9/08 HOTGROUP bio-telemetry: monitoring and managing livestock and wildlife interactions
22/8/08 Course on good practice in stakeholder participation
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► Initiatives - many more useful links
Jaguar Conservation Network
www.jaguarnetwork.org
A portal for information and collaboration between jaguar researchers, conservationists, and people affected by jaguar predation on livestock. In the future Spanish and Portuguese versions.
 CAT - Cat Action Treasury
www.felidae.org
CAT was established in 1996 to organize and fund high priority conservation projects for the world’s 36 species of wild cat. CAT is a U.S.-based, nonprofit public charity.
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► Conflict Resolution Manuals
many ready-to-download manuals
 Guia de Convivência Gente & Onças
(Guidelines for the coexistence of people and jaguars)
Marcini & Luciano (2008)
Projeto Conviver Gente & Onças
Fundaçao Ecológica Cristalino and Wildlife Conservation Research Unit
Illustrated guide to inform landowners and the public at large about jaguar ecology, depredation problems and conservation issues (pdf ~3MB - in portuguese)
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► Recent books more books
 Der Luchs. Ein Grossraubtier in der Kulturlandschaft
[The lynx. A large predator in the cultural landscape]
Breitenmoser & Breitenmoser (2008). Salm Verlag.
A comprehensive and scientifically rigorous publication specifically about the lynx and about how viable options exist in the face of conflicting interests such as nature protection, tourism, livestock breeding and hunting (more information).
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►New papers- more bibliography
Conflicts betwen cattle ranching and large predators in Venezuela: could use of water buffalo facilitate felid conservation? Hoogesteijn & Hoogesteijn (2008) [abstract] Livestock mortality associated with jaguar and puma may be reduced by keeping buffaloes and cattle in the same paddock, or by keeping only buffalo
Cattle depredation by puma (Puma concolor) and jaguar (Panthera onca) in central-western Brazil Palmeira et al (2008) [abstract] Concentrated breeding and calving seasons, and keeping calves far from forest areas, would reduce depredation . Human-wildlife conflict in the Kingdom of Bhutan: Patterns of livestock predation by large mammalian carnivores Sangay & Vernes (2008) [abstract] Several northern districts were identified as `predation hotspots', where proportions. Recommendations.
Housing density as an indicator of spatial patterns of reported human-wildlife interactions in Northern New York. Kretser et al. (2008) [abstract] Low-density developments have unintended ecological consequences including an increase in reported human-wildlife interactions.
Human-wildlife conflict and gender in protected area borderlands: A case study of costs, perceptions, and vulnerabilities from Uttarakhand (Uttaranchal), India. Ogra (2008) [abstract] A call for increased gender-sensitivity in human wildlife conflict research.
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►Pick of the headlines -more news
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30/8/08 Vishwamitri crocodile takes another life (India)
Expressindia.com - A study reportedly found that crocodiles often attack cattle and sometimes even humans because there are no species of fish in the river.more |
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30/8/08 Hippos smile, farmers cry (Kenya)
Daily Nation - A herd of more than 20 hippos which live in a sewer in Ruai, about 20 km from Nairobi, has turned the lives of farmers into a nightmare. more |
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28/8/09 Mali: Saving elephants, saving communities
IRIN News - Implementers of an international project to help endangered elephants in Mali want to prove that by doing so, they can also help local communities adapt to climate change in the Sahel. more |
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26/8/08 On a wing and low air: The surprising way wind turbines kill bats
Scientific American - The zone of low pressure behind wind turbine blades seems to be responsible for killing migrating bats--though it remains unclear what is attracting the bats to the wind turbines in the first place more |
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20/8/08 Carla Bruni's support for brown bears angers Pyrenean farmers
The Times - Carla Bruni, France's First Lady, has drawn the wrath of Pyrenean farmers by taking up the cause of local brown bears, whose recent reintroduction has fuelled a violent feud between naturalists and sheep-breeders. more
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