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Abstract
Managing conflictual scenarios involving large carnivores is generally addressed from an animal-centric perspective. This is rather contradictory because such conflicts are mostly triggered by human conduct that acts on animal’s instinctive behaviors. Shifting conflict mitigation perspectives to human behaviors may thus provide a more consistent management strategy than focusing only on animals. For example, human habituation and anthropogenic food conditioning are 2 main conflict drivers that mostly depend on human behavior. Thus, an approach that addresses the human dimension aspects of these conflicts needs to be reinforced. I offer 6 points to consider in prioritizing management to mitigate human–bear conflicts and, more generally, large carnivore conflicts. One of the most difficult challenges is not only managing habituated large carnivores, but also intensifying the human behavior-related management efforts.
Recommended Citation
Penteriani, Vincenzo
(2023)
"Conflict Animals, or Conflict People—That Is the Question,"
Human–Wildlife Interactions: Vol. 17:
Iss.
1, Article 13.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26077/0cmj-pe63
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/hwi/vol17/iss1/13
