Most ecosystems are increasingly being degraded and reduced by human activities at the
local and global scales. In contrast, urban environments are expanding as increasing …

Large carnivores inhabiting human-dominated landscapes often interact with people and
their properties, leading to conflict scenarios that can mislead carnivore management and …

Populations of large carnivores are recovering in Europe and incur increasing conflict
interactions with human activities. According to the agenda-setting theory, the media …

Encounters between humans and wildlife that result in human fatalities can generate public
anxiety and increase pressure on conservation managers and governments for risk …

Public tolerance toward predators is fundamental in their conservation and is highly driven
by people's perception of the risk they may pose. Although predator attacks on humans are …

Attempts to minimize the effects of human–wildlife conflict (HWC) on conservation goals
require an understanding of the mechanisms by which such conflicts are caused and …

Conserving threatened carnivore species increasingly depends on the capacity of local
people to cohabit with those species. To examine such capacity we developed a novel …

Local attitudes towards wildlife species are key for the coexistence between humans and
wildlife. To assess how economic, social, and psychological factors affect human perception …

This research aims to foster discourse about the extent to which gender is important to
consider within the context of participatory approaches for biological conservation. Our …

The extraordinary population growth of certain ungulate species is increasingly a concern in
agroforestry areas because overabundance may negatively affect natural environments and …