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Large Carnivore Conservation: Integrating Science and Policy by Susan G. Clark, Murray B. Rutherford

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By Susan G. Clark, Murray B. Rutherford

Drawing on six case stories of wolf, grizzly endure, and mountain lion conservation in habitats stretching from the Yukon to Arizona, Large Carnivore Conservation argues that retaining and coexisting with huge carnivores is as a lot an issue of individuals and governance—of reconciling varied and occasionally conflicting values, views, and firms, and of powerful determination making within the public sphere—as it's a challenge of animal ecology and behaviour. via adopting an integrative strategy, editors Susan G. Clark and Murray B. Rutherford search to envision and comprehend the interrelated improvement of conservation technology, legislations, and coverage, in addition to how those forces play out in courts, different public associations, and the field.

In combining real-world examples with discussions of conservation and coverage thought, Large Carnivore Conservation not just explains how conventional administration techniques have did not meet the desires of all events, but additionally highlights examples of cutting edge, winning concepts and offers sensible innovations for bettering destiny conservation efforts.

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Perhaps most pointed from an agency perspective are charges that call professional skill and ethics into question, for example, from a hunter who charged that “with the aid and protection of educated wildlife management experts—cougars are wiping out our western deer herds” (Zumbo 2002, 24), and from an environmentalist that “AGFD has inexplicably and, perhaps, purposefully altered . . estimates of lion habitat . . thereby manufacturing ‘paper lions’ ” (Schubert 2002, 1–2). Some even suggest, for example, “a conspiracy to shut down local guides and to capitalize on the mountain lion” (Lermayer 2006, 8).

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