Community attitudes towards Amur tigers (Panthera tigris altaica) and their prey species in Yanbian, Jilin province, a region of northeast China where tigers are returning.
Community attitudes towards Amur tigers (Panthera tigris altaica) and their prey species in Yanbian, Jilin province, a region of northeast China where tigers are returning.
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10.1371/journal.pone.0276554
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2022
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3.7
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社区对大型食肉动物的态度对它们在人类主导的景观中的保护至关重要。本研究对吉林省延边朝鲜族自治州的东北虎(Panthera Tigris Altaica)、东北豹(Panthera Pardus Orientalis)、熊(Ursus thibetanus和Ursus arctos)以及它们的猎物梅花鹿(Cervus Nippon)、马尾鹿(Roe Deer)和野猪(Sus Scrofa)的社区态度和认知进行了评估。通过对139户居民的调查发现，社区成员对大型食肉动物及其猎物的认知受其主要的经济活动、与野生动物的互动、家庭收入水平以及他们是否为延边的长期居民或从中国的其他地方迁徙到该地区的影响。在我们调查的社区中，我们记录了对大型食肉动物的相当中性的态度，但对野猪表现出强烈的负面态度，特别是在受访者因野猪袭击农作物而失去农产品的地方。我们建议东北中国的保护利益攸关方利用这一发现，通过围绕老虎作为生态系统中野猪关键捕食者的重要性进行宣传，鼓励支持大型食肉动物的恢复和保护。此外，我们的发现表明，政府为大型食肉动物(尤其是老虎)捕食的牛提供补偿，可能有助于减少牛主对大型食肉动物的敌意。然而，我们也强调，牲畜损失赔偿因此在缓解人与野生动物之间的冲突方面发挥了有益的作用，目前的赔偿计划可能会产生意想不到的后果，例如，它未能劝阻牲畜在保护区放牧。
Community attitudes towards large carnivores are of central importance to their conservation in human-dominated landscapes. In this study, we evaluate community attitudes and perceptions towards the Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) and bears (Ursus thibetanus and Ursus arctos), as well as their prey species, namely sika deer (Cervus nippon), roe deer and wild boar (Sus scrofa), in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin province, northeast China. We surveyed 139 households and found that community members’ perceptions of large carnivores and their prey species were influenced by their predominant economic activities; their prior interactions with wildlife; their household income level; and whether they were either long-term residents of Yanbian or had migrated to the region from elsewhere in China. We recorded fairly neutral attitudes towards large carnivores among the communities we surveyed, but strongly negative attitudes were shown towards wild boar, particularly where respondents had lost agricultural products to crop raiding by wild boar. We recommend conservation stakeholders in northeast China utilise this finding to encourage support for large carnivore recovery and conservation by targeting messaging around the importance of the tiger as a key predator of wild boar in the ecosystem. Furthermore, our findings suggest that government provided compensation paid for cattle lost to large carnivore predation (notably, by tigers) may be helping to reduce animosity from cattle owners towards large carnivores. However, we also highlight that compensation for loss of livestock is therefore performing a useful role in mitigating human-wildlife conflict, that there are potentially unintended consequences of the current compensation program, for example it fails to dissuade livestock grazing in protected areas.
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DOI：
10.3390/ani11041012
发表时间：
2021-04-03
期刊：
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI
影响因子：
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作者：
Jin Y;Kong W;Yan H;Bao G;Liu T;Ma Q;Li X;Zou H;Zhang M
通讯作者：
Zhang M
影响因子：
1.9
作者：
Gebo, Berhanu;Takele, Serekebirhan;Shibru, Simon
通讯作者：
Shibru, Simon
影响因子：
3.4
作者：
Kideghesho, Jafari R.;Roskaft, Eivin;Kaltenborn, Bjorn P.
通讯作者：
Kaltenborn, Bjorn P.
影响因子：
1.9
作者：
Frank, Jens;Johansson, Maria;Flykt, Anders
通讯作者：
Flykt, Anders
影响因子：
2.7
作者：
Dhungana, Rajendra;Savini, Tommaso;Bumrungsri, Sara
通讯作者：
Bumrungsri, Sara