Resolving human-flying fox conflict in the face of environmental change

面对环境变化，解决人类与飞狐的冲突。该项目旨在确定社会可接受的优先领域，在不断变化的气候下对狐蝠的长期生存能力进行管理，并在决策理论框架内利用生态和社会分析制定缓解人类与狐蝠冲突的策略。狐蝠是国家保护的哺乳动物，对澳大利亚的森林生态系统至关重要，但它们受到栖息地丧失、极端天气和果园合法捕杀的威胁。它们特殊的流动性使它们经常与人类住区发生冲突，导致它们被迫离开栖息地。预期的结果是保护澳大利亚的狐蝠，以及国际上对如何解决人类与高度流动的物种之间的冲突的理解，这些物种受到威胁，但在当地丰富且有争议。

Resolving human-flying fox conflict in the face of environmental change. This project aims to identify socially-acceptable priority areas to be managed for the long-term viability of flying-foxes under a changing climate, and develop strategies to mitigate human-flying fox conflict, using ecological and social analysis in a decision-theoretic framework. Flying-foxes are nationally protected mammals pivotal to Australia’s forest ecosystems, but are threatened by habitat loss, extreme weather and legal culls at orchards. Their exceptional mobility puts them in frequent conflict with human settlements, leading to forced dispersals from roosts. Anticipated outcomes are the conservation of Australia’s flying-foxes and international understanding of how to resolve human conflict with highly mobile species that are threatened but locally abundant and controversial.