by Mongabay.com on
5 November 2018
New research maps out the
potential risk “hotspots” for black bear-human conflict based on an analysis of
conditions that led to nearly 400 bear deaths between 1997 and 2013.
The study area covered the Lake
Tahoe Basin and the Great Basin Desert in western Nevada.
The methods used to predict risks
based on environmental variables could help wildlife managers identify and
mitigate human-carnivore conflict in other parts of the world, the authors
write.
Scientists have mapped out
instances of human-black bear conflict in a part of the U.S. state of Nevada
where bears are returning decades after they vanished.
The results of their analyses,
reported in the October issue of the journal Global Ecology and Conservation,
could help wildlife managers identify specific sites where this type of
conflict is more likely in the future, potentially allowing them to avert the
deaths of black bears as a result.
“Ultimately the goal of
conservation is to have more individuals of species like bears and other
carnivores on landscapes like we have accomplished in the Great Basin, but we
then have to understand how to limit their mortality that results from
conflicts with humans,” conservation scientist and study co-author Jon
Beckmann, who directs the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Rocky Mountain West
program, said in a statement.
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