Recovery of large carnivores in Europe's modern human-dominated landscapes

Chapron, Guillaume (author), Jerina, Klemen (author), Kos, Ivan (author), Krofel, Miha (author), Majić Skrbinšek, Aleksandra (author), Potočnik, Hubert (author), Skrbinšek, Tomaž (author)

The conservation of large carnivores represents a formidable challenge for biodiversity conservation. Using a dataset on the past and current status of brown bears (Ursus arctos), Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx), grey wolves (Canis lupus), and wolverines (Gulo gulo) in European countries, we show that roughly one-third of mainland Europe hosts at least one large carnivore species, with stable or increasing abundance in most cases in 21st-century records. The reasons for this overall conservation success include protective legislations, supportive public opinion as well as a variety of practices making coexistence between large carnivores and people possible. The European situation reveals that large carnivores and people can successfully share the same landscape.

• Language: English
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: BF - Biotechnical Faculty
• Number of pages: Str. 1517-1519
• Numbering: #Vol. #346, #iss. #6216
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-96697
• UDC: 630*15
• ISSN on article: 0036-8075
• DOI: 10.1126/science.1257553
• COBISS.SI-ID: 3996838
• Publication date in RUL: 11.10.2017

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Science
• Shortened title: Science
• Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
• ISSN: 0036-8075
• COBISS.SI-ID: 2908687

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Description: The most restrictive Creative Commons license. This only allows people to download and share the work for no commercial gain and for no other purposes.
• Licensing start date: 11.10.2017

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: large carnivores, conservation, Europe, Lynx lynx, Gulo gulo, Canis lupus, Ursus arctos