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How countries deal with bears in Europe

news24 JAE Wildlife damage to human properties is an important component of human-wildlife conflicts worldwide. Which populations are more “conflictive” and why are unresolved questions that need to be dealt at broad scales. The article authored by Carlos Bautista with a team of 23 European brown bear researchers “Patterns and correlates of claims for brown bear damage on a continental scale”, published in the Journal of Applied Ecology (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.12708/full), is the first study that tries to disentangle these questions on a continental scale by comparing different management units. Authors analyzed 18,300 compensated claims for damage caused by brown bears across 18 European regions with different socio-ecological conditions. On average, over 3200 claims of bear damage were annually compensated; 70% of them in 4 of the 18 studied regions, and 59% due to livestock losses. Authors found that compensation schemes, management practices like supplementary feeding, and agricultural cover, influenced the number of claims for bear damage,while bear abundance did not.

Link to the article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.12708/full

Fig. 1. Bear track stamped on the frame of beeswax from the damaged hive of apiaries in Slovenia (photo by Miha Krofel)