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| Hoogesteijn, R.; Hoogesteijn, A. | |
| Conserving wild felids in humanized landscapes. Strategies for reducing conflicts between jaguars and cattle | |
| 2010 Wild Felid Monitor (3): 1-5 | |
The need to include private property in conservation programs for large felids in the Americas is a necessary reality. For this reason, conservation professionals need to work with ranchers and landowners. Fortunately, we have a battery of strategies available to reduce cattle predation by large felines that, if correctly implemented, could develop support for felid protection among cattle ranchers. The importance of jaguars in Central and South American culture and traditions increases the likelihood that many ranchers will cooperate in this endeavor. We cannot stress enough the importance of understanding the particular ecological setting of each ranch, the rancher, the management and herd conditions as well as the legal and political settings related to wildlife and the meat industry in each country. All these factors have to be contemplated in the implementation of the cattle predation reduction agenda to achieve its objective. However, in our experience the most important ingredient to success is a non-judgmental and cooperative approach to a sector of society that makes its living from beef production and who has no obligation (beyond the one each human being has to the other inhabitants of planet Earth) to assume a responsibility which should be on a society as a whole. |
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