Variation and conservation implications of the effectiveness of anti-bear interventions.

ABSTRACT: Human-bear conflicts triggered by nuisance behaviour in public places and damage to livestock, crops, beehives and trees are among the main threats to bear populations globally. The effectiveness of interventions used to minimize bear-caused damage is insufficiently known and comparative reviews are lacking. We conducted a meta-analysis of 77 cases from 48 publications and used the relative risk of damage to compare the effectiveness of non-invasive interventions, invasive management (translocations) and lethal control (shooting) against bears. We show that the most effective interventions are electric fences (95% confidence interval = 79.2-100% reduction in damage), calving control (100%) and livestock replacement (99.8%), but the latter two approaches were applied in only one case each a

SUBMITTER: Khorozyan I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7501236 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature