Livestock-Carnivore Coexistence: Moving beyond Preventive Killing.

ABSTRACT: Livestock predation is a global problem and constitutes the main source of conflict between large carnivores and human interests. In Latin America, both jaguar and puma are known to prey on livestock, yet studies in Mesoamerica have been scattered and few have been carried out in Honduras. We interviewed ranchers in a biosphere reserve where jaguars and pumas are present. Local indigenous communities reported livestock predation (average annual loss of 7% from 2010-2019), with preventive and retaliatory killing as their main actions against predation by the jaguar and puma. Other sources of cattle loss included diseases and theft. The extensive management system (free grazing) lets cattle access forests where predators are more common. We found that livestock predation is not random, but r

SUBMITTER: Chinchilla S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8868381 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature