Is landscape-scale wild dog control the best practice?

摘要: ABSTRACTLandscape-scale lethal control, achieved through better coordination of, and greater participation in, control programs is promoted as the best-practice solution to Australia’s wild dog problem. Three issues obstruct attempts manage dogs at this scale. Firstly, are framed serious predators of livestock in general when many beef producers non-livestock enterprises unaffected or only sometimes affected by dogs. The involvement all landholders considered crucial its success a landscape Secondly, short-lived variable efficacy immigration including from long-distance dispersal frustrate suppress maintain low densities Finally, can have positive, neutral benign impacts for stakeholders. This makes landscape-scale very difficult achieve. Framed sheep goats calv...