Bringing Large Mammals Back: Large Carnivores in Europe

摘要: The last century has seen a dramatic reversal in the status of large carnivores Europe. A suite co-occurring factors permitted large-scale recovery most populations. We currently recognise 10 populations each species, which are transboundary nature. sizes these vary from some tens to many thousand, with current estimates being around 17,000 bears, 10,000 wolves and lynx Europe (excluding Russia). As situation moves averting extinction planning it is logical ask how far can go, what our conservation goals should be, especially light emerging rewilding discourse. For variety ecological, practical strategic reasons, seems unlikely that restoring “wilderness” or “natural ecological processes” (in sense human activity influence excluded) will serve as general models for carnivore on scale. suggest focus developing “coexistence” model aims create sustainable interaction between humans by encouraging species very areas European landscape, development wide range processes, including predation scavenging, while accepting all trophic levels pervasive, legitimate, necessary often even desirable. This constitutes desire new form relationship wildness never existed before, therefore does not fall within conventional meanings paradigm.