Sheep farming and large carnivores: What are the factors influencing claimed losses?

摘要: Large carnivore populations are recovering in many parts of the world and this generates conflicts with humans, notably terms livestock depredation. Governmental programs mitigation measures compensation for losses often implemented to reduce conflicts, but factors affecting poorly understood. We used 11 years data on domestic sheep (Ovis aries) claimed, confirmed, have been killed by predators Norway evaluate how predator density, flock management, other environmental or habitat-related variables related losses. The percentage animals claimed as lost that was found confirmed large (i.e., detection rate) low, especially Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx), wolverine (Gulo gulo) golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos). Still, we generally similar predicted number claims carcasses across species. Predator density strongly asso...