Managing the Carnivore Comeback: International and EU Species Protection Law and the Return of Lynx, Wolf and Bear to Western Europe.

摘要: Lynx, wolves and brown bears are returning to areas in Western Europe from which they have long been absent. This raises specific questions, not only concerning the effective conservation of transboundary carnivore populations, but also regarding potential consequences for livestock, hunting, human safety like. Intense popular debates tend ensue wherever large predators reappear. The response by public authorities, however, must respect limits imposed international European nature obligations. article is intended bring these into focus introducing analyzing relevant species protection regimes, chiefly Bern Convention Union’s Habitats Directive. Legal issues addressed status, prohibitions, derogations management plans. Also interesting predicament ‘frontier states’ like Netherlands, seem provide ultimate test case adaptive capacity carnivores law alike.