Paying for an Endangered Predator Leads to Population Recovery

摘要: Keeping viable predator populations on a human-dominated planet will require innovative approaches that promote local coexistence with human activities. Conservation performance payments, which are linked specifically to the production of desired environmental output, have received increasing attention but their effectiveness in conservation remains undocumented. Here, we show paying Sami reindeer herders for wolverine (Gulo gulo) reproductions has been instrumental recovery wolverines Sweden. Adult female were significantly less exposed illegal killing and this allowed population more than double decade. We argue program provides protection adult through combination direct monetary value indirect because monitoring The program's success, even system where livestock is main prey predator, reveals an exceptional potential future implementations large carnivore conservation.