The Apennine Brown Bear: A Critical Review of Its Status and Conservation Problems

摘要: Abstract The small and isolated population of brown bears (Ursus arctos marsicanus) in the Central Apennines, Italy, has been protected since establishment National Park Abruzzo, Lazio Molise 1923, but little active management implemented during past decades to ensure effective conservation this population. Being almost exclusively distributed within its immediate surrounding mountains, Apennine bear suffered high human-caused mortality last 3 decades, no reliable estimates size, trends, vital statistics have ever produced. Given paucity information available at international level, we critically reviewed status summarized data concerning management. By describing threats that appear be most (lack knowledge, persistent illegal killing, administrative fragment...