Attitudes towards large carnivore speceis in the West Catpathians: Shifts in public perception and media content after the return of the wolf and the bear
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Attitudes towards large carnivore speceis in the West Catpathians: Shifts in public perception and media content after the return of the wolf and the bear
Original language description
The recovery of populations of grey wolf (Canis lupus) and brown bear (Ursus arctos) in Central Europe offers an exceptional opportunity for studying people's perception of large carnivores in changing conditions. In our study, we focused on attitudes of local people and visitors towards large carnivores in the West Carpathians. We showed that: (1) most respondents in both target groups had neutral or positive attitudes toward large carnivore occurrence; however, positive attitudes were significantly more often expressed by visitors, younger and more educated people, and people with no relation to livestock breeders; (2) the number of people with a negative disposition towards wolves decreased over time following the recovery of carnivore populations, but the number of people with a positive attitude did not change considerably; (3) the number of media articles expressing a purely positive perspective of wolves and bears increased over time, at the expense of articles expressing a purely or mainly negative perspective on wolves. The overall change in public perspective coincided with activities related to the prevention of conflicts, communication with media, and public awareness campaigns, as well as decreasing number of conflicts. People with neutral opinions could shift their position back to more negative views, should the extent of conflicts increase in the future.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10619 - Biodiversity conservation
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Large Carnivore Conservation and Management: Human Dimensions
ISBN
978-1-138-03999-5
Number of pages of the result
22
Pages from-to
168-189
Number of pages of the book
345
Publisher name
Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Place of publication
Abingdon
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