Annotated Bibliography: The Conservation Of Large Carnivores

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The conservation of large carnivores requires the social integration through incentive programs to help reduce livestock predation and to increase the density of wild prey (Mishra et al. 2003), in addition to transfer scientific information about biology of felids in order to raise awareness and change the negative perceptions that allows changing attitudes (Kellert 1996, Lauber et al. 2002, Schneller et al. 2013). Education programs are strategy considered by several authors to carnivore conservation showing effective results for conservation (Duvall and Zint 2007, Dunn et al. 2008, Marchini 2010, Vaughan et al. 2010, Espinosa y Jacobson 2011, Romero et al. 2014).

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