9.1 Unit Textbooks

 

Textbooks
Anderson (1991) Chapter 22 - Animal Damage

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9.2 Topics covered

• When is Wildlife Overabundant?
• Attitudes towards Animal Damage
• Causes of Animal Damage
• Animal Damage Programmes

• Documentation of Loss
• Animal Damage
• Agricultural Loss
• Other Losses
• Choice of Control

• Forms of Management
• Habitat Alteration
• Population Management
• Trapping & Removal
• Use of Chemicals
• Exclosures
• Biological Control
• Husbandry
• Cultural
• Noise Makers

• Causes of Managing Animal - Damage Problems
• Birds & Aircraft
• Rats & Coconuts
• Vampire Bats & Cattle
• Cocrico and Vegetable Gardens
• Green Monkeys and Food Crop Production

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9.3 Zoo and Wildlife Management - Managing Overabundant Species: Human wildlife conflict mitigation

 

Basis of conflicts
Human induced changes on the landscape imply a reduction in habitats for wildlife and increase the opportunity for conflict between humans and other species.

 

Concerns

• Zoonoses
• Crop damage/garden depredation
• Dangerous species

Special Cases

• Island ecosystems:
• Ecological saturation, resiliency and human disturbance.

Types of Overabundance

Natural species irruption:

• R-selected species (e.g. coloniser species) Species response to extraordinary environmental event

Human induced irruption:

• Land use transformations
• Artificial feeding

Perceived over-abundance:

• Species within normal population limits, but human perception suggests over abundance.

Management considerations

Species identification:
Which species?

 

Biology of the Species:
R-selected?
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