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    Love Off, Fear On? Brown Bear Acceptance by Teenagers in European Countries with Differing Population Statuses
    (Mdpi, 2020) Balciauskas, Linas; Ambarli, Hueseyin; Balciauskiene, Laima; Bagrade, Guna; Kazlauskas, Martynas; Ozolins, Janis; Zunna, Agrita
    The acceptance of large carnivores is one of the key issues for their conservation. We analyzed the level acceptance of brown bears (Ursus arctos Linnaeus, 1758) amongst 10-18 year old school students in four European countries using anonymous questionnaires. Our aim was to characterize the drivers of species acceptance, described as a rural-urban cline, as well as fear levels and the respondents' familiarity with bears. We found lower levels of acceptance of bears were related to fear of bears and that bear acceptance was not higher in the bear-inhabited countries, but urban inhabitants tended to better accept the species. Factor analysis revealed the importance of country-related aspects, familiarity with bears, experiences in human-wildlife conflict, gender-age differences, respondent's relationship to nature and the origin of their knowledge of the species. We consider that bear-related education and mass media in Latvia and Lithuania could reduce fear of these animals and sustain their acceptance, while human-wildlife conflict management measures in Bulgaria and Turkey are recommended to boost the appreciation of the species.
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    Trophy hunting is not one big thing
    (Springer, 2023) Hare, Darragh; Ambarli, Hueseyin; Dickman, Amy J.; Droge, Egil; Farhidinia, Mohammad S.; Johnson, Paul J.; Khanyari, Munib
    Few topics in wildlife conservation are as controversial, emotive, or command as much public and political attention, as trophy hunting. International discourses regarding trophy hunting are characterised by radically contradictory assertions, ranging from claims that trophy hunting is a humane and socially acceptable wildlife management tool which benefits more animals than it kills, to claims that it is cruel, socially unacceptable, and drives species to extinction. So, which is it? We argue that using a single, blanket term trophy hunting obscures substantial and important variation in how and why people pay to hunt and keep trophies. Consequently, polarised disagreements over whether trophy hunting is good or bad, acceptable or unacceptable, beneficial or harmful, conflate arguments about fundamentally different activities. We urge conservation scientists and practitioners, politicians, journalists, and advocates on all sides to communicate more clearly and carefully about which specific hunting activities they believe are right or wrong, beneficial or harmful, acceptable or unacceptable, to whom, and for what reasons.