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Coexisting with Large Carnivores: Lessons from Greater Yellowstone.(Book review)

Publication: Endangered Species Update
Publication Date: 01-JUL-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Coexisting with Large Carnivores: Lessons from Greater Yellowstone Edited by Tim W. Clark, Murray B. Rutherford & Denise Casey Island Press, Washington, DC 2005

Large mammalian predators form a basis for much conservation research for several reasons. As a group, they are: land dependent,...

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...and thus more extinction-prone than most other organisms; can frequently serve as both flagship and umbrella species; and, they are scary. The last has inspired mythologies from cultures worldwide and continues to do so in places where these species still occur. For any conservation issue and for any species of concern, it is well accepted that science alone, while essential, will not solve the core of the problem. The crux of decline and endangerment lies in species' interactions with humans and thus solutions will necessarily involve input from the social and policy sciences.

Tim Clark has built his professional career on the last point, and it is an important one. Yellowstone National Park itself is a symbol, as are the three large predators that inhabit its vastness: grizzlies (Ursus arctos), wolves (Canis lupus) and...

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