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Should wildlife biologists be involved in wildlife contraception research and management?
| Author: |
Warren, R.J. |
| Date: |
1995 |
| Periodical: |
Wildlife Society Bulletin |
| Abstract: |
Traditionally, active management of wildlife populations has used a variety of techniques (e.g. hunting, trapping, poisoning, relocation) to remove animals from a population to reduce density. Increasingly, these traditional management techniques are considered either impractical or publicly unacceptable (in urban and suburban areas or parks and nature reserves, for example). Therefore, at present, wildlife professionals have no new or specific capability to reduce overabundant populations in these situations. A common response from many wildlife agencies to requests for population control in such nontraditional situations has been to suggest traditional solutions or to offer technical assistance. If these responses are deemed unacceptable or inappropriate by the affected public, then the problem often is left unresolved. In situations where there are essentially no acceptable means of removing animals or decreasing survival rates to control populations, the only other demographic parameter to manipulate is reproduction. |
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