Living with wolves: A worldwide systematic review of attitudes
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10.1007/s13280-024-02036-1Sammendrag
This systematic review of peer reviewed articles
on attitudes towards gray wolves (Canis lupus), shows that
attitudes are mainly measured either by mean values of
attitudes or by proportional differences in attitudes. This
may impact on how attitudes are perceived and interpreted
across studies and areas. However, independent of method
used, we found that people living in areas where wolves
always have existed, are more negative towards wolves
compared to people living in areas where there are no
wolves, or where wolves have recovered after years of
absence. People who express fear, or being directly
affected by having wolves, such as farmers and hunters,
report more negative attitudes compared to other groups of
respondents. For wolf conservation we recommend
politicians and management authorities to prepare local
societies of the different consequences of living in wolf
areas. We recommend using dialogues and conflict
management methods to minimize the level of conflicts.