Cattle ranchers' attitudes to conflicts with jaguar Panthera onca in the Pantanal of Brazil

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Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 406-412

  Zimmermann, A ^a,b   Walpole, M J ^a,c   Leader Williams, N ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b CHESTER ZOO   (United Kingdom)

^c FAUNA AND FLORA INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^d DICE

Author keywords

Attitudes; Conservation strategies; Human wildlife conflict; Jaguars; Livestock predation; Pantanal; Panthera onca

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; FELID; LIVESTOCK FARMING; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; RANCHING;

PANTANAL; SOUTH AMERICA;

BOS TAURUS; PANTHERA ONCA;

EID: 29144447372     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605305000992     Document Type: Article

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