Study

Bear relocations to avoid bear/sheep conflicts

  • Published source details Armistead A.R., Mitchell K. & Connolly G.E. (1994) Bear relocations to avoid bear/sheep conflicts. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Vertebrate Pest Conference, University of California, Davis, 31–35.

Actions

This study is summarised as evidence for the following.

Action Category

Translocate predators away from livestock to reduce human-wildlife conflict

Action Link
Terrestrial Mammal Conservation
  1. Translocate predators away from livestock to reduce human-wildlife conflict

    A study in 1989–1992 of forest and meadow in an area of Oregon, USA (Armistead et al. 1994) found that black bears Ursus americanus translocated away from areas with histories of bear attacks on sheep were not subsequently involved in livestock predation. None of five radio-collared, translocated bears was involved in sheep predation during the monitoring period (≤1 year). However, four of the bears died during that period (three were shot and one found dead) and one either moved away or its radio-collar malfunctioned. Sixteen bears were translocated in 1990 and five in 1991 from areas where five bears had been killed in 1989 to protect livestock. Bears were released ≤20 miles from capture sites. Bears translocated in 1991 were radio-collared. One was monitored for approximately one year. The others were monitored for shorter, unspecified, periods.

    (Summarised by: Nick Littlewood)

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