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Social and Ecological Feasibility of a European Wildcat Felis Silvestris Reintroduction /

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Social and Ecological Feasibility of a European Wildcat Felis Silvestris Reintroduction // Thomas Dando.
作者:	Dando, Thomas,
面頁冊數:	1 electronic resource (247 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International86-04A.
標題:	Environmental restoration. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=31626635
ISBN:	9798342150224

Social and Ecological Feasibility of a European Wildcat Felis Silvestris Reintroduction /
Dando, Thomas,

Social and Ecological Feasibility of a European Wildcat Felis Silvestris Reintroduction /Thomas Dando. - 1 electronic resource (247 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-04, Section: A.

The restoration of species is increasingly seen as important for conservation though it is often contentious. To be delivered successfully, species reintroductions require in-depth knowledge and effective planning and assessment of their social, ecological and practical feasibility.In this thesis, I conduct social and ecological research towards assessing the feasibility of reintroducing the European wildcat (Felis silvestris). Wildcats have been regionally extinct from England and Wales for over 150 years, and their reintroduction provides a compelling case study with which to explore and address key gaps in knowledge. I achieve this by taking a multi-disciplinary approach towards key issues including best-practice in social feasibility, stakeholder acceptance, site suitability, domestic cat interactions/hybridisation, and long-term population viability. Together this thesis provides an evidence base from which to inform and develop the next stages of reintroduction planning for the wildcat, as well as providing insight and direction to practitioners interested in reintroduction and conservation more broadly.I begin by conducting the first global review of translocation literature to assess if, how and when assessments of social feasibility are conducted and use this to propose best practices in their implementation. I find that fewer than half of translocations conducted between 1922 and 2019 assessed social feasibility, and those that did tended to conduct narrow assessments focused on quantitative accounts of community attitudes. I argue that more comprehensive social feasibility assessments conducted early in planning could help address conflicts and improve outcomes, but that barriers, including insufficient expertise and prioritisation of ecological over social factors, persist. Successful projects are shown to make long-term commitments between implementing organisations, affected communities, and partners across sectors, improving resilience and outcomes. This work informs approaches to translocation planning as well as the use of the IUCN reintroduction guidelines.I then conduct two in-depth analyses, using semi-structured interviews, of two key stakeholder groups in the reintroduction of wildcats; farmers and cat owners. For both stakeholder groups, knowledge and awareness of wildcats as a native species is shown to be low, resulting in perceived costs and benefits being exacerbated and often not grounded in evidence. More broadly, the sampled farmers emphasise a distrust toward conservation, driven in part by a perceived anti-farmer narrative pursued by a few individuals in the media. Moreover, conservation is viewed as removed from the landscapes and communities it seeks to engage, with interviewees highlighting the value of face-to-face interactions and having an accessible presence as important to developing relationships. Among cat owners, I find a lack of consensus over who is, or should be, responsible for unowned cats. I propose the need for collaboration among a broad group of stakeholders to develop management strategies for unowned cats in the context of wildcat restoration and suggest a focus on cat welfare in communicating this. These interviews provide important insight into wildcat restoration but also key topics in conservation, namely, the perspectives of farmers on conservation practices and consequently the impact of this on conservation delivery, and the management of unowned cats.

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ISBN: 9798342150224Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Environmental restoration.

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