Amargosa Vole Recovery Team Partnership
Chris Otahal, BLM Wildlife Biologist Barstow Field Office California
Bringing Social Values to Wildlife Conservation Decisions
Sustainable conservation of wildlife is contingent upon the human context in which it occurs. Humans regularly exert a powerful influence on the survival and persistence of species, yet social-science information is used only sporadically in conservation decisions. Using data obtained from a survey of 46,894 US residents, we developed and applied a spatially explicit “sociocultural […]
America’s Wildlife Values: The Social Context of Wildlife Management in the U.S.
The purpose of the America’s Wildlife Values Project was to assess the social context of wildlife management in the U.S. to understand the growing conflict around wildlife management. It is the first study of its kind to describe how U.S. residents within and across all 50 states think about wildlife, and how changing perspectives shape […]
