Briefing Book
Carnivores & Coexistence Briefing Book
July 28, 2023
Issue Area
Wildlife Coexistence and Conflict Reduction
Overview
As climate change and land development bring humans and wildlife into closer contact, finding ways to coexist and reduce conflict is more urgent than ever. Coexistence means helping people and wildlife share landscapes in a way that harms neither and provides benefits to both. Coexistence solutions include bear-wise trash storage, beaver pond levelers, wildlife-friendly fencing, and more. With much of wildlife policy decided by states, state lawmakers have unique opportunities to prevent needless conflict and help communities enjoy benefits of living alongside wildlife.
Key Facts
Carnivores help shape nearly every aspect of an ecosystem, from keeping prey populations balanced, to impacting plant growth and riparian river systems by dispersing herbivores and small carnivores, to reducing animal disease breakouts in ungulates and other animals.
64% of large terrestrial carnivores are threatened with extinction, and 80% have declining population trends. Large carnivores have lost 60% of their habitat in the last several centuries.
There is no scientific evidence that mass killing of predators serves to protect livestock.
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