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Hunting habitat use and selection patterns of barn owl (Tyto alba) in the urban-agricultural setting of a prominent wine grape growing region of California
| Contributor(s):: Xeronimo A. Castaneda
Large scale conversion of uncultivated land to agriculture threatens wildlife and can diminish ecosystem services provided by nature. Understanding how wildlife provision ecosystem services may incentivize wildlife conservation in agricultural landscapes. Attracting barn owls (Tyto...
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Barriers to Sustainable Hunting-Based Conservation of Elephants in Zimbabwe
| Contributor(s):: Jessica H. Cusworth
The international demand for ivory has devastated African elephant populations. In 2015, more elephants were poached for ivory than were born. Many countries have sought to decrease poaching pressures through ivory trade bans. However, Zimbabwe, home to the second largest African elephant...
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Elk and Deer Hunters in Washington State: Affiliations and Ethical Behavior
| Contributor(s):: Isa O. Harrison
Elk and deer are particularly challenging natural resources to manage due to their mobility and the impacts of other species and humans both direct and indirect. A man-made lack of natural predators has created a need for hunting in order to control the population expansions of herds. Such...
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Prevalence of bacterial zoonoses in selected trophy hunted species, and the potential of human health risk in Bwabwata National park, Namibia
| Contributor(s):: Matheus-Auwa Ameya
Zoonotic diseases are infections acquired from vertebrate animals (wild or domesticated) animals to humans through direct or indirect contact with live animals, their derivatives or contaminated surroundings. The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of potential bacterial zoonoses...
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The Spectacular Environmentalism of Cecil the Lion
| Contributor(s):: McCubbin, Sandra Gillian
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Illegal Wildlife Hunting and Trade in Southern Belize: An Assessment of Impacts and Drivers
| Contributor(s):: Blakely Rice
The use of wildlife as a resource is a common practice in all countries around the world, however, illegal activities are contributing to various environmental and social altercations amongst the involved communities and individuals, both directly and indirectly. This has led to the generalized...
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Alternative Methods of Controlling Wildlife Populations
| Contributor(s):: Lindsay Aspin, Chantel McDowell, Rebecca Rocha, Julie M. Fagan
Every year New Jersey sets aside several days for a state-sponsored black bear hunt. We feel that this hunt is unnecessary, and that proper human behaviors will change black bear behavior, and ultimately decrease human-bear interactions. This way, humans are at peace, and bears are at peace, and...
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The impact of a wolf conservation project on attitudes of the public, hunters and farmers toward wolves in Slovenia
| Contributor(s):: Jasna Mulej Tlhaolang
For successful conservation of large carnivores, charismatic and controversial species, ensuring human tolerance is essential. Therefore, wolf conservation projects aim to improve both the biological and socio-political conditions. I used a mixed methods approach to explore the effectiveness of a...
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Ducks and Deer, Profit and Pleasure: Hunters, Games and the Natural Landscapes of Medieval Italy
| Contributor(s):: Cristina Arrigoni Martelli
This dissertation is an ample and thorough assessment of hunting in late medieval and Renaissance northern and central Italy. Hunting took place in a variety of landscapes and invested animal species. Both of these had been influenced by human activities for centuries. Hunting had deep cultural...
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The zooarchaeology of great house sites in the San Juan Basin of the American Southwest
| Contributor(s):: Shaw Badenhorst
This dissertation considers animal remains from great houses in the San Juan Basin of the American Southwest. The archaeofauna from an outlying great house, Albert Porter Pueblo in the central Mesa Verde region, occupied between Pueblo II and III (A.D. 1020-1280), indicates that turkey increased...
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Impacts of Montana Public Wolf Hunting and Trapping on Tolerance and Acceptance of Gray Wolves Among Rural Resident Ranchers, Trappers, and Big Game Hunters
| Contributor(s):: Alia Winn Mulder
The Public Trust Doctrine placed wildlife in trust, via state control and regulation, for the benefit of the people. Managing agencies that lose sight of the importance of public acceptance of predator policies and management actions may find themselves legislatively or judicially subverted. This...
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Brute compassion: The ambivalent growth of sympathy for animals in English literature and culture, 1671--1831
| Contributor(s):: Van de Merghel, Genevieve
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Killing to Save: Trophy Hunting and Conservation in Mongolia
| Contributor(s):: Lucy Page
Since transitioning to capitalism in 1990, Mongolia’s wildlife has faced growing threats from the development of infrastructure, increasing livestock populations, and the expansion of an illegal trade in wildlife products. As wildlife populations face these growing risks, Mongolia needs to...
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Philosophical-Legal Considerations for Ending Japanese Hunting of Small Cetaceans
| Contributor(s):: Emily Claire Sipes
Japan persists as one of the few countries in the world partaking in the hunting of cetaceans, the branch of the animal kingdom that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises. The International Whaling Commission’s 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling has established...
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From Arrows to Bullets: Sustainable Hunting, Fishing, and Trapping
| Contributor(s):: George S. Apostolopoulos
My thesis paper is on hunting, fishing, and trapping in the state of New York. In this thesis I will go over months of my own personal research and experience on the topic. I will provide information on wildlife populations and biodiversity, as I have recorded it over the last two years.When...
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Understanding Human-Large Carnivore Conflict in Chobe, Botswana
| Contributor(s):: Sahil Nijhawan
Large carnivores most often get in conflicts with people because they compete for resources that humans require-space and food. Throughout Africa, large carnivores have been eliminated or significantly reduced because of livestock predation. This study is part of the Large Carnivore Research...
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Bird-Watchers', Hunters', and Wildlife Professionals' Beliefs About the Importance and Management of Wildlife
| Contributor(s):: Daniel J. Witter
Since the early 1930's, calls have been made for a uniting of hunters and nonhunters in support of wildlife conservation in the public sector. Today, however, such an alliance remains largely unfounded, with government wildlife agencies continuing to depend heavily on sportsmen for financial...
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Impact of hunting pressure on adult male white-tailed deer behavior
| Contributor(s):: Gabriel Ryan Karns
The impact of hunting pressure on white-tailed deer behavior has been broadly studied, but specific examination of the interaction between adult males and hunters has not been conducted using global positioning system (GPS) technology. During 2006-2007 at Chesapeake Farms, a privately owned...
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Explaining animal poaching among adolescent males using social learning theory
| Contributor(s):: Green, Egan Kyle
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A wild web: The tangled history of attitudes toward wildlife in a dynamic New England culture, 1945--1985
| Contributor(s):: Hopkins, Mary H.
