Between conflict and reciprocal habituation: Human-wild boar coexistence in urban areas
Urbanization is an ongoing global environmental change. Wildlife may respond using anthropized environments and resources, which is known as synurbization, creating human-wildlife interactions. Wild boar (Sus scrofa) populations have become common in urban areas, including the metropolitan area of B...
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Between conflict and reciprocal habituation: Human-wild boar coexistence in urban areas |
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Between conflict and reciprocal habituation: Human-wild boar coexistence in urban areas Conejero, Carles Coexistence Human-wildlife conflict Socio-ecology |
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Conejero, Carles González‑Crespo, Carlos Fatjó, Jaume Castillo-Contreras, Raquel Serrano, Emmanuel Lavín, Santiago Mentaberre García, Gregorio López-Olvera, Jorge Ramón |
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Conejero, Carles González‑Crespo, Carlos Fatjó, Jaume Castillo-Contreras, Raquel Serrano, Emmanuel Lavín, Santiago Mentaberre García, Gregorio López-Olvera, Jorge Ramón |
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Urbanization is an ongoing global environmental change. Wildlife may respond using anthropized environments and resources, which is known as synurbization, creating human-wildlife interactions. Wild boar (Sus scrofa) populations have become common in urban areas, including the metropolitan area of Barcelona. Humans respond to wild boars in urban environments either habituating, with lower conflict perception and higher wild boar acceptance, or sensitizing, with reduced tolerance towards wild boars. Since citizen response influences conflict management, this study analysed the drivers of human responses, which should allow adopting socially-accepted measures to manage synurbic wild boar populations. Interviews to 1956 Barcelona citizens were performed, grouping the response variables to score citizen and urban characteristics, as well as citizen lay-knowledge, emotions, experiences, and perception of wild boar. Five citizen clusters were identified: cluster 1 (3.3 %), highly habituated and active wild boar feeder; cluster 2 (11.3 %), habituated to wild boars with positive feelings; cluster 3 (19.8 %), not habituated nor sensitized, willing to maintain urban wild boar populations; cluster 4 (29.1 %), sensitized and concerned, defending to reduce wild boar; and cluster 5 (40.1 %), highly sensitized and proposing to reduce or even eliminate wild boar. Positive attitudes associated wild boar to aesthetic value, closeness to nature and sympathy, and were more frequent in young citizens with urban background and high education, animal lovers habituated to wild boar through contact without negative experiences. Conversely, negative attitudes were concerned about city fouling, safety or health, accepted lethal management measures, and were more frequent in older citizens with rural background, lower education, low contact with wild boar or sensitized through negative experiences. We document for the first time the sensitization and reciprocal habituation of humans to wild boar in urban areas. The identification of the drivers of citizen attitudes towards urban wildlife should be useful to design socially-accepted management measures. |
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Between conflict and reciprocal habituation: Human-wild boar coexistence in urban areasConejero, CarlesGonzález‑Crespo, CarlosFatjó, JaumeCastillo-Contreras, RaquelSerrano, EmmanuelLavín, SantiagoMentaberre García, GregorioLópez-Olvera, Jorge RamónCoexistenceHuman-wildlife conflictSocio-ecologyUrbanization is an ongoing global environmental change. Wildlife may respond using anthropized environments and resources, which is known as synurbization, creating human-wildlife interactions. Wild boar (Sus scrofa) populations have become common in urban areas, including the metropolitan area of Barcelona. Humans respond to wild boars in urban environments either habituating, with lower conflict perception and higher wild boar acceptance, or sensitizing, with reduced tolerance towards wild boars. Since citizen response influences conflict management, this study analysed the drivers of human responses, which should allow adopting socially-accepted measures to manage synurbic wild boar populations. Interviews to 1956 Barcelona citizens were performed, grouping the response variables to score citizen and urban characteristics, as well as citizen lay-knowledge, emotions, experiences, and perception of wild boar. Five citizen clusters were identified: cluster 1 (3.3 %), highly habituated and active wild boar feeder; cluster 2 (11.3 %), habituated to wild boars with positive feelings; cluster 3 (19.8 %), not habituated nor sensitized, willing to maintain urban wild boar populations; cluster 4 (29.1 %), sensitized and concerned, defending to reduce wild boar; and cluster 5 (40.1 %), highly sensitized and proposing to reduce or even eliminate wild boar. Positive attitudes associated wild boar to aesthetic value, closeness to nature and sympathy, and were more frequent in young citizens with urban background and high education, animal lovers habituated to wild boar through contact without negative experiences. Conversely, negative attitudes were concerned about city fouling, safety or health, accepted lethal management measures, and were more frequent in older citizens with rural background, lower education, low contact with wild boar or sensitized through negative experiences. We document for the first time the sensitization and reciprocal habituation of humans to wild boar in urban areas. The identification of the drivers of citizen attitudes towards urban wildlife should be useful to design socially-accepted management measures.We thank the eight surveyors from the Ajuntament de Barcelona and especially thanks to Anna Serra, Enric Vall`es and Carme Mat´e for their coordination and support on this project. The ideas and discussion by Clara Pretus, from the Department of Psychiatry and Forensic Medicine (Affinity Foundation Chair for Animals and Health) of the Universitat Autonoma ` de Barcelona, and Aníbal Arregui, from the Departament d'Antropologia Social, Universitat de Barcelona, were much appreciated and contributed to improve the manuscript. The authors are grateful to the Ajuntament de Barcelona, who provided funding through the con tracts 13/051, 15/0174, 16/0243 and 16/0243-00-PR/01. The Secre taria d'Universitats i Recerca del Departament d'Economia i Coneixement de la Generalitat de Catalunya and the European Social Fund funded Raquel Castillo-Contreras through the grant numbers 2016FI_B 00425, 2017FI_B1 00040 and 2018FI_B2_00030. Emmanuel Serrano was supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia Innovacion ´ y Universidades (MICINN) through a Ramon y Cajal agreement (RYC2016-21120).Elsevier2024info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173258https://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/467009reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésReproducció del document publicat a https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173258Science of The Total Environment, 2024, vol. 936, 173258cc-by-nc-nd (c) Carles Conejero et al., 2024Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/oai:recercat.cat:10459.1/4670092026-05-29T05:05:01Z |
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