Assessing social perceptions of rewilding approaches in Spain using traditional domestic livestock

Rewilding is habitat restoration that attempts to return ecosystems to their state before human alterations were imposed. Rewilding might involve actions that are not desired by society. As a result, a compromised form of rewilding has been proposed that is generally known as rewilding lite, which i...

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Autores: Pérez-Barbería, Francisco J., Gordon, Iain J.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Palabra clave:Abandoned agricultural landscapes
Stakeholder perception
Biology conservation
Spain
Ecosystem services
Restoration
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Assessing social perceptions of rewilding approaches in Spain using traditional domestic livestock
title Assessing social perceptions of rewilding approaches in Spain using traditional domestic livestock
spellingShingle Assessing social perceptions of rewilding approaches in Spain using traditional domestic livestock
Pérez-Barbería, Francisco J.
Abandoned agricultural landscapes
Stakeholder perception
Biology conservation
Spain
Ecosystem services
Restoration
title_short Assessing social perceptions of rewilding approaches in Spain using traditional domestic livestock
title_full Assessing social perceptions of rewilding approaches in Spain using traditional domestic livestock
title_fullStr Assessing social perceptions of rewilding approaches in Spain using traditional domestic livestock
title_full_unstemmed Assessing social perceptions of rewilding approaches in Spain using traditional domestic livestock
title_sort Assessing social perceptions of rewilding approaches in Spain using traditional domestic livestock
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Pérez-Barbería, Francisco J.
Gordon, Iain J.
author Pérez-Barbería, Francisco J.
author_facet Pérez-Barbería, Francisco J.
Gordon, Iain J.
author_role author
author2 Gordon, Iain J.
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha
European Commission
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)
Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España)
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Abandoned agricultural landscapes
Stakeholder perception
Biology conservation
Spain
Ecosystem services
Restoration
topic Abandoned agricultural landscapes
Stakeholder perception
Biology conservation
Spain
Ecosystem services
Restoration
description Rewilding is habitat restoration that attempts to return ecosystems to their state before human alterations were imposed. Rewilding might involve actions that are not desired by society. As a result, a compromised form of rewilding has been proposed that is generally known as rewilding lite, which involves some human intervention to achieve the goals of a more natural state of ecosystems that were historically disturbed by anthropogenic influences. Rewilding lite is gaining traction in Europe where marginal agriculture areas are being abandoned. We addressed a variant that we called livestock rewilding (LR) based on the use of herbivorous livestock species to restore ecological functions and trophic complexity (functional integrity) in abandoned agricultural landscapes. Our objective was to assess societal attitudes and awareness of LR in Spain based on the answers of 1,036 respondents of a self-selecting questionnaire of 27 closed-ended questions addressed to the general public using snowball sampling, conducted between March and July 2021. Seventy-five percent of the respondents supported LR but only on the condition of imposing minimum hazards to people, crops, and property. Ranchers were the least likely societal group to support LR (58%). Women had the greatest enthusiasm for LR (79% women vs. 71% men). Horses, donkeys, and goats were the most preferred species to be included in LR programs, with pigs as the least popular after cattle and sheep. There was support for the removal of excess individuals of rewilded livestock and for the use of their meat for human consumption, especially among male respondents. Respondents were reticent to accept mortality in LR populations caused by natural stochastic events and discriminated between livestock species for population control methods. Respondents preferred non-lethal methods of population control; involving hunters was a second choice. Some hunters were reluctant to participate in population control of rewilded livestock, especially if they had to pay, and were reticent to shoot equids but keen to shoot goats. There was general support among Spanish respondents for LR, though there were significant differences between societal groups in attitudes towards the type, species, and intensity of management required to minimize hazards to people's health, crops, and the environment. Livestock rewilding is a plausible tool for the restoration of trophic complexity in abandoned agricultural land in Spain that could be used to circumvent the introduction of allochthonous wild species.
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Pérez-Barbería FJ, & Gordon IJ. (2023). Assessing social perceptions of rewilding approaches in Spain using traditional domestic livestock [Data set]. En Journal of Wildlife Management. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7890602
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spelling Assessing social perceptions of rewilding approaches in Spain using traditional domestic livestockPérez-Barbería, Francisco J.Gordon, Iain J.Abandoned agricultural landscapesStakeholder perceptionBiology conservationSpainEcosystem servicesRestorationRewilding is habitat restoration that attempts to return ecosystems to their state before human alterations were imposed. Rewilding might involve actions that are not desired by society. As a result, a compromised form of rewilding has been proposed that is generally known as rewilding lite, which involves some human intervention to achieve the goals of a more natural state of ecosystems that were historically disturbed by anthropogenic influences. Rewilding lite is gaining traction in Europe where marginal agriculture areas are being abandoned. We addressed a variant that we called livestock rewilding (LR) based on the use of herbivorous livestock species to restore ecological functions and trophic complexity (functional integrity) in abandoned agricultural landscapes. Our objective was to assess societal attitudes and awareness of LR in Spain based on the answers of 1,036 respondents of a self-selecting questionnaire of 27 closed-ended questions addressed to the general public using snowball sampling, conducted between March and July 2021. Seventy-five percent of the respondents supported LR but only on the condition of imposing minimum hazards to people, crops, and property. Ranchers were the least likely societal group to support LR (58%). Women had the greatest enthusiasm for LR (79% women vs. 71% men). Horses, donkeys, and goats were the most preferred species to be included in LR programs, with pigs as the least popular after cattle and sheep. There was support for the removal of excess individuals of rewilded livestock and for the use of their meat for human consumption, especially among male respondents. Respondents were reticent to accept mortality in LR populations caused by natural stochastic events and discriminated between livestock species for population control methods. Respondents preferred non-lethal methods of population control; involving hunters was a second choice. Some hunters were reluctant to participate in population control of rewilded livestock, especially if they had to pay, and were reticent to shoot equids but keen to shoot goats. There was general support among Spanish respondents for LR, though there were significant differences between societal groups in attitudes towards the type, species, and intensity of management required to minimize hazards to people's health, crops, and the environment. Livestock rewilding is a plausible tool for the restoration of trophic complexity in abandoned agricultural land in Spain that could be used to circumvent the introduction of allochthonous wild species.This work was supported by the Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha (grant number SBPLY-19-180501-000115) and Plan Estatal de Política Científica y Técnica y de Innovación (Spain) programme Beatriz Galindo 2020 (grant number CNU-692-2019) and Proyectos Estratégicos Orientados a la Transición Ecológica y a la Transición Digital, NextGeneration EU (grant number TED2021-131388B-I00).Peer reviewedWiley-VCHJunta de Comunidades de Castilla-La ManchaEuropean CommissionMinisterio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España)Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]202420242023info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/353438reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Inglés#PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE#info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI//TED2021-131388B-I00The underlying dataset has been published as supplementary material of the article in the publisher platform at DOI 10.1002/jwmg.22425Pérez-Barbería FJ, & Gordon IJ. (2023). Assessing social perceptions of rewilding approaches in Spain using traditional domestic livestock [Data set]. En Journal of Wildlife Management. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7890602https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.22425Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/3534382026-05-22T06:33:51Z
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