Understanding public perceptions helps wildlife management authorities and conservationists gauge the level of acceptance or opposition to the presence of lynx in specific regions. Within the LIFE Lynx project, we had the unique opportunity to study the attitudes of different stakeholder groups (general public, hunters, and livestock breeders) before, during, and after translocation of 18 animals from Romania and Slovakia to Slovenia...
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Understanding the attitudes of stakeholder groups is crucial in conservation of large carnivores. With the public attitude survey we’ve targeted the main stakeholder groups which are either crucial for lynx conservation or which livelihoods lynx presence can impact – general public, hunters and livestock breeders all coming from the project area. The questionnaire we used included questions on attitudes towards lynx, beliefs about...
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The existence of large carnivores depends to a large extent on successful coexistence with humans, so knowledge of stakeholder attitudes is of great importance for the conservation of large carnivores. Therefore, a public opinion survey among local residents, hunters and breeders was carried out at the start of the LIFE Lynx project and was repeated again in 2021. We were mostly interested to know more about the stakeholders’...
Read MoreProject Visibility and Public Acceptance of Lynx and Lynx Conservation Our goal in this action is to document and evaluate potential changes in public attitudes and knowledge about lynx over the course of project implementation, thus providing an additional tool for fine-tuning activities over the course of the project. The results will also provide insight into people’s willingness to accept lynx in the project area over the duration...
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