Sammendrag
We tested differences in attitudes towards bears, wolves and lynx among the rural public
in Albania and Macedonia through information collected from a questionnaire survey
(n ¼ 759).Wolves were the species with the least positive attitudes among the rural public
and had the lowest support for conservation compared with bears and lynx. In addition,
conflict perception of wolves was higher than for bears and lynx. We argue that, based on
species specific differences in public attitudes, conservation initiatives and management
plans for large carnivores should deal with wolves separately from bears and lynx, as lower
public support for wolves might jeopardise the conservation of the two other large carnivores.
Bears and lynx can be potentially treated together in conservation initiatives based
on the similar levels of public support for conservation, however, from a conflictmanagement
point of view, all three species need to be addressed separately.
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