Posted on 03/02/2023 5:20:07 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Wildfires pushing tigers towards Sumatran villages. Drought prodding elephants into African cropland. Hotter ocean temperatures forcing whales into shipping lanes.
Humans and wildlife have long struggled to harmoniously coexist. Climate change is pitting both against each other more often, new research finds, amplifying conflicts over habitat and resources.
"We should expect these kinds of conflicts to increase in the future," said lead researcher Briana Abrahms, a wildlife biologist at the University of Washington. "Recognizing that climate is an important driver can help us better predict when they'll occur and help us [intervene]."
Human-wildlife conflict is defined as any time humans and wildlife have a negative interaction: a car hitting a deer; a carnivore killing livestock; a starving polar bear going into a remote Alaskan village looking for food.
Abrahms, who studying large carnivores in Africa and humpback whale entanglements off the Pacific Coast, started to notice examples of human-wildlife conflict that appeared to be influenced by the effects of climate change. She and a team of researchers looked at three decades of published research on human-wildlife conflict on six continents and five oceans, looking to see if there was a climate connection.
They found 49 cases that all followed a similar pattern, Abrahms said. "There's some climate driver that's changing what people do or what animals do and that's leading to these increased conflicts."
Knowing that these kinds of conflicts are likely to increase as the climate continues to warm, Abrahms said, it's important for policymakers and people to look at solutions.
(Excerpt) Read more at northcountrypublicradio.org ...
Simple solution. Eat the animals.
Yeah. Not worthy of further comment.
They’ll be hell to pay when FJB starts providing firearms and taxpayyyer dollars to the animals to strike back at the humans.
The only thing I’ve seen pushing wildlife into human environment is the amount of clearing land to build huge condo and apartment complexes along with strip malls...
Climate change is endangering the unicorns!
Everything bad in life either causes or is caused by global warming. Fact./s
I thought climate change was going to cause the sea levels to rise and kill us? If that’s the case, the sea creatures win. Aren’t they happy with that?
Hotter ocean temperatures forcing whales into shipping lanes.
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What ?
So..... the water is cooler in the shipping lanes ?
Moronic evil or bald face liars
Climate change? How about that people are building houses and living in areas previously left free for animals?
Climate Change....is there anything it can’t do?
Yeah, everyone knows the unicorns died off because it got so cold their horns and other pointy organs froze and fell off and they could no longer reproduce.
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