Felids Interactions - Interspecific Conflicts

[Rishi]

(05-25-2018, 05:59 AM)Shir Babr Wrote: I HATE hunters. You should beat him up or mess with him, I heard Nordic countries have a really laughable penal system anyway, especially if you claim you're a minority

This has always been a controversial subject, but @Pantherinae is right!

Coexistence & conflict has always been my prime area of interest (that's what got me into Asiatic lions) & i assure you, it's always a mistake to assume we aren't a part of nature, especially in those northern countries, much of which are basically vast wildernesses. 

If foxes undergo a population boom in the forests bordering habitation & fearlessly start destroying local livestock, that'll be much worse news for the whole ecosystem than regulated hunting. Especially if the region is a fringe forest & don't have/lost the natural containing factors like wolves etc. 
Also, it's not like they can just bring back wolves there either. Such humanity-wilderness interfaces need to be gradually colonised by wildlife spilling out of the deep forests & slowing reforging a new relationship (The old one clearly didn't works out). And this relationship is much more important than people give it credit for...

Do you know of the Ustad debacle? Ranthambore's star tiger T-25 aka Ustad was captured & "jailed" for reported being homicidal. Many so-called wildlife warriors came to his defense with images like this...

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...to try and prove that it was the victim's fault (sounds familiar?) & that he didn't feed of them. But it didn't matter whether he was an actual man-eater or not! He was reportedly involved in atleast 4 deaths. Of the 40+ adult tigers in Ranthambore's, locals had problems with only him.

In that case even if there is a 1% chance of the allegations being true, no... even if we KNEW he were innocent, he had to go.

Was it appeasement? Maybe.
Was it necessary? Definitely!

The fact is that good men have spent their whole lives, ironing out the man-animal conflict in the region. All those years of achievement couldn't have been thrown away just because some tourists who come for safari once a year, from their air-conditioned homes in India's largest cities would like to see their favorite "Ustad".

Between "Justice for Ustad" & future of Ranthambore the whole of Western Indian Tiger Landscape it was an easy choice... Reply