Animal Community and Human Interactions Issues

NOTE: This section is under construction and reorganization. In time, each bulleted item shown below will possess a link to an article, paper(s), or sub-section. Please check back for updates and linked pages.

• Bear Island Case study: Why panthers retreat from hunter areas between November and January

• Breaking the cycle: Addressing hunting and culling issues

• Captive wildlife: Selfish ownership, exhibition/educational ambassadors, or legitimate rescue?

• Case studies of mismanagement: White-tailed deer

• Case study: Over-run and over-used wildlife management areas

• Deer herd fertility management as a means to control inundation by deer in urban areas

• Ecosystem level approaches to ecological stabilization

• Habitat acquisition, management and conservation

• How big corporations and government officials are killing the panther

• How to effectively oppose hunter misconceptions and their views of wildlife management

• How to effectively deal with nuisance predators: Non-lethal methods of predator management

• Human-carnivore conflict management

• Impacts of multiuse areas and civilization on panther populations and deer herd stability: Horse back trails, dirt bikes and ATVs, mountain bikes, insulting and inundating recreation, swamp buggies and off-road vehicles, hunting, habitat fragmentation and loss, highways, automobile mortalities, urban sprawl, and development

• Interactions among panther, bobcat, black bear, coyote and red wolf

• Irresponsible farming and ranching operations and practices in critical panther regions

• Monocultural lands: Plantation practices and the disregard for ecological sensitivity

• Plight of the dusky seaside sparrow

• Predator control and misguided views

• Reduction in multiuse areas and increase of minimal impact areas

• Regulation of ungulate hunter quotas on federal and state lands where panthers reside and shortcomings on Bear Island, Big Cypress Preserve

• Reintroduction of predators

• Systematic ecosystem and biome level restoration and management - An approach to total community stability within the complex array of animal and plant interactions

• The absence of panthers, and the in-situ balance of nature in predator-deficient areas

• The deleterious effects of cattle and cropland runoff on watersheds

• The extinction vortex with regards to keystone species and the serial cascading procession of system collapse

• The failure of special interest groups and non-ecosystem approaches to effectively achieve total ecological stability in panther habitat: Why a total community approach to ecological restoration is needed

• The Fakahatchee Strand: A case study of poor habitat management

• The imbalance humans have caused: The persecution and eradication of predators and prey through bounty and harvest in the last 400 years, the death of large carnivores in North America, and the disappearance and alteration of large undisturbed wilderness

• The immorality and irresponsibility of predator eradication programs

• The role of private lands in panther conservation

• The shortcomings of regional and local planning counsels to effectively implement large scale preservation

• The total picture of ecological stability

• Urban sprawl, habitat loss and fragmentation

• What cats can offer for the cure of AIDS, leukemia, and cancer in humans

• White tigers, ligers, and jaquards: The exploitive misconceptions of hybrid breeding programs

• Why local community steering committees have failed to protect natural resources for wide-ranging species

• Zoos: Agents of conservation or profiteering enterprise?