Comparing South African and Canadian practices for managing large herbivores in fenced protected areas

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Olson, Kiva
  • Hvenegaard, Glen T.

• As human civilization expands and depletes resources, protected areas, such as national parks, have become key areas of conservation. Increasingly, protected areas are becoming ‘islands’ of wilderness. 1,2,3 As a result, wildlife cannot move freely throughout their ranges, concentrating their impacts. 20 Large herbivores greatly impact vegetation
  in areas they occupy;1,3,4,5,6 such impacts are compounded in fenced protected areas,1 especially if predation is reduced or absent and if populations become hyperabundant.

• Date created

  2013-01-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Canada
  • South Africa
  • Herd management
  • Large herbivores

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-wb8g-tj14

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International