Conradie, Beatrice; Piesse, Jenifer - In: African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 08 (2013) 4
of South Africa’s arid Karoo. In the past, farmers responded to the conflict with blanket culling of predators, a … strategy that ecologists understand to be harmful. This paper investigates the ability of blanket predator culling to reduce … affect losses. Culling an additional caracal or leopard was estimated to increase future livestock losses by 5.7% and 27 …