Acta Universitatis Bohemiae Meridionalis, 2019 (vol. 22), issue 1

Discussion of the Issue of Wolf Expansion with an Impact on Landscape Management and Farming

Jindřiška Kouřilová, Jana Lososová, Andrea Dohnalová

Acta Univ. Bohem. Merid. 2019, 22(1):1-12 | DOI: 10.2478/acta-2019-0001763  

The coexistence of people and large carnivores, especially wolves, tend to have an adverse impact on regional sustainable development of ecosystems and rural areas, negatively influencing mainly traditional farming, sustainable tourism and other socioeconomic activities. Although the viewpoint on current situation is not quite clear from the conservative institutions' perspective, an increase in compensations and support of protective measures results in expenditure displacement instead of proper problem solution. The same displacement logic applies not only to livestock grazing subsidies in the open landscape but also to subsidies determined exclusively...