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Education can improve the negative perception of a threatened long-lived scavenging bird, the Andean condor

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  • Verónica B Cailly Arnulphi
  • Sergio A Lambertucci
  • Carlos E Borghi
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Human-wildlife conflicts currently represent one of the main conservation problems for wildlife species around the world. Vultures have serious conservation concerns, many of which are related to people's adverse perception about them due to the belief that they prey on livestock. Our aim was to assess local perception and the factors influencing people's perception of the largest scavenging bird in South America, the Andean condor. For this, we interviewed 112 people from Valle Fértil, San Juan province, a rural area of central west Argentina. Overall, people in the area mostly have an elementary education, and their most important activity is livestock rearing. The results showed that, in general, most people perceive the Andean condor as an injurious species and, in fact, some people recognize that they still kill condors. We identified two major factors that affect this perception, the education level of villagers and their relationship with livestock ranching. Our study suggests that conservation of condors and other similar scavengers depends on education programs designed to change the negative perception people have about them. Such programs should be particularly focused on ranchers since they are the ones who have the worst perception of these scavengers. We suggest that highlighting the central ecological role of scavengers and recovering their cultural value would be fundamental to reverse their persecution and their negative perception by people.

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  • Verónica B Cailly Arnulphi & Sergio A Lambertucci & Carlos E Borghi, 2017. "Education can improve the negative perception of a threatened long-lived scavenging bird, the Andean condor," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(9), pages 1-13, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0185278
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185278
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