David W Macdonald
Biographic Data
| ID | 161695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David W Macdonald |
| GIVEN NAMES | David W |
| FAMILY NAME | Macdonald |
| SIGNATURE | MACDONALD D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0607-9373 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Towards a model for the assessment of conservation, welfare, and governance in wildlife tourism attractions
In the absence of sufficient regulation of wildlife tourism attractions (WTAs), standards of treatment of animals are typically determined by what tourists find acceptable. Under this model there is little motivation for operators to improve standards if tourists do not leave reputationally damaging feedback. Given this current state, the objectives of this paper are twofold. First, we highlight and categorise existing systemic barriers that prev…
The behaviours of different carnivore and livestock species shape spatial patterns of human–carnivore conflict
Understanding the ecological and human factors that shape the loss of livestock to wild carnivores can help target conservation efforts. We used 5 years of livestock depredation records (2009–2013, n = 1147) alongside Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, to investigate how spatial patterns vary by carnivore and livestock species. Dominant patterns across all species and seasons included an increased likelihood of depredation closer to protected areas …
What is a lion worth to local people – Quantifying of the costs of living alongside a top predator
Investigating Carnivore Guild Structure: Spatial and Temporal Relationships amongst Threatened Felids in Myanmar
The co-occurrence of felid species in Southeast Asia provides an unusual opportunity to investigate guild structure and the factors controlling it. Using camera-trap data, we quantified the space use, temporal activity, and multi-dimensional niche overlap of the tiger, clouded leopard, Asiatic golden cat, marbled cat, and leopard cat in the Htamanthi Wildlife Sanctuary, Myanmar. We hypothesised that the spatio-temporal behaviour of smaller cats w…
Stress-Related Herpesvirus Reactivation in Badgers Can Result in Clostridium Proliferation
Clostridium perfringens is an important food-borne zoonotic pathogen and a member of the commensal gut microbiome of many mammals. Predisposing factors such as coinfection with other pathogens or diet change can, however, cause overgrowth and subsequent disease development. Here we investigated the occurrence of C. perfringens in a free-ranging badger population with up to 100% prevalence of herpesvirus infection. Herpesvirus reactivation is know…
Social referents and normative standards affect perceptions of livestock management behaviors
Social influence impacts individuals’ behavior through norms – the perceived appropriateness of behaviors – and social referents, whose behavior is copied by others. Interventions using social influence may help promote conservation-friendly behaviors. We explored how perceptions are influenced by descriptive norms (what people do) and social referents (who does it) in relation to livestock management in Kenya. By presenting participants with vig…
Shooting pheasants for sport: What does the death of Cecil tell us
People hunt and kill animals for sport in many parts of the world. This raises many issues, some of which were brought to the fore when a lion Panthera leo , nicknamed Cecil, was killed by a trophy hunter in Zimbabwe in 2015. Cecil's death led to an unprecedented public reaction in Europe and the USA, and a debate in which opponents and supporters of sport hunting advanced different types of argument based on, inter alia, conservation, animal wel…
Evaluating the effects of a conservation intervention on rural farmers’ attitudes toward lions
Using an experimental approach, we analyzed the self-reported changes in farmers’ attitudes toward the African lion (Panthera leo) and a community-based lion conservation program (i.e., the Long Shields Community Guardians), before and after implementation. This program protects livestock and mitigates lion depredation through non-lethal means, with the aim of promoting human-lion coexistence. Results indicated a significant positive shift in att…
Transgender youth and oral health: A qualitative study
Transgender youth face several comorbidities with oral health implications, including depression, harmful eating behaviors, and pharmaceutical side-effects. No information exists on how transgender youth view oral health or how they interface with oral health providers. The purpose of this study was to elicit experiences, knowledge, and perceptions of oral health among transgender youth and their caregivers. This was a qualitative study using in-…
Can school children influence adults’ behavior toward jaguars? Evidence of intergenerational learning in education for conservation
A school-based experiment was conducted in the Brazilian Amazon to examine the effects of passively received information versus active elaboration on the 'perceptions' of jaguars (Panthera onca) among students, and the effects of information communicated via illustrated book on those perceptions among student's parents. Books distributed via school decreased fathers' perceptions of social acceptance of jaguar killing, but the same books distribut…
An interdisciplinary review of current and future approaches to improving human–predator relations
In a world of shrinking habitats and increasing competition for natural resources, potentially dangerous predators bring the challenges of coexisting with wildlife sharply into focus. Through interdisciplinary collaboration among authors trained in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, we reviewed current approaches to mitigating adverse human–predator encounters and devised a vision for future approaches to understanding and mit…
Unethical use of wildlife in tourism: What's the problem, who is responsible, and what can be done?
Wildlife tourism is a huge global market, the revenue from which can promote local livelihoods and tourist education, enact conservation, and improve animal welfare. Such benefits arise if wildlife tourist attractions (WTAs) prioritise ethical deliverables above financial profit, but recent work has shown that the majority of WTAs have substantial negative animal welfare and conservation impacts. In the absence of global regulatory authorities, t…
Bushmeat hunting and extinction risk to the world's mammals
Terrestrial mammals are experiencing a massive collapse in their population sizes and geographical ranges around the world, but many of the drivers, patterns and consequences of this decline remain poorly understood. Here we provide an analysis showing that bushmeat hunting for mostly food and medicinal products is driving a global crisis whereby 301 terrestrial mammal species are threatened with extinction. Nearly all of these threatened species…
Wildlife Conservation on Farmland Volume 2: Conflict in the countryside
Capybara
Key Topics in Conservation Biology 2
Capybara: Biology, Use and Conservation of an Exceptional Neotropical Species
Biofuels bonanza? Sugarcane production and poverty in villages surrounding Budongo Forest, Uganda
In 2006 the Ugandan government attempted to give a large portion of Mabira Forest Reserve to the Sugar Corporation of Uganda Limited. The government argued the rainforest "give away" would contribute to economic development and create the opportunity for biofuel production. The proposal faced massive opposition from Ugandan civil society, which countered that deforestation would increase hunger and poverty. In order to help resolve the debate, th…
A review of financial instruments to pay for predator conservation and encourage human–carnivore coexistence
One of the greatest challenges in biodiversity conservation today is how to facilitate protection of species that are highly valued at a global scale but have little or even negative value at a local scale. Imperiled species such as large predators can impose significant economic costs at a local level, often in poverty-stricken rural areas where households are least able to tolerate such costs, and impede efforts of local people, especially trad…
Wildlife conservation and reduced emissions from deforestation in a case study of Nantu National Park, Sulawesi
Wildlife conservation and reduced emissions from deforestation in a case study of Nantu Wildlife Reserve, Sulawesi: 2. An institutional framework for Redd implementation
Faunal loss from bushmeat hunting: Empirical evidence and policy implications in Bioko Island
Agricultural abandonment in mountain areas of Europe: Environmental consequences and policy response
Foxes and foxhunting on farms in Wiltshire: A case study
Integrating the environmental and economic consequences of converting to organic agriculture: Evidence from a case study
Faunal loss from bushmeat hunting: Empirical evidence and policy implications in Bioko Island
Biofuels bonanza? Sugarcane production and poverty in villages surrounding Budongo Forest, Uganda
In 2006 the Ugandan government attempted to give a large portion of Mabira Forest Reserve to the Sugar Corporation of Uganda Limited. The government argued the rainforest "give away" would contribute to economic development and create the opportunity for biofuel production. The proposal faced massive opposition from Ugandan civil society, which countered that deforestation would increase hunger and poverty. In order to help resolve the debate, th…
Integrating the environmental and economic consequences of converting to organic agriculture: Evidence from a case study
Foxes and foxhunting on farms in Wiltshire: A case study
Wildlife conservation and reduced emissions from deforestation in a case study of Nantu Wildlife Reserve, Sulawesi: 2. An institutional framework for Redd implementation
Wildlife conservation and reduced emissions from deforestation in a case study of Nantu National Park, Sulawesi
The Struggle to Organize: Resistance in Canada's Fishery
Transgender youth and oral health: A qualitative study
Transgender youth face several comorbidities with oral health implications, including depression, harmful eating behaviors, and pharmaceutical side-effects. No information exists on how transgender youth view oral health or how they interface with oral health providers. The purpose of this study was to elicit experiences, knowledge, and perceptions of oral health among transgender youth and their caregivers. This was a qualitative study using in-…
Can school children influence adults’ behavior toward jaguars? Evidence of intergenerational learning in education for conservation
A school-based experiment was conducted in the Brazilian Amazon to examine the effects of passively received information versus active elaboration on the 'perceptions' of jaguars (Panthera onca) among students, and the effects of information communicated via illustrated book on those perceptions among student's parents. Books distributed via school decreased fathers' perceptions of social acceptance of jaguar killing, but the same books distribut…
The Struggle to Organize: Resistance in Canada's Fishery
Integrating the environmental and economic consequences of converting to organic agriculture: Evidence from a case study
Agricultural abandonment in mountain areas of Europe: Environmental consequences and policy response
Foxes and foxhunting on farms in Wiltshire: A case study
Faunal loss from bushmeat hunting: Empirical evidence and policy implications in Bioko Island
A review of financial instruments to pay for predator conservation and encourage human–carnivore coexistence
One of the greatest challenges in biodiversity conservation today is how to facilitate protection of species that are highly valued at a global scale but have little or even negative value at a local scale. Imperiled species such as large predators can impose significant economic costs at a local level, often in poverty-stricken rural areas where households are least able to tolerate such costs, and impede efforts of local people, especially trad…
Wildlife conservation and reduced emissions from deforestation in a case study of Nantu National Park, Sulawesi
Wildlife conservation and reduced emissions from deforestation in a case study of Nantu Wildlife Reserve, Sulawesi: 2. An institutional framework for Redd implementation
Capybara: Biology, Use and Conservation of an Exceptional Neotropical Species
Biofuels bonanza? Sugarcane production and poverty in villages surrounding Budongo Forest, Uganda
In 2006 the Ugandan government attempted to give a large portion of Mabira Forest Reserve to the Sugar Corporation of Uganda Limited. The government argued the rainforest "give away" would contribute to economic development and create the opportunity for biofuel production. The proposal faced massive opposition from Ugandan civil society, which countered that deforestation would increase hunger and poverty. In order to help resolve the debate, th…
Capybara
Key Topics in Conservation Biology 2
Wildlife Conservation on Farmland Volume 2: Conflict in the countryside
Bushmeat hunting and extinction risk to the world's mammals
Terrestrial mammals are experiencing a massive collapse in their population sizes and geographical ranges around the world, but many of the drivers, patterns and consequences of this decline remain poorly understood. Here we provide an analysis showing that bushmeat hunting for mostly food and medicinal products is driving a global crisis whereby 301 terrestrial mammal species are threatened with extinction. Nearly all of these threatened species…
An interdisciplinary review of current and future approaches to improving human–predator relations
In a world of shrinking habitats and increasing competition for natural resources, potentially dangerous predators bring the challenges of coexisting with wildlife sharply into focus. Through interdisciplinary collaboration among authors trained in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, we reviewed current approaches to mitigating adverse human–predator encounters and devised a vision for future approaches to understanding and mit…
Unethical use of wildlife in tourism: What's the problem, who is responsible, and what can be done?
Wildlife tourism is a huge global market, the revenue from which can promote local livelihoods and tourist education, enact conservation, and improve animal welfare. Such benefits arise if wildlife tourist attractions (WTAs) prioritise ethical deliverables above financial profit, but recent work has shown that the majority of WTAs have substantial negative animal welfare and conservation impacts. In the absence of global regulatory authorities, t…
Shooting pheasants for sport: What does the death of Cecil tell us
People hunt and kill animals for sport in many parts of the world. This raises many issues, some of which were brought to the fore when a lion Panthera leo , nicknamed Cecil, was killed by a trophy hunter in Zimbabwe in 2015. Cecil's death led to an unprecedented public reaction in Europe and the USA, and a debate in which opponents and supporters of sport hunting advanced different types of argument based on, inter alia, conservation, animal wel…
Evaluating the effects of a conservation intervention on rural farmers’ attitudes toward lions
Using an experimental approach, we analyzed the self-reported changes in farmers’ attitudes toward the African lion (Panthera leo) and a community-based lion conservation program (i.e., the Long Shields Community Guardians), before and after implementation. This program protects livestock and mitigates lion depredation through non-lethal means, with the aim of promoting human-lion coexistence. Results indicated a significant positive shift in att…
Transgender youth and oral health: A qualitative study
Transgender youth face several comorbidities with oral health implications, including depression, harmful eating behaviors, and pharmaceutical side-effects. No information exists on how transgender youth view oral health or how they interface with oral health providers. The purpose of this study was to elicit experiences, knowledge, and perceptions of oral health among transgender youth and their caregivers. This was a qualitative study using in-…
Can school children influence adults’ behavior toward jaguars? Evidence of intergenerational learning in education for conservation
A school-based experiment was conducted in the Brazilian Amazon to examine the effects of passively received information versus active elaboration on the 'perceptions' of jaguars (Panthera onca) among students, and the effects of information communicated via illustrated book on those perceptions among student's parents. Books distributed via school decreased fathers' perceptions of social acceptance of jaguar killing, but the same books distribut…
Investigating Carnivore Guild Structure: Spatial and Temporal Relationships amongst Threatened Felids in Myanmar
The co-occurrence of felid species in Southeast Asia provides an unusual opportunity to investigate guild structure and the factors controlling it. Using camera-trap data, we quantified the space use, temporal activity, and multi-dimensional niche overlap of the tiger, clouded leopard, Asiatic golden cat, marbled cat, and leopard cat in the Htamanthi Wildlife Sanctuary, Myanmar. We hypothesised that the spatio-temporal behaviour of smaller cats w…
Stress-Related Herpesvirus Reactivation in Badgers Can Result in Clostridium Proliferation
Clostridium perfringens is an important food-borne zoonotic pathogen and a member of the commensal gut microbiome of many mammals. Predisposing factors such as coinfection with other pathogens or diet change can, however, cause overgrowth and subsequent disease development. Here we investigated the occurrence of C. perfringens in a free-ranging badger population with up to 100% prevalence of herpesvirus infection. Herpesvirus reactivation is know…
Social referents and normative standards affect perceptions of livestock management behaviors
Social influence impacts individuals’ behavior through norms – the perceived appropriateness of behaviors – and social referents, whose behavior is copied by others. Interventions using social influence may help promote conservation-friendly behaviors. We explored how perceptions are influenced by descriptive norms (what people do) and social referents (who does it) in relation to livestock management in Kenya. By presenting participants with vig…
What is a lion worth to local people – Quantifying of the costs of living alongside a top predator
Towards a model for the assessment of conservation, welfare, and governance in wildlife tourism attractions
In the absence of sufficient regulation of wildlife tourism attractions (WTAs), standards of treatment of animals are typically determined by what tourists find acceptable. Under this model there is little motivation for operators to improve standards if tourists do not leave reputationally damaging feedback. Given this current state, the objectives of this paper are twofold. First, we highlight and categorise existing systemic barriers that prev…
Geography (17 works) · Biology (15 works) · Ecology (14 works) · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (13 works) · Wildlife (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Natural resource economics (8 works) · Political science (8 works)