Animal welfare in relation to human food choices is growing attention modern societies. The “Five Freedoms” framework (i.e., freedom from hunger and thirst, discomfort, pain, injury disease, express normal behavior fear distress) proposed 1965 within the Brambell Report established by UK Farm Welfare Council 1979 (Farm Council, 2009) has been adopted multiple governments nongovernmental institu...

A reduction in the loss and waste of human food is a global issue for addressing poverty and hunger in poorer nations, and for reducing the environmental footprint of the agriculture sector. An emerging issue, however, is that food wasted by humans is often accessible to wildlife, affecting wildlife ecology and behaviour, as well as ecological processes and community dynamics. Here we highlight...

Rangeland production is a foundational ecosystem service and resource on which livestock, wildlife, people depend. Capitalizing recent advancements in the use of remote sensing data across rangelands, we provide estimates herbaceous rangeland from 1986 to 2019 at 16-d annual time steps 30-m resolution western United States. A factorial comparison this dataset three national scale datasets prese...

The value of wildlife has been widely ignored or under-rated in the past by the international community. At most, wildlife was considered from the limited aesthetic and touristic aspects. This situation has changed somewhat. In the majority of the veterinary profession, which is largely livestock-oriented, wildlife is increasingly considered in terms of wild animal production and occupies just ...

the arid zone encompasses land that has an imbalance between precipitation and losses through evaporation. globally, arid zones comprise large part of many countries in the mid-latitudes in both the northern and the southern hemispheres. both australia and iran are countries with a large arid zone. this negative water balance in the arid zone affects the type of land use in these countries. at ...

County extension agents in Colorado indicated that extension bulletins were the most important type of assistance needed for their clientele in the area of wildlife damage control. County extension agents indicated that pocket gophers, prairie dogs, skunks, and coyotes were the most important of 32 species requiring extension information for their clientele. Introduction Extension wildlife spec...

Koala populations in Australia are declining due to threats such as chlamydiosis, wild dog predation and vehicle collision. In the last decade, grazing livestock emerged anecdotally a threat koala survival areas where habitat land overlap. This is first study investigating significance of livestock-inflicted injuries deaths over large spatial temporal scale. We investigated outcome, scale, freq...