Latin America

Key Papers

Álvarez, H. G., and G. Zapata-Ríos. 2021. Do social factors influence perceptions of the jaguar Panthera onca in Ecuador? Oryx:1-8.  Download

Azevedo, F. C. C., P. H. Nobre, G. A. Ferreira, R. Morato, R. C. de Paula, P. R. Amaral, E. Eizirik, C. C. Sartor, and A. Andriolo. 2023. Translocation as a tool for the conservation of the jaguar Panthera onca: a case study in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Oryx:1-5.   Download

Ballejo, F., P. Plaza, A. di Virgilio, M. Lucherini, P. Gáspero, M. M. Guerisoli, A. Novaro, M. Funes, and S. A. Lambertucci. 2022. Unravelling negative interactions between humans, mammalian carnivores and raptors in South America. Ecología Austral.   Download

Catapani, M.L.; Aguirra , I.R., Araujo, F.A.S., Moss , A., Massocato, G; Oliveira, B. and Desbiez, A.L.J. 2024. Manejo do fogo na pecuária pantaneira: percepções e oportunidades para sua gestão sustentável no bioma. Ecologia do Fogo e Conservação do Bioma Pantanal, 14(4). Download

Catapani, M. L., Desbiez, A.L.J. and Morsello, C. 2024. Giant anteaters as bad omens: Determinants and implications of wildlife superstitions. People and Nature, 6(3):987–1000. Download

Catapani, M.L., C. Morsello, B. Oliveira and A.L.J. Desbiez. 2021. Using a Conflict Framework Analysis to Help Beekeepers and Giant Armadillos (Priodontes maximus) Coexist. Front. Conserv. Sci., 2. Download

Connolly, E., and H. Nelson. 2023. Jaguars in the borderlands: multinatural conservation for coexistence in the Anthropocene. Frontiers in Conservation Science 4.   Download

Desbiez, A.L.J., Oliveira, B. and Catapani, M.L. 2020. Bee careful! Conflict between beekeepers and giant armadillos (Priodontes maximus) and potential ways to coexist. Edentata 21:1–12. Download

Flores, C., G. Lichtenstein, and A. Schiavini. 2023. Human–wildlife conflicts in Patagonia: ranchers’ perceptions of guanaco Lama guanicoe abundance. Oryx:1-11.   Download

Hermira, A. A. C., and F. Michalski. 2022. Crop damage by vertebrates in Latin America: current knowledge and potential future management directions. Peerj 10:e13185.  Download

Machado, R. 2022. Ingestion of fishing items by South American sea lion in southern Brazil: indicating a neglected problem. Fisheries Research 255:106459.   External resource

Marchini, S., Boulhosa, R., Camargo, J., Camilo, A.R., Concone, H., Feliciani, F., Ferrardo, I., et al. (2024). A systems approach to planning for human-wildlife coexistence: The case of people and jaguars in the Brazilian Pantanal. Conservation Science and Practice e13082. Download

Pinto-Marroquin, M., C. Castaño-Uribe, J. Pérez-Torres, J. F. Aristizabal, D. Santos-Fita, A. Ramos Chaparro, and J. C. Serio-Silva. 2022. Potential conflict as an opportunity for coexistence: cosmovision and attitudes of Arhuaco people towards jaguars. Ethnobiology and Conservation 11.   Download

Ramos, K. L., R. Machado, C. Zapelini, L. C. de Castilho, and A. Schiavetti. 2023. Knowledge, attitudes and behavioural intentions of gillnet fishermen towards the South American sea lion in two marine protected areas in southern Brazil. Ocean & Coastal Management 242:106673.   External resource

Ribeiro, Y.G.G., Saito, E.N., Catapani, M.L., de Morais, R.B., Yogui, D.R., Sonetti-González, T., Mancilla Garcia, M., & Desbiez, A.L.J. 2025. Uncovering barriers and paths for ensuring road mitigation to reduce wildlife collisions: Establishing grounds for action. Conservation Science and Practice, 7(9), e70124. Download

Ribeiro, Y.G.G., Bastos, R.M., Silva, B.O., Marchini, S., Morais, R.B., Catapani, M.L., Corrêa, P.L.P., da Rocha, R.L.A., da SilvaA.M. and Ferraz K.M.P.M.B. 2023. Social media data from two iconic Neotropical big cats: can this translate to action? Frontiers in Conservation Science, 4. Download

Rojas-VeraPinto, R., C. Bautista, and N. Selva. 2022. Living high and at risk: predicting Andean bear occurrence and conflicts with humans in southeastern Peru. Global Ecology and Conservation:e02112.   Download

Sandroni, L. T., K. M. P. M. de Barros Ferraz, S. Marchini, A. Percequillo, R. Coates, R. M. Paolino, Y. Barros, M. Landis, Y. G. G. Ribeiro, and L. P. Munhoes. 2022. Stakeholder mapping as a transdisciplinary exercise for jaguar conservation in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Conservation Science and Practice n/a:e12651.  Download

Vargas, S. P., M. Hargreaves, J. P. Del Valle, A. Hodges, E. Beltrami, M. F. Toledo, and G. Sapaj-Aguilera. 2022. Coexistence in times of climate crisis: a participatory mapping to understanding conservation conflicts in the Central Andes of Chile. Frontiers in Conservation Science 3.   Download