Conservation social scientist, human/political ecologist. Researching at the intersections of human-wildlife coexistence, pastoralism, (re)wilding, knowledge and governance.
Hanna Pettersson
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Our paper follows up on Jens Persson et al's study from 2015, which showed that the scheme had successfully promoted the recovery of wolverines conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Now, 10+ years on, the northern population trend is pointing downward, and the scheme has lost legitimacy
Hanna Pettersson
Why? One issue is that the more successful these schemes are, the more costly they become. In Sweden, payments have not kept pace with rising coexistence costs, remaining frozen for more than 20 years. It poses the question: Is society willing to pay the costs of carnivore recovery?
All is not lost though, wolverines are still doing well in the rest of Sweden, and the negative trends in the north can likely be turned with proper investment. In short, results-based payments must be designed to adapt to socio-ecological change, rising costs, and participants’ needs over time.
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Moreover, these schemes are completely reliant on trustworthy monitoring. To pay the right people the right amount, we need to know how many carnivores there are and where. In Sweden, shifting snow conditions have made such accurate monitoring increasingly hard.
What if we pay for the presence of large carnivores, rather than for the damage they cause? This is what Sweden has been doing in the reindeer herding area since 1996, a scheme lauded as a gold standard for coexistence. But is it still delivering? We found worrying trends👇 www.slu.se/en/news/2026...
Full paper accessible here 👇https://www.researchgate.net/publication/405592269_The_Paradox_of_Success_in_Conservation_Performance_Payments_Rising_Costs_and_Declining_Trust_in_Sweden's_Carnivore_Policy
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Hanna Pettersson
Hanna Pettersson
Hanna Pettersson
Hanna Pettersson
Sweden’s internationally acclaimed compensation scheme for coexistence between reindeer herders and wolverines helped the species recover. A new study now shows that the success has not lasted. Trust ...
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