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Conservation challenges emerging from free-roaming horse management: A vexing social-ecological mismatch

2018-10-01

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Horses have been associated with human societies for millennia, and for many have come to symbolize wildness, power, resilience, and freedom. Although equids were extirpated from North America 10,000–12,000 years ago, descendants of domestic horses now roam freely in the USA and 17 other countries across six continents. In landscape-scale and experimental investigations, free-roaming horses (Equus caballus) have b...

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Literature Corpus work: 4351c809-5140-56da-9378-e6d2f39b966a
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2018.07.015

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