Fences are more than an issue of aesthetics

Abstract

Licht and colleagues (BioScience 60: 147–153) identify South Africa’s pioneering efforts to reintroduce top predators to small, fenced protected areas as a conservation model America might be wise to follow. However, South African success at large predator reintroduction is largely the result of ubiquitous fencing that generally prevents predator conflict with people and livestock (see Gusset et al. 2008).