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Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2015 A study was carried out in Manas National Park, Assam in northeastern India between 2007 and 2009 to understand the magnitude of human-elephant conflict through a quantification of damage and assessment of economic loss.
Naba K. Nath +3 more
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Effectiveness of intervention methods against crop‐raiding elephants [PDF]
Conservation Letters, 2011 Abstract The raiding of crops by elephants is one of the major components of human‐elephant conflict, causing loss of livelihood and retaliation against elephants. To mitigate this conflict, various intervention methods are in use by farmers across Africa and Asia; yet there have been few rigorous assessments of their effectiveness ...
Tammy E. Davies +6 more
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Crop raiding pattern by Elephant in Nepal: A Case study of Khata Corridor
International Journal of Plant, Animal and Environmental Sciences, 2023 Abstract Human – Elephant Conflict (HEC) causes the socio-economic distress in the settlement around Bardiya National Park (BNP). The transboundary migration of Asian elephant from Katarniyaghat Wildlife Sanctuary (KWS) in India to BNP and vice versa through Khata corridor exposes the vulnerable settlement in the corridor to frequent elephant ...
PAHARI Sagar +2 more
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Estimation of losses to agricultural crops by the wild animals in Najibabad forest division
Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2021 The wild animals cause losses to agriculture crop yields. The present study focuses on the assessment of agricultural damage caused by these wild animals in villages adjacent to protected areas and located in Najibabad forest division in Bijnor (Uttar ...
ROBIN RATHI, MOHAN KUKRETI, DINESH BHATT
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Crop Foraging, Crop Losses, and Crop Raiding [PDF]
Annual Review of Anthropology, 2018 Crop foraging or crop raiding concerns wildlife foraging and farmers’ reactions and responses to it. To understand crop foraging and its value to wildlife or its implications for humans requires a cross-disciplinary approach that considers the behavior and ecology of wild animals engaging in this behavior; the types and levels of competition for ...
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Determining baselines for human-elephant conflict: A matter of time. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Elephant crop raiding is one of the most relevant forms of human-elephant conflict (HEC) in Africa. Northern Botswana holds the largest population of African elephants in the world, and in the eastern Okavango Panhandle, 16,000 people share and compete ...
Rocío A Pozo +4 more
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Population structure and demography of Myanmar’s conflict elephants
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021 Despite containing the largest extent of unfragmented landscape in the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) range, Myanmar has high levels of human–elephant conflict.
Kris Budd +6 more
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The use of audio playback to deter crop‐raiding Asian elephants [PDF]
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2016 ABSTRACT Human–elephant conflict (HEC) and poaching are the foremost threats to the survival of elephants (African, Loxodonta africana ; Asian, Elephas maximus ) in their natural ...
Wijayagunawardane, MPB +7 more
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Conflict of Interest Between People and Baboons: Crop Raiding in Uganda [PDF]
International Journal of Primatology, 2000 Much has been written about insect damage to standing crops, but an area that has received little attention within agricultural development, conservation, and primatological literature is that of primates and the potential damage they can cause to farmers' fields.
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Conservation & Society, 2021 Worldwide, subsistence farmers have expressed concerns about food shortage due to crop raiding by wildlife. We investigated the effects of crop-raiding on homestead food security of subsistence farmers on the edge of the Hluhluwe Game Reserve, South ...
Tlou D Raphela, Neville Pillay
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