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Beehive fence deters crop‐raiding elephants [PDF]
African Journal of Ecology, 2009 AbstractPrevious work has shown that African elephantsLoxodonta africanawill avoid African honeybeesApis mellifera scutellata. Here we present results from a pilot study conducted to evaluate the concept of using beehives to mitigate elephant crop depredation.
King, L +3 more
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Remote Sensing, 2020 Crop raiding by wild boars is a growing problem worldwide with potentially damaging consequences for rural dwellers’ cooperation with conservation policies.
Madeline Giefer, Li An
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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 patterns of solitary and social groups of red-tailed monkeys on cocoa pods in Uganda [PDF]
, 2012 Crop damage by wildlife is a very prevalent form of human-wildlife conflict adjacent to protected areas, and great economic losses from crop raiding impede efforts to protect wildlife.
Baranga, D +3 more
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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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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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Profiling unauthorized natural resource users for better targeting of conservation interventions [PDF]
, 2015 Unauthorized use of natural resources is a key threat to many protected areas. Approaches to reducing this threat include law enforcement and integrated conservation and development (ICD) projects, but for such ICDs to be targeted effectively, it is ...
Aharikundira M +13 more
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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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