Perceptions and realities of elephant crop raiding and mitigation methods [PDF]
Conservation Science and Practice, 2021 Crop raiding by African elephants (Loxodonta africana) jeopardizes human livelihoods and undermines conservation efforts. Addressing this issue is particularly important in subsistence farms adjacent to protected areas and requires assessing the ...
Christian Kiffner +2 more
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Testing the Effectiveness of the “Smelly” Elephant Repellent in Controlled Experiments in Semi-Captive Asian and African Savanna Elephants [PDF]
Animals, 2023 Crop-raiding by elephants is one of the most prevalent forms of human–elephant conflict and is increasing with the spread of agriculture into wildlife range areas.
Marion R. Robertson +7 more
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Human-black bear conflict: crop raiding by Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2022 Asiatic black bear has long been in conflict with human beings crop raiding is a major cause of this conflict frequently noted in South Asia. Crops raided by black bears affected by temporal, spatial and anthropogenic attributes. Insight in this conflict
U. Ali +14 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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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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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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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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Usage of Specialized Fence-Gaps in a Black Rhinoceros Conservancy in Kenya [PDF]
, 2016 Fencing is increasingly used in wildlife conservation. Keeping wildlife segregated from local communities, while permitting wildlife access to the greater landscape matrix is a complex task.
Davidson, Zeke +4 more
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