Feedback effect of crop raiding in payments for ecosystem services. [PDF]
Ambio, 2019 Payments for ecosystem services (PES) may alter dynamics in coupled human and natural systems, producing reciprocal feedback effects on socioeconomic and environmental outcomes. As forests recover following China's two nation-wide PES programs, wildlife-related crop raiding has been increasingly affecting rural people's livelihoods.
Chen X, Zhang Q, Peterson MN, Song C.
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Human-elephant conflict in the African rainforest landscape: crop-raiding situations and damage mitigation strategies in rural Gabon [PDF]
Frontiers in Conservation ScienceWhile the conservation of forest elephants is a global concern, human-elephant conflict (HEC), especially crop-raiding by elephants, is a serious threat to both human livelihoods and conservation efforts.
Naoki Matsuura +6 more
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The efficacy of interventions to protect crops from raiding elephants [PDF]
Ambio, 2021 AbstractBoth African elephants (Loxodonta spp.) and the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) across their range come into conflict with people because of their crop-raiding behavior, which presents profound impediments to farmer livelihoods. In response, a series of interventions, designed to reduce elephant crop raiding have been applied.
Robert A. Montgomery +5 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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Ecology of crop raiding elephants
Pachyderm, 1998 This three year monitoring study examined the ecology of bull elephants which raid crops in the area adjacent to Sengwa Wildlife Research Area (SWRA). The multi-disciplinary approach included information on human settlement patterns and socio-economic ...
Ferrel Osborn
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Elephant crop-raiding and human–elephant conflict in Cambodia: crop selection and seasonal timings of raids [PDF]
Oryx, 2011 AbstractElephants are threatened globally by habitat loss, poaching and accelerating levels of human–elephant conflict. ForElephas maximusin Cambodia, crop raiding underlies this conflict. Understanding the timing of raids and selection of crops can help design locally appropriate mitigation and management strategies.
C. Elizabeth Webber +3 more
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Livestock predation, crop raiding, and community attitudes towards sustainable wildlife conservation in and around Mankira Forest, Southwest Ethiopia [PDF]
BMC Ecology and EvolutionCrop raiding and livestock predation negatively impact the views of the local community towards wildlife conservation. Farmers across the African continent, especially those in rural regions, incur financial losses as a result of crop raiding and ...
Birhanu Asaye +2 more
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The influence of life history milestones and association networks on crop-raiding behavior in male African elephants. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Factors that influence learning and the spread of behavior in wild animal populations are important for understanding species responses to changing environments and for species conservation. In populations of wildlife species that come into conflict with
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Treating crop-raiding elephants with aspirin
Pachyderm, 2002 In this opinion piece the author notes 'Most attempts to tackle cases of elephant crop raiding are searches for an effective palliative - an aspirin for that particular situation.' He suggests that the elephants (of course unless they are eliminated ...
Richard Barnes
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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 +10 more
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