Crop damage by primates: quantifying the key parameters of crop-raiding events. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Human-wildlife conflict often arises from crop-raiding, and insights regarding which aspects of raiding events determine crop loss are essential when developing and evaluating deterrents. However, because accounts of crop-raiding behaviour are frequently
Graham E Wallace, Catherine M Hill
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Crop diversity and susceptibility of crop fields to elephant raids in eastern Okavango Panhandle, northern Botswana [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Elephants frequently raid crops within their ranges in Africa and Asia. These raids can greatly impact agricultural productivity and food security for farmers.
Tiroyaone A. Matsika +7 more
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Environmental factors induced crop raiding by wild Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) in the Eastern Economic Corridor, Thailand [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Crop raiding are an increasing concern in wildlife conservation. This study identified the environmental factors that cause wild Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) to enter sub-urban and rural areas and share resources with humans in the Eastern Economic ...
Maneepailin Wettasin +5 more
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Do topography and fruit presence influence occurrence and intensity of crop-raiding by forest elephants (Loxodonta africana cyclotis)? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Crop damage by forest elephants (Loxodonta africana cyclotis) and the resulting human-elephant conflict are issues of great concern for both the conservation of the species and the protection of rural livelihoods in Central Africa.
Steeve Ngama +7 more
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Quantifying the nutritional and income loss due to crop raiding in rural African subsistence farming community in South Africa [PDF]
Jàmbá, 2021 Globally, crop damage by wildlife contributes to food insecurity through direct loss of food and income. We investigated the calories lost and potential economic impact of crop raiding to subsistence homesteads abutting the Hluhluwe Game Reserve and ...
Tlou D. Raphela, Neville Pillay
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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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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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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
Patrick I Chiyo +2 more
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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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