A nationwide survey of crop-raiding by elephants and other species in Gabon
Pachyderm, 1996 Gabon harbours one of the largest elephant populations in Africa, and since subsistence agriculture is practised near the forest edges crop raiding by elephants as well as other wild animal species is common.
Sally Lahm
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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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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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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 Across the globe, crop-raiding has been known to have a significant impact on subsistence farmers livelihoods in developing countries. However, the relationship between crop-raiding and food security of small-scale farmers is not well-studied.
Tlou D. Raphela +2 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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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 ...
Hill, Catherine M.
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Agroforestry trees for improved food security on farms impacted by wildlife crop raiding in Kenya
Trees, Forests and People, 2021 Human-wildlife conflicts are a threat to livelihoods throughout Africa, including Kenya. A major source of human-wildlife conflict is crop raiding, which can seriously impact livelihoods and household food security through crop destruction and income ...
Amy Quandt
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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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Exploring the effects of spatial autocorrelation when identifying key drivers of wildlife crop-raiding. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2014 AbstractFew universal trends in spatial patterns of wildlife crop‐raiding have been found. Variations in wildlife ecology and movements, and human spatial use have been identified as causes of this apparent unpredictability. However, varying spatial patterns of spatial autocorrelation (SA) in human–wildlife conflict (HWC) data could also contribute. We
Songhurst A, Coulson T.
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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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