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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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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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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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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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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.
Webber, Catherine +3 more
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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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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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Pachyderm, 2020 Elephant crop raiding causes food losses to subsistence farmers in the eastern Okavango Panhandle in Botswana. This study evaluated the effectiveness of using alternative crops such as groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.), cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp), safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) and chilli (Capsicum frutescens) as a strategy to reduce ...
Tiroyaone A Matsika +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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