Can zoo enclosures inform exclosure design for crop‐raiding primates? A preliminary assessment [PDF]
African Journal of Ecology, 2016 Caroline Howlett, Russell A. Hill
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Parks, people and pixels: evaluating landscape effects of an East African national park on its surroundings [PDF]
, 2010 Landscapes surrounding protected areas, while still containing considerable biodiversity, have rapidly growing human populations and associated agricultural development in most of the developing world that tend to isolate them, potentially reducing their
Binford, Elizabeth +7 more
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Population structure and demography of Myanmar’s conflict elephants
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021 Despite containing the largest extent of unfragmented landscape in the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) range, Myanmar has high levels of human–elephant conflict.
Kris Budd +6 more
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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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