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Trade-offs between benefits and costs of forest proximity: farmers' practices and strategies regarding tree-crop integration and ecosystem disservices management

Ecology and Society, 2020
The impact of ecosystem disservices is among the issues that farmers have to consider in management of livelihoods and local landscapes. We investigated distinct practices developed within local communities in tree-crop integration and strategies to ...
Mulatu Osie, Sileshi Nemomissa, Simon Shibru, Gemedo Dalle   +3 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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Perceptions and realities of elephant crop raiding and mitigation methods

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, Isabel Schaal, Leah Cass, Kiri Peirce, Olivia Sussman, Ashley Grueser, Ellie Wachtel, Hayley Adams, Krissie Clark, Hannes J. König, John Kioko   +10 more
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Human-elephant conflict in the African rainforest landscape: crop-raiding situations and damage mitigation strategies in rural Gabon

Frontiers in Conservation Science
While 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, Mayuko Nomoto, Saeko Terada, Christian Mikolo Yobo, Hervé Roland Memiaghe, Hervé Roland Memiaghe, Guy-Max Moussavou   +6 more
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Commentary: Wildlife Tourism as Crop Protection? Double-goal Provisioning and the Transvaluation of the Macaque in Postwar Japan

Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017
Human–wildlife interfaces are often sites of friction and conflict in the form of crop and livestock depredations that can lead to negative local attitudes towards the animals responsible.
John Knight
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From forest to farm: systematic review of cultivar feeding by chimpanzees--management implications for wildlife in anthropogenic landscapes.

PLoS ONE, 2012
Crop-raiding is a major source of conflict between people and wildlife globally, impacting local livelihoods and impeding conservation. Conflict mitigation strategies that target problematic wildlife behaviours such as crop-raiding are notoriously ...
Kimberley J Hockings, Matthew R McLennan
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An update on crop-raiding by elephants at Bia Conservation Area, Ghana from 2004 to 2006

Pachyderm, 2008
The study updates the post 2004 elephant crop-raiding situation around Bia Conservation Area (BCA). This was done through an analysis of data on elephant damage from crop-raiding report forms completed for all raids occurring between 2004 and 2006 at ...
Samuel Oppong, Emmanuel Danquah, Moses Sam   +2 more
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Do cattle determine elephant distribution in the Red Volta Valley of northern Ghana?

Pachyderm, 2002
Elephants in the northeastern Ghana border area adjacent Burkina Faso move along the Red Volta River Valley raiding crops enroute, and routinely cross back and forth between the countries.
Moses Sam, Charles Haizel, Richard Barnes   +2 more
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An assessment of human-elephant conflict in Manas National Park, Assam, India

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2009
An assessment of human-elephant conflict was carried out in the fringe villages around Manas National Park, Assam during 2005-06. The available forest department conflict records since 1991 onwards were also incorporated during analysis.
N.K. Nath, B.P. Lahkar, N. Brahma, S. Dey, J.P Das, P.K. Sarma, B.K. Talukdar   +6 more
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An experimental test of community‐based strategies for mitigating human–wildlife conflict around protected areas

Conservation Letters, 2020
Natural habitats are rapidly being converted to cultivated croplands, and crop‐raiding by wildlife threatens both wildlife conservation and human livelihoods worldwide. We combined movement data from GPS‐collared elephants with camera‐trap data and local
Paola S. Branco, Jerod A. Merkle, Robert M. Pringle, Lucy King, Tosca Tindall, Marc Stalmans, Ryan A. Long   +6 more
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